For some reason I can’t quite remember, I've decided to do a series of alphabetically themed challenges this year* to raise as much money as possible for the World Development Movement.

Read how I get on: http://loooceyabcde.wordpress.com/

A: Amsterdam marathon, 21 October 2012 – 26 miles - done

B: Brighton from London cycle ride, 21 April 2012 - 60 miles - done

C: Crystal Palace triathlon,  Swim: 750m, Bike: 20km, Run: 5km - done in 2012, doing again on 19 May 2013.

D: Dunwich dynamo, 30 June – 1 July 2012 – 120 miles cycling overnight from London, arriving at the Suffolk coast by the next morning - done

E: East London half marathon 14 April 2013 -done

H: Hever Castle Triathlon - sprint distance (800m swim, 40k cycle, 5 k run)

L: London Triathlon - (1500m swim, 40k cycle, 10k run) - done

R: Richmond park duathlon – 9th September 2013 – Classic 55k (10km run, 40km bike, 5km run) - done 

S - SportPursuit Swim Series 1500m open water swim in London Fields reservoir

V: Victoria Docks/ Virgin London Triathlon - 28th July 2013 -this is the big one for this year, its my first Olympic distance, so as well as the 40km Bike / 10km Run, I've got to  do 1500m Open Water swim, I'm terrified! -done

W - Wild swimming –  wild swimming every month of 2012 -done!!

X - Xtreme Xmas swim - 100m dressed as Father Christmas in Brockwell Lido on 15th Dec 2012

Y - Some yoga based challenge that I haven't thought up yet!

Z - Sea swimming in Zandvoort in October 2012

 

More on WDM: World Development Movement is a global anti-poverty campaigning organisation. You might not have heard of them, but here's a few reasons why I hope you'll support them by sponsoring me. 

1.  They're a little organisation that does great things on low budgets so you know your money is well spent. They don’t have big budgets or a famous brand , but instead have real impact through mobilising supporters and innovative tactics.

2. Rather than putting a 'sticking plaster' on things that have gone wrong, they campaign to actually change the systems and structures that keep people and countries poor.

Current campaigns you'd be helping support include ending banks speculating on food which is pushing up food prices and pushing the poorest deeper into hunger and poverty, and ending climate debt where poor countries risk being trapped into new and dangerous debt to pay for the costs of climate change, largely caused by the rich countries. 

So please dig deep and donate now! Thanks in advance. 

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