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Well….only a few more days to go – 9 in fact – before we jet off to China to complete our challenge! Our last event - the Charity Dog Race Night #2 on 23rd September – raised £180.00 towards our target, and we have now more or less completed all of the training we can considering [...] Well, its getting close! So far, we have raised over £4,300 for the Institute of Cancer Research UK – please help us in hitting our target by using the Just Giving link on the left to make a donation online. We are now only approx. 6 weeks away from jetting off to China for our trek! The [...] Our training and preperation continued for our Great Wall Hike, with a recent trip to Snowdon in North Wales. This was an excellent opportunity for us to not only expose ourselves to some relatively similar terrain, but also to gauge of overall fitness levels as well as making sure our kit was up to the job. [...] We have been busy in the past few weeks making some changes to our website, and you will now see on the right hand side a new style Facebook application which we hope will deliver more useful information, and enable our supporters to interact with us more freely. In addition, you will also see a new Twitter [...] I am delighted to announce that my wife Nicola is pregnant, with a due date of April 15th 2011. A picture of the 14 week scan is here on the right, and mother and baby are doing well. However, this does have a negative impact on our plans! With a due date of April 15th 2011, [...] July has been a busy month, both in terms of our ongoing training and fundraising. We have recently completed our second hiking weekend, this time covering well over 10 miles in approx 6 hours. Our next planned training event is in Snowdon during September so we are really now starting to ramp up our training. In addition, [...] Over the past weekend, I continued my training for our Great Wall Hike challenge by spending 2 days in Snowdonia, climbing the summit on Saturday with my wife Nicola, and close friends Hannah Harrison and Dom Richards. We managed to get up and down the mountain in approx 4 and a half hours, which is a [...] We are now over the £600.00 mark for the Institute of Cancer Research UK – thank you once again to everyone for your support to date. On the weekend of June 5th we will be going out on a 20 mile hike to break in some of our new equipment and to put it all through its paces so to speak [...] Well I have got my walking boots, and it’s been fun breaking them in! You should see the state of my feet!! At least I have a year to get used to the pain! Steve already has his boots from his “3 Peaks Challenge” last year (and is still getting over the blisters!), so we are good to go [...] |
 "Preview of our game up next on Gillette Soccer Saturday...wonder if we will get a balanced opinion with 2 ex goons scousers on panel?!" "Some people?! Buy something on eBay & agree to collect apprx mid day & they whine that you are early @ 1150am and tell you to wait! Dicks!" "Should really get out and about.....but the thought of a cold car and cold shops is not doing it for me! sodthat"
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