<p>How better to start a year then to make the commitment to get in shape and be able to compete running. (Well this is my number one resolution EVERY year really to be honest)<br><br>An even better start would be to make the commitment to get in a really really good shape...and compete running.<br><br>Well, I shall try reverse this logic. Lets commit to a race that I may not have to win but in order to JUST SURVIVE I really have to get in quite some state of fitness that most certainly would suffice.<br><br>The race I am planning to take part in and raise funds for a great charity will inevitable force me to get fit enough to be able to survive running 250 km, with a 10kg backpack at 38-40 Celsius at day and -1 C at night through the Sahara. Yupp, certainly a great motivator to lay off those Jaffa Cakes and everything else weighing me down and thinking, how I can get there in 10 months (well actually we are already 2 months into my training and my knees are killing me... not great - but, hey, I already have a 2-pack with shall become a 6er soon-ish)<br><br>Since I prepaid this quite costly event, I am committed not just with my will, but also with the few savings that I never had in the first place. Yeyy, excited.<br><br>So, now - You may be wondering why I choose this Charity... I am not in a place to judge if the most important cause is saving trees, children, elderly, poor or the water. (They all are crucial, of course, but how to choose ONE). I CAN however decide on how the money is spent in the most efficient way, namely: I can choose someone that does utilize the money without wasting admin costs etc, which MOST CHARITIES DO btw.... there are few that have an efficiency above 60% (meaning only 60p per pound are utilized for the cause), and very few ever go beyond 95%! Thus finding one that is 100% is quite rare, and is thus MY WINNER. Simple choice really.<br><br></p>