Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. I've chosen to raise money for Scottish Austism as they are a fantastic charity supporting families in Scotland living with autism. My darling nephew Cole is autistic and the support from Scottish Austism is invaluable.

My challenge for 2012 is to sign up for and run 12 races. This has been inspired by my lovely running friends at Up and Running Online http://www.upandrunningonline.org/ who have been with me through my whole running journey.

I DID IT!!! I ran 12 races and managed to run 10k in under 60 minutes! I also completed the 5x50 challenge :) Thank you so much for everyone who has sponsored me so far - please sponsor me if you haven't done so already and help me raise money for Scottish Autism.

Some of the 12 races are organised by specific charities so I will be supporting them too on separate pages and you can choose where you would prefer to sponsor me (or even better, on all of them! :P). Thanks so much in advance for your support for these deserving and special charities.

Here is my list of races:

1. Sunday March 4th Edinburgh Meadows Marathon 5.6k (43:22, 5.49k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/73578922
2. Sunday April 1st Spring Kilamathon Scotland 6.55k (49:24, 6.87k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/78854755
3. Saturday April 28th RSPB Flight of Fancy 5k (29:58)
http://www.justgiving.com/iantheRSPB
4. Sunday May 6th Julia Jones Running Festival 10.5k (76:35, 10.24k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/86137192
5. Sunday May 13th Glasgow Women's 10k (81:21, 10.46k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/87732853
6. Sunday May 27th Edinburgh Marathon Relay 8.85k (65:06, 8.92k)
http://www.justgiving.com/teamlts
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/91001928
7. Sunday June 17th Edinburgh Race for Life 10k (62:00)
https://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/iantherace7
8. Sunday 26th August Paisley Vision 10k (76:44, 10.02k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/112784242
9. Sunday September 2nd Glasgow Great Scottish Run 10k (73:47, 10.07k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/114575239
10. Sunday September 30th Autumn Kilamathon Scotland 6.55k (46:58, 6.81k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/121581058
11. Sunday October 7th Bupa Great Edinburgh Run 10k (74:53, 10.14k)
http://runkeeper.com/user/ianthe/activity/123206513
12. Saturday November 10th Glasgow MoRun 10k (57:55)

Other fun-runs:

1. Speed of Light, Thursday 16th August 3-5k (This was amazing!)
2. Santa Run 3k (TBA)

I've also signed up for the 5x50 challenge which runs from the 9th of September to the 28th of October - run, walk or cycle 5kms a day for 50 days. This is going to be tough! http://5x50.co.uk/challenger/ianthe-hind

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

If you'd rather not sign up to JustGiving, you can donate by text message: Send "EYES88 £X" to 70070 where £X could be £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10. Easy peasy.

So please dig deep and donate now.