<div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have done it, 1000km and 600m completed on 30th December 2011. I would like to say it was easy, but it was much harder than I thought it was going to be. </span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To those who have already sponsored me, thankyou so very very much, for those that haven&rsquo;t please do, every donation helps..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;quot;Berlin Sans FB&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Background to the challenge</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like many people I like to excercise, and like many people I struggle with the motivation to keep me training through the long winter months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that in mind, I decided to set myself a running target for the whole of 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The distance had to be challenging, but achievable without eating into family life too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thousand kilometres sounded like a good round number.</span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To provide extra motivation, I decided to use the challenge to raise money for charity, and asked the most inspirational woman in my life, my mum, for her choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She not surprisingly chose the British Lung Foundation.</span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why was she so inspirational and why the British Lung Foundation?</span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaging running as fast as you can for as long as you can, your lungs are burning, your head is pounding, you can barely see for the black dots in front of your eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now imagine trying to live your life when you feel like that every second of every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mum not only did that, but many people who met her, failed to realise she was ill, let alone the severity of the disease she battled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she was six, she like many other children caught measles, but unlike most children, it left my mum fighting for her life and with the degenerative lung disease bronchiectasis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A disease which slowly eats away at your lungs, making it difficult to breath and poisening your body with carbon dioxide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Unfortunately my mum died suddenly in January this year, just as I started the challenge. I am now more determined than ever to complete the 1000km, not only for me but for her, and raise &pound;1000 for the British Lung Foundation, so that other people with these dreadful deseases can also lead a normal life.</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thankyou for your Support</span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Caroline</span></span></em></p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div>