Sooooo, I'm running the Great West Run (13.1 miles of intense struggle) on May 1st!

Now those of you that know me will be thinking 'Blimey?! Why is Rach, a lazy, slack-jawed, malingerer, doing a half-marathon?' A good question, with an even better answer; I am hoping to get training and then raise a decent amount of money for Amnesty International, an amazing human rights charity that I have been really involved in over the past year or so.

Amnesty does brilliant work to help protect people who would otherwise be forgotten; people who are smothered by poverty, or corrupt governments, or unjust legal systems. It has worked to draw attention to issues such as Guantanamo bay and illegal renditions, violence against women, and corporate irresponsibility in developing countries. Find out about more of their work here :)  http://www.amnesty.org.uk/

A very good cause indeed then. So please donate generously, even if it is just because you think it would be hilarious to picture me publicly dragging my feeble body across the finishing line after 13.1 miles ;) 

Thanks guys!

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