This was posted to me today on Facebook by my friends Lara and Patrick - I know a fair few of you will want to back them. All for a good cause!
"We are about to do something very silly, on 4th November 2010 we will be running 60km from the Dolphin pool in Hisaronu to Dalaman airport. For those of you that have been to our little part of Turkey you will know that the route is far from flat so this really is a challenge. For those of you that like statistics or know the route, a full marathon would take us to the toll barriers at the Gocek tunnel (the last 5km being up hill), so anything beyond this is just pure madness......
We have set this target for ourselves inspired by Eddie Izzards multi marathon feat for Sport Aid. As many of you know we started running 2 years ago after being shamed into doing something about our fitness level by a couple in their late 50's. We started running at just 300m, which was all Lara could manage without reaching for her inhaler. We are now running 3 half marathon per week as training, in order to run in ambient temperature of less than 30 Celsius we do this at 5am.
We aim to raise £20,000, half to go towards the rehabilitation of Misha and Tom, 2 bottle nosed dolphins rescued from a large swimming pool in Hisaronu. These dolphins have been taken to a rehabilitation centre off the Turkish coast and are being looked after by the Born Free Foundation, we need in total to feed and medicate these glorious mammals some £150,000, and so we hope to help some way towards this total. The other half of the money we hope to raise for Roy Castle Cancer Research, this is a cause close to our hearts as Patrick smoked for many years. Patrick will have been smoke free for 3 years this November and we hope that he will not need to make use of the research carried out by this wonderful organisation, but many people will.
We are raising money through JustGiving.com, the links to our 2 charities are below, please dig deep into your pockets and help us raise money for 2 very worthy causes. You can give by clicking on one (or both) of the links below, the money goes straight to our chosen charities."
http://www.justgiving.com/mishaandtomhttp://www.justgiving.com/60kmLara & Patrick's Dolphin Dash
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