On January 27, 2013 I will be running Tough Guy, an extreme endurance race which involves  running long distance over what can only be described as ‘aggressive’ obstacles ranging from 30ft structures, underwater tunnels, and fields of fire. Click here: http://www.toughguy.co.uk/ and watch the video on the home page to find get a very small taste of what is involved.

Why am I doing this and why should you donate?!

Firstly, I’m running this because it will be a true test of fitness, grit and determination. Can I back my chat and prove how tough I really am?  But secondly, and far more importantly, I will be raising money alongside around 100 other Durham University Charities Kommittee (DUCK) students for the charity Help For Heroes.

 

Help For Heroes is a charity which raises money to provide practical and direct assistance to those Service men and women who have been wounded serving their country on operations around the world. Since its inception, Help For Heroes has raised millions of pounds to assist those to whom we owe a great deal. Some of you will be aware of how important this is for me.

 

Some of the projects facilitated by Help For Heroes are the building and funding of Recovery Centres around the country for wounded service people; the providing of a Quick Reaction Fund to immediately assist those in need of money or equipment to improve their quality of life; alongside assisting the ‘Battle Back’ programme which “uses Adaptive Adventure Training and Sports Rehabilitation to help seriously wounded Service personnel gain independence and confidence to focus on what they can achieve, rather than what they can’t.” For more information about Help For Heroes and to better understand why donating to my fundraiser is so important please, please visit www.helpforheroes.org.uk

My Fundraising target is only £200 although I would love to raise far, far much more for what is a truly important and selfless charity. Also it’d be nice to know I’m going to be suffering the frozen hellish experience of Tough Guy for a healthy pot of money that will do a lot of good!

So please donate, as much or as little as you can- I’m sure watching the donations rise will encourage me to train ever harder as January 27 approaches…