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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 [...] 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 [...] On Saturday 5th June 2010, we kicked off our training preperations with a 9 mile hike in the Cotswolds. We both put our equipment, boots, and legs to the test and completed the walk in approx 4 hours. Happily, we completed this with out too many issues, other than the odd blister! We have now [...] 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 [...] A quick update for April 2010. We have now exceeded the £500.00 mark for the Institute of Cancer Research UK, and now have 180 fans on our face-book page. Thank you once again to everyone for your support to date. Please remember you can make a huge difference by helping us spread the word amongst your friends and families. Myself [...] Recently completed 10 miles in my “new best friends”, (yes the boots!!) and no blisters which is great news! Its great to see the word of our challenge is spreading, and we have just hit the 170 mark on our fan page on face book. Both myself and Steve are busy securing prizes for some of our future planned [...] With less than a year to go until our challenge, our training & preperation is already well under way. We have been busy in recent months creating as much awareness for our campaign as possible and discussing fundraising ideas. That all said, there is a planned trip for a weekend in Snowdonia in July to break [...] |
 "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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