Thanks for visiting my just giving page. This year I am 40 on the 17th of September, with that and along with a couple of other things that have happened over the last few months I thought it was the right time to an event which I have had going round in my head for a couple of years (must stop thinking too much !!), for a charity which I believe carries out great work. The Charity is Barnardo’s, which helps young people some of which are in a similar position to which I was in when I was 13. 

Fortunately for me I had family and friends who supported me at this time, a lot of who I will be eternally grateful to, but there are a lot of young people who aren’t as fortunate and that is one of the areas where Barnardo’s step in (as well as many other areas).
So following negotiations with my family I have come up with the following challenge….On the 7th of September I will start the first stage of my challenge, I will be running 5 Marathons in 5 days to get me across to Newcastle, this will be over Whinlatter, Hartside, Nenthead (basically the C2C route). The weekend I get there is the Great North Run so I will slip that in while I am there ! Following this on the Monday I will get on my bike and do the Coast to Coast (the wrong way) back to Whitehaven and finish on the 16th of September, the last day of my 30s!!
For the record I have never run a Marathon, run over mountains or hills which will make the training and the completing of this even harder.

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