On 23rd November 2011, having lost 5st earlier that year, through diet and cycling, and having just run my first 10K race, I decided to try running at least 5km every day for a week. 

At the end of that week, I was having a great time, so decided to try running throughout December 2011, and started to connect with other runners online, particularly through Twitter. 

Since then, my 1 week experiment has snowballed a bit, and by the time I reached my first year of running every day, or '#runstreak' as it's known in the Twitter world, I was totally hooked and I'd run my first half marathon, marathon and ultra marathon, clocking up nearly 3000 miles of running in the process. 

It wasn't just the running itself that had me hooked though, it was the inspiring new people I was meeting through running, and the amazing new places that running was taking me. 

On Monday 18th August 2014, I'll reach the landmark of having run every day for 1000 days, and I'm going to be marking the occasion by attempting my longest and toughest ever run - 100km (62 miles) through the Peak District. I'll be very lucky to accompanied on this daunting challenge by several of my friends, some of whom I've met with through running, and others who I've known for a long time, and who I've reconnected with through a shared appreciation of just how much fun running together can be. 

To mark the occasion, I'd also love to raise some money for a charity that's close to my heart: Beating Bowel Cancer. 

My Dad is a survivor of Bowel Cancer, and having seen what he went through when fighting it, I'd love to make a small contribution to the great work that Beating Bowel Cancer do in raising awareness and funding research.

Thanks for reading this, and many thanks for any donations!