Ladies and Gents; The cause is Mind, a fantastic charity that supports people with mental health problems. The event is Birmingham Half Marathon. That other chums, namely, Joe Randall, Ed Geater and Charlie Geater will be running alongside me / ahead of me, also running for their own charities - https://www.justgiving.com/edgeatercharliegeater/. My inspiration for asking for donations is the passing of my friend Josh Sutherland, who tragically took his own life earlier this year.

At 16st.5lbs I'm built for speed ;) and not long distance running -13.2miles. Although I've got a few of these half maras in the bag before, I'm now older and fatter so this will certainly be a challenge for me. This has been the first time I've asked for you lovely people to reach into your pockets and support me. I really hope that we can make a good dent into the target and give the bigger group #withjoshinmind a good boost to reaching its target.

Many thanks for taking the time to read this, and please please please take two more minutes to donate as much as you can.