In May I'm running home. It's around 100 miles of running, with a Ryanair flight halfway to help me over the Irish Sea. The plan is to not stop, but to run, walk or indeed crawl 100 miles in about 28 hours, from my home in the UK to my family home in Ireland. 

I'v never run anywhere near this distance before so I'm quite excited and nervous to see how it pans out. I know I can do the first 50, it's the last 50 that will be interesting. I've been training for a while for the physical and mental pain that comes with running non-stop through the night. It's not an organised event with lots of people and it's not to save on the bus fare from Dublin. It's on pretty terrible roads in the dark the whole way and my only comfort in the 24-28 hours is a seat on a Ryanair flight. All in all it's an awful idea, but it's something I've wanted to try for a while; my own personal challenge.

It's also an enormous opportunity to raise money for a good cause. And, raising money for charity assists with the permission slip I need from Gem to disappear for a few days and come back a broken man. 

So Im going to raise what I can through this project and donate it to the homeless. Every day I see people sleeping rough;  early morning cycling to the station in Wales to the streets and shop doors I run past in London. But, I have always ignored what I saw, subconsciously assuming it was somehow their choice, that they could be somewhere else but chose not to be. So I run on by. 

But this winter, on one particular early run to work I counted 24 people sleeping in terrible conditions in the heart of the city. It was before 6am and it was absolutely freezing. I mean sub zero - proper cold. These poor souls do not have a choice or an option to go elsewhere because if they did they definitely would have taken the option on that dark, cold, wet and freezing Wednesday morning. 

I'm going to attempt to run home, call the project Home to Home, and raise what I can for the Homeless through Crisis UK. Crisis offer homeless people one to one support to help them rebuild their lives, find a purpose and find a home. With everything going on at the moment they have never been busier or more reliant on donations, so this feels like the best place to focus the funds. 

To raise a little more i'm going to run the London Marathon as my last training run in 3 weeks. Run round the streets that earlier that day would have had hundreds of people sleeping rough, getting through another night , but hopefully with some support from us lot might have a chance of a brighter future.

So please support the Homeless by donating to Crisis UK below and if i'm still alive in May i'll buy you a pint!