Thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

My name's Ben, and I suppose my story is like too many others - we all know, have known, and will know people going through the horrors of suffering from cancer. It's indiscriminate, it's cruel, and it takes so much from so many. The suffering is constant, and global - but it's also local. 

That's why I'm trying to raise as much money as I can for FORCE Cancer Charity. They undertake invaluable cancer research, and they also provide superb support and treatment for cancer sufferers in and around Exeter.

Their work needs to continue, and they deserve support - and in my case, because I'm an idiot, I decided that meant running 500 kilometres in a month. 

That's just over 16 kilometres a day, every day, for 31 days. I usually manage about 16 kilometres a week, so it's a 7x step up for me - but they're steps I'm going to climb. Metaphorically, anyway.  

I won't be including any metres made by me pottering around the house - the aim is to run the entirety of the 500 kilometres, with Strava data linked to Justgiving to prove it (assuming my technical skills stretch to managing that). However, if I do suffer minor injuries along the way (I'm looking at you, blisters...), then I'll do properly measured walks to make up for whatever I can't run.    

I'll be providing some update messages along the way. Hopefully none of them will involve me having been hit by a truck; however, I am expecting to lose a lot of weight - so maybe the last few runs of the month will be a lot easier than the first few. Maybe.

All that remains is just to say thank you for taking the time to read this, and - hopefully - thank you for donating. FORCE are a great charity, and what they do really is priceless. So is your support.  

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. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.