What's it all about?

I set this blog up in 2010 so people could follow my progress as I prepared for my second challenge in aid of the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK; a three day biathlon which saw me run the Great North Run and the next day by a two day cycle to London from Newcastle.

I've made it my life's work to raise awareness of bowel cancer, the disease which robbed us of the greatest footballer to grace a football pitch and a disease I was tested for when I was 22 following a health scare.


This blog follows my training for the event, my thoughts and more importantly will allow you to follow my progress on the event.


With my new challenge I am hoping to raise £10,000 for the charity



Saturday 13 February 2010

And so it begins...

This has been something that has been playing on my mind for a while now.....I need a challenge. Some of you may remember back in the spring of 2007 I cycled to all 20 Premiership Football Grounds in aid of the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done especially as my training was hampered by illness to myself and close family members. I swore blind I would never do anything like that again.....

But even on the drive back home from London I was thinking "You know, I would like to do something like this again". And so, back in 2009 while out cycling I cycled past some joggers and that where the idea hit me. Enter the Great North Run, complete the half marathon on the Sunday and then on the Monday and Tuesday cycle from Newcastle United's St James' Park to West Ham United's Boleyn Ground.

I ran the idea past a few friends...they all looked at me like I had 3 heads. Funnily enough it was the same look they gave me back in 2006 when I decided to do the last event. So that was decided then.

Next was the charity. There were so many to choose from but my heart told me to do it for The Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK again. It's a chairty close to my heart both in terms of my love for football and for personal reasons. With this year being a world cup year, we are going through the usual build up and dreaming back to the iconic image of Bobby being hoisted up on the shoulders of his team mates on that wet day in July 1966. Despite that though Bobby was never honoured in the way he should have been so this is my way of honouring the Greatest.

If I can match the £3000 I raised in 2007 I will be delighted. I'd like to raise more than that but £3000 is what I'm aiming for.

So from now until September 2010 you can follow my preparations here, my thoughts on how things are going and progress being made to reach my target. If you want to help out at all whether it be in terms of spreading the word or donating football memorabilia for auction, please do not hesitate to drop me a line.

Viva Bobby Moore!
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