<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page raising money for CF sufferers in memory of Sarah Murray.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out our blog page and follow our challange at:</strong></span></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.cfcharityfundraiser.blog.com">www.cfcharityfundraiser.blog.com</a> </strong></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">Those close to&nbsp;me will know myself, my fiancee Gill and our families, experienced a painful loss in July 2011 when Gill's cousin Sarah Murray sadly lost her battle against Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Following a double lung transplant approximately three years ago, Sarah developed&nbsp;chronic rejection from her transplant and the lasting effects regretably resulted in Sarah passing away - Sarah will be soley missed and we think about&nbsp;her every day.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">Sarah was a beautiful 26 year old, with an uncanny sense of humour (after all, she held the heart of Scotland within her) and all Sarah wanted was to help others and support those closest to her. She was like a 2nd sister to my fiancee Gill and her sister Lesley-Ann.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">Sarah was taken away from us far too soon, but offered so much to those with good health and those who were also suffering with CF.&nbsp;Sarah was a&nbsp;keen fund raiser herself, She was well known at the Freeman's hospital in Newcastle and Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">During Sarah's last hours, I pondered and prayed to be able to help her, but my questions could not be answered!</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">I want to doing something that will raise the profile of CF, raise lots of funds for those who are living with the condition, and hopefully assist with the development of medicine and technology to allow sufferers to live an able life and do all the things they wish to do. </span></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Both Gill and I&nbsp;are preparing to mountain bike 26 of Britains official trail centres in 26 weeks. Thats one ride ride for every year Sarah was with us. Each trail centre will consist of a minimum 8-10 mile ride with most incorporating anything between a 400ft - 2000ft hill climb. </span></strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The itinary&nbsp;is&nbsp;building, with just a few trails to add, please take a look below to see what we are taking on so far:</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Forest Of Dean (FODCA) - Red 3x 3mile loops</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em></em></strong><strong><em>Mendip Hills - Blue/Red 10miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Cannock Chase - Red 15miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Sherwood Forest - Blue/Red 12miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Quantock Hills - Blue 11.3miles </em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Haldon Forest - Blue/Red 12miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Thetford Forest Park - Red 11miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Whancliffe Woods - Red 10miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Dalby Forest - Red 23miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Coed y Brenin - Dragons Back, Red 18miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Coed y Brenin - Cyflym Coch, Red&nbsp;7miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Afan Forest - The&nbsp;Wall, Red 14miles</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Afan Forest - <span style="color: #000000;">Rheilffordd, Blue 14miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">CwnCarn - Red 9miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Glyncorrwg - Red 9miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Brechfa - </span><span style="color: #000000;">Red 12miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Queen Elizabeth Park Blue 17miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Swinley Forest - TBC</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Aston Hill - Red 2x 5miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Tarka Trail - Blue 37.5 miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Ashton Court Mansions - Blue 2 x 4miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><span style="color: #000000;">Fort William - Witches Trail Red 10miles</span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">The trails are graded, <span style="color: #0000ff;">Blue</span>: Intermidiate, <span style="color: #ff0000;">Red</span>: Hard and Black: Extreme.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">Like most CF sufferers, Sarah lived a lot of her life with limited lung capacity, shallow and fast breathing and gasping for air, these physiological responses will sum up pretty much how Gill and I&nbsp;will be feeling when we tackle these trail centres, but for ever breath we take, Sarah will be driving us both to complete the hill climbs and the miles.........</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">I hope you wish to sponsor this page, myself and Gill and allow us both to complete this challenge and raise much needed funds for the CF Trust. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">I will post a short blog following every ride and post loads of pictures of the challenges we face. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">We are planning to begin this challenge (26 trail centres in 26 weeks) starting January 2012. This gives us enough time to train and plan our routes, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>BUT YOU CAN START&nbsp;DONATING NOW!</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>In anticipation - thank you for reading this page, thank you for sponsoring us and thank you for supporting those with us and no longer with us fighting the battle agianst CF.</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Dave Cook</strong></span></span></p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p><strong>So please dig deep and donate now.</strong></p>