Swim 1.2 miles, Bike 56miles, Run 13.1miles,  and how every £1 you give = 6 months of smiles.

7 years ago me and my brother made a bold last minute attempt at an Ironman 70.3. With only 3 months training and zero triathlon experience we had set ourselves up for a right mess of a day. I lost my goggles in the lake with over a mile left to swim. Tim kindly shared his pair with me but ending up swallowing so much lake water he spent most of the cycle throwing up in roadside porta-loos. 

6 hours into the race we arrived at the end of the bike course, tired and bloodied we found our poor mother, worried sick having seen the elderly competitors come in a good 40 minutes before us. We had gone way past the cut off time and were not allowed to continue to the half marathon.  

 So now in 2015 I will take my vengeance on this ironman thing,  but fundamentally  my reasons for participating have shifted (and so too I hope will my performance) Now it's about changing lives.

To reach my goal of £1000 for Smile Train would mean 7 children can have cleft lip surgery.  It is the gift of a smile that will change that persons life forever . Fittingly I have started this journey in The land of Smiles (Thailand) and hope to finish it in t June 2015 in the UK, where people sometimes smile. What I love about Smile Train is that the impact they make is direct and measurable. So you can know the impact you will have had on a child's life.

£150 = Surgery for one child, that's the life of that person, and everyone they smile at changed for the better. 

£50 = 1/3 Surgery, so that means you would be directly responsible for about 25 years of smiling time (if they live another 75 years. 75/3=25!)

£15 =  Thats 7.5 years of smile time, or something like that.

Bless you all for reading this far. And Thank you so much for your kindness and continued friendship. 

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