Everybody knows that exercise sucks and anybody who has seen my emerging dadbod knows that I haven't been doing much of it. What doesn't suck is The Lord of The Rings and so I'm marrying the two together to try and make exercise a bit less bad and my tum a bit less round when I actually get married. 

When the Hobbit's departed the shire on their intrepid journey they travelled a respectable  660 miles in 6months in the effort to destroy the one ring. I am seeking to emulate that journey in a similar time frame because lets face it I probably have a similar stride to those short legged travellers. Seeing as I currently can't run more than a mile before wanting to throw up a lung I thought I might as well raise some money in the process. 

I plan to make up the distance by walking, running, probably a bit of crawling and more than a little crying but in the time will have covered the cumulative distance of 25 marathons which will be 25 more than I've ever done before. 

The charity I've chosen in the Stop MS group of the Mulitple Sclerosis Society. More than any Dark Lord with a semi-sentient piece of jewellery MS is a truly evil disease that we currently have too little at our disposal to treat. All money raised will go to MS society who use to help fund new and exciting research that has the potential to transform the treatments we have to tackle this disease and potentially halt its occurrence completely. They also support people already suffering from it on their journeys which are far more challenging than the one I am proposing to undertake. Any and all small donations are welcome and in return you'll be sure to receive some sweaty updates from me as I lament my life choices and lack of cardiovascular baseline. 

I'm tracking my progress via the conqueror virtual challenge series so my pain (and purchase) is contributing to the planting of 25 trees and efforts to stop plastic bottles reaching the oceans (I want the journey to the undying lands when this causes me to die inside like Frodo to be free of plastics)