Hands up who wants to sponsor me? Come on people, you know you want to.
I’m doing a challenge in May for the British Heart Foundation. Basically my gym has set up the challenge, you have to do a total of 31 kilometres in the 31 days of May using the various pieces of gym equipment. Now in my mind I consider 31 km to be not much of a challenge (to me personally), so to up the ante a little I’ve set myself the goal of doing 310km instead! That means going to the gym every day and grinding out 10 kilometres. To make it even more of a challenge I’m also taking away my option of using an exercise bike, so that means I have to cover 10km a day using only a combination of rowing machine, cross-trainer and treadmill. There is the very real possibility that I will do myself a mischief trying this, on my second practice run I was physically sick! Some people will call me stupid but this is just a natural thing for me (I’m naturally stupid), if people are going to be good enough to sponsor me then I’ve at least got to make it punishing. I will do it though, even if I have to crawl the last kilometre on the treadmill, I will do 310 km!
So why support me? The British Heart Foundation although British in name have a primary goal of seeing a world where people to not die prematurely from heart disease. They are right at the fore front in the research of cures for heart based defects and ailments. Research that is used globally. On a personal level my uncle died at the age of 44 from heart failure, as I break into my thirties it really has dawned on me that it was no age. From having the time of his life at my wedding (where he was an usher) to being buried 2 weeks later, completely out of the blue.
So each day I will go to the gym, do my exercise and then have it confirmed by an instructor. I’ll be doing regular updates on here of how I’m getting on (may scan my record sheet). So if anybody would like to sponsor me you can use the PayPal donate button below – any amount is very greatly appreciated!
If for some reason you sponsor me and I don’t complete what I’ve set out to do I will personally refund any donation and then contribute the entire amount to the British Heart Foundation myself.
Progress
| Date | Treadmill | Rowing | X-Trainer | Daily Total |
| 01/05 | 1.01 | 5 | 6.15 | 12.16 |
| 02/05 | 1.02 | 5 | 6.23 | 12.25 |
| 03/05 | 2.01 | 5 | 4.25 | 11.26 |
| 04/05 | 1.02 | 5 | 6.09 | 12.11 |
| 05/05 | 1.01 | 11.5 | 12.51 | |
| 06/05 | 1.02 | 10 | 11.02 | |
| 07/05 | 1.03 | 5 | 6.25 | 12.28 |
| 08/05 | 1.07 | 10 | 11.07 | |
| 94.63 | ||||
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