Welcome everyone to our special blog. This will chart our progress in all of our endeavours in raising money for the Alzheimer's Research UK.
Our first Charity Challengeis the Devizes to Westminster canoe race. A 125 mile round the clock non-stop event with 77 portages for both me and Enda in a K2 racing kayak. We will start on the Kennet & Avon canal then finish on the River Thames and by the time we reach the end, would have endured mental and physical anguish.There will be a whole host of entrants from the fastest, sub 15hours and 33min target through to us who just hope to complete the course, but will be extra pleased if we do it in under 24hours.
It is going to be a real test of endurance, mental toughness, technical ability and sheer hard work. We have heard stories of people getting hypothermic, sleep deprivation enduced hallucinations, exhaustion, blisters to name a few. However, both me and Enda are determined to push through this for the cause of Alheimer's Research UK.
I will post a bit of a story behind why we chose this charity a bit later, but for now this is it, the beginning of a quest of which we hope you will all follow and be able to give as much or as little as you can afford. I will keep you all posted with regular updates including pictures and videos of our progress for your entertainment.
Please also use the donate button at the right of the blog, also check out the Alzheimer's Research UK site by clicking on the logo to the left to read about what the money raised will go towards. Please use the facebook and twitter buttons too to get this blog out there far and wide.
For now here's a little bit of footage of us completing Waterside A last Sunday, our first ever K2 marathon event, but this was only a mere 13.5miles
I hope you all find this as interesting as we do.
Craig and Enda
Please Sponsor this pair of Herberts, as this is an amazing difficult challenge for normally able people, but these two are special, I have been training them and it is not going to be easy for them. I can assure you that if they complete this challenge then they will deserve all the money you can afford to sponsor them. It is a tremendous task worthy of the cause.
ReplyDeleteThey have put a lot of hard work in to thier training, Blood Sweat and tears, although the tears have been from laughter, so far.
Fred
Cheers Fred, couldn't have put it better myself ;o)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your input, without your constant banter where would we be now ;o)
Wow! This sounds amazing! Good luck guys.
ReplyDeletePS- the video was so cool and I was on my toes to see if Noz was going to fall in the water!