<p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">On 18th June I am undertaking a truly death defying feat of super-human endurance, the likes of which has (probably) never before been done (by me at least, given I have barely broken into a run for about the last 10 years...):</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">An unusual triathlon which takes advantage of all the difficulties that North Wales can throw at you:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">1km swim in the freezing Irish Sea (anyone who has ever&nbsp;seen me swim will appreciate quite how terrifying a prospect this is....)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">55km cycle across hilly Anglesey and into the Snowdonian Mountain Range</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a 7km run up Mount Snowdon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Please sponsor me for all you can... the money raised will go to two excellent causes which both help young people in very different, but most excellent ways:</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Ty Gobaith Hope House</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">&nbsp;(hopehouse.org.uk) is&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">currently caring for&nbsp;more than 320&nbsp;terminally ill children and their families in North Wales</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The Frank Haines Memorial Trust</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">&nbsp;(</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">frankhaines.com)</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">&nbsp;provides a critical means of support, education and opportunity for young people in Tower Hamlets, who otherwise have precious few prospects in life.</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The charities are both extremely deserving of all the help they can get, and all of your donations will be split equally between the two.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Please sponsor me... your generosity is MUCH appreciated</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; border-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="behavior: none; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thanks a million!</span></p>