Payday

Yesterday was payday. That meant three things: 1. Drinks after work, 2. Sponsoring the amazing guys on their Arctic2Africa trip and 3. Signing up for some events over the next 15 months.

Feeling slightly worse for wear, I've spent this morning trawling the internet looking for inspiration. I've started off by picking a few running events as this is what I'm most comfortable with.

A good friend who I met in Ghana, Cat, had mentioned signing up to the Hadleigh Castle 10k run and what better way to start off my 15 months of challenges than with a friend! So that's July (Three Peaks Challenge), August (Hadleigh Castle 10k) and October (Great Birmingham Run) sorted.

Thinking ahead to January next year and the inevitable lack of money, I've decided to detox as one of the challenges I am setting myself. For the whole of January I will be giving up alcohol and caffeine - so while not as physical as the other challenges, still not an easy task as I'm sure most of you will agree.

I'm still looking for more challenges so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. For now, I guess I'd better get back into the gym and cut down on the food and drink!

Please don't forget that all of this work is to raise money for The Raising Hope Foundation and you can sponsor me at any point between now and next October when we climb Kilimanjaro by using this link.