IT'S BACK ON!!!

Between 22 and 24 September 2025 I will be completing the challenge I had to withdraw from 2 years ago. I kept this page going so you will know if you already sponsored me.

My challenge still links back to our former friend and colleague "Taggy" who sadly died in 2022 and whose collar number was 1444.

I will be doing 1 Sprint class every 4 hours for 44 hours. For those who aren't familiar with Sprint - it's a 30 minute High Intensity Spinning class.

"Taggy" himself was a keen spin class attendee and the team at 3-1-5 gym in Lancaster have agreed for me to use their facilities where I am and "Taggy" was a member.

My charity is Team Ruby which is a charity set up by two serving Lancashire police officers, Nikki and John Marshall to support the Lily Foundation.

Their daughter Ruby Wren Marshall was born perfectly healthy on 24/02/21 and remained so until she was around 6 months old when she was found to be severely anaemic. Her bone marrow wasn't working well.

It would be a further 5 months until she was diagnosed with Pearsons Syndrome; a mass deletion of her mtDNA. This means some of her mitochondria in her cells (which provide the energy for the cells to work) do not work properly. As she grows the faulty mtDNA will start overpowering the healthy ones resulting in failure of her pancreas,  followed by liver, kidneys, eyes, ears, heart, muscles and her brain.

Science can and will beat this, but it needs to be sooner and not later for Ruby,  She just needs better batteries in her cells. And this fundraising event will help with this.

Thank you for your support