Dan Paton is crowdfunding
Iʼm raising £5,000 to the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at Nobles Hospital, IoM & Rebecca House Children's Hospice
- Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, UK
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Hi all.
Five years after the last fundraising challenge in memory of Sophie Moolman, we've decided to go again! Last time we amazingly raised over £10k for Rebecca House Children's hospice.
If you're keen to learn details of the 2019 challenge, how phenomenally tough it was (and give context on how crazy the next one is going to be), check the two videos found here.
Sophie would've turned 13 on NYD 2024 if not taken from us suddenly aged just 7 in March 2018 by Acute Myocarditis.
This latest challenge will push me far further than the last, with lots of other contributing fundraising events (raffles, cake bakes, sponsored walks etc.) to contribute to the final amount.
All proceeds will be split 50/50 between the SCBU / Neonatal unit of Noble Hospital IoM (who helped Sophie on her way into life) and Rebecca House Children's Hospice (who were there on her way out of life).
Please give what you can to these two fantastic causes, you can track my progress on the challenge and be kept informed of other fundraising events on this page.
My challenge
1) Run for 400 consecutive days (from Wed 20th Dec 2023 to Wed 22nd Jan 2025)
2) Run 3500 miles over the 400 days (on average 8.75 miles per day)
3) No 'easy cheats' (no walking, cycling or running on treadmills - all runs must be outside - rain, snow or shine)
4) Complete several big marathon and ultra-marathon events during the 400 days. Including pacing my eldest son Bailey to his first marathon in Paris in April 2024.
5) Run 4 marathons in 4 weeks in April (and Tokyo mazza in March!) - these being Brighton, Boston UK, Boston USA and London marathons. The latter will also see me complete my SECOND six-star major medal (having completed my first at Tokyo in March 2024!)
6) ** NEW (Nov 2024)** I HAVE PEOPLE JOINING ME! During my last 90 days, the legend that is Mark Hadfield has chosen to challenge himself and Run Every Day for 90 days! He's not 'just' doing a mile or 5km every day either! GO MARK!
Thanks for reading and please do join me on a run at any point, the company will be most welcome, pace doesn't matter.
All runs will be shown on my Strava page here - https://www.strava.com/athletes/11516605
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- 3 hrs ago
Dan Paton
3 hrs agoHi all! Long overdue challenge update time! After this weekends running in gale-force winds, and moving out of temp accom (hotel) into our new apartment, it's been a tiresome period. However, I've still managed to find time to run every day (I've ran on average 8.7 miles per day for over a year!!!!) and I have 31 days remaining and 280 miles to cover.....eek....crunch time! It's been a tough time, with full-time work, moving homes, and running every day in dark, wet, miserable conditions. So apologies if I've been cack company. Nearly done..
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- 1 month ago
Dan Paton
1 month agoSo...I'm going to do a challenge within a challenge this weekend! 😳😬 1) Sat 9am: Lytham Parkrun (target time of under 20 mins). 2) Sat 10am: Wesham 10km (target time of under 40 mins). 3) Sat 2pm: The final, and toughest, Red Rose XC League race at Marl Pitts, Rossendale (target is to finish in one piece). 4) Sun 10am: Run Myerscough 10-miler (target time of under 65 mins). 5) Run miles in between each race, to achieve the 61-mile minimum target for each week of the challenge.
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- 1 month ago
Dan Paton
1 month agoA MASSIVE thank you to everyone who has donated to the Sophie Rocks Again challenge, we've raised over £3k so far. 🫶 Progress update!!! I was over 120 miles behind where I needed to be by the half-way point around Mid July. This may not sound much, but when needing to run every day and a MINIMUM of 61 miles every WEEK, it's been so difficult making that back up. However after another 65+ mile week this week (huge thanks to several BRRs for the much needed company yesterday and today) I'm now just TEN miles behind with 59 days to go. 🤩
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Patrick Efekodo
Dec 22, 2024
This is just to support in any way I can. Very best wishes.
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Barry
Dec 16, 2024
£10.00
Pam
Dec 15, 2024
Keep up the great work Dan, you can complete this challenge!!
£30.00
Mark Hadfield
Dec 13, 2024
Keep going Dan. You are now on the home straight now. You’re smashing it!
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Julie Gale
Dec 12, 2024
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