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Martyn Rowing 127 miles of River Severn

Martyn McGuinness is raising money for Help for Heroes
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on 16 August 2011

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<div id="story"> <div class="wrapper description"> <p>It's time again for the me and the lads to do something worthwhile with our time&nbsp;and get off&nbsp;our backsides.</p> <p>My fellow team members are &nbsp;Alan Murphy, Anthony Rhodes, Barry Smith, Daz Winterflood, Edward Rhodes, Gareth Vince, Gethin Thomas, Mel Popple &amp;&nbsp;Mat Davies.</p> <p>This year&nbsp;our challenge is to row two Canadian canoes along the navigable part of the River Severn from Pool Quay in Welshpool to Gloucester Docks, which is a total of <strong>127 miles</strong>. This will be done over three days (<strong>14th-16th October</strong>).</p> <p>Our aim is to raise &pound;4000 through this website and a similar amount from other donations. All money raised will be donated to <strong>Help For Heroes</strong>. Please give generously as I think you will agree that this is a worthy cause.</p> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} > <! [endif] ></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;" _mce_style="color: #333399;">It's time again for the lads to do something worthwhile with their time and get off their backsides. The very nautically challenged team (in alphabetical order) will comprise of the following people Alan Murphy, Anthony Rhodes, Barry Smith, Daz Winterflood, Edward Rhodes, Gareth Vince, Gethin Thomas, Mel Popple, Martyn McGuiness &amp; Mat Davies.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;" _mce_style="color: #333399;">This year our challenge is to row two Canadian canoes along the navigable part of the River Severn from Pool Quay in Welshpool to Gloucester Docks, which is a total of 127 miles. This will be done over three days. Our aim is to raise &pound;4000 through this website and a similar amount from other donations.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" _mce_style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" _mce_style="color: #333399;">All money raised will be donated to Help For Heroes. Please give generously as I think you will agree that this is a worthy cause.</span></p> </bo ><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;" _mce_style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: #333399;" _mce_style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;" _mce_style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">It's time again for the lads to do something worthwhile with their time and get off their backsides. The very nautically challenged team (in alphabetical order) will comprise of the following people Alan Murphy, Anthony Rhodes, Barry Smith, Daz Winterflood, Edward Rhodes, Gareth Vince, Gethin Thomas, Mel Popple, Martyn McGuiness &amp; Mat Davies.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;" _mce_style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;" _mce_style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This year our challenge is to row two Canadian canoes along the navigable part of the River Severn from Pool Quay in Welshpool to Gloucester Docks, which is a total of 127 miles. This will be done over three days. Our aim is to raise &pound;4000 through this website and a similar amount from other donations.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;" _mce_style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" _mce_style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;" _mce_style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">All money raised will be donated to Help For Heroes. Please give generously as I think you will agree that this is a worthy cause.</span></span></p> </bo >It's time again for the lads to do something worthwhile with their time and get off their backsides. The very nautically challenged team (in alphabetical order) will comprise of the following people Alan Murphy, Anthony Rhodes, Barry Smith, Daz Winterflood, Edward Rhodes, Gareth Vince, Gethin Thomas, Mel Popple, Martyn McGuiness &amp; Mat Davies.<br />This year our challenge is to row two Canadian canoes along the navigable part of the River Severn from Pool Quay in Welshpool to Gloucester Docks, which is a total of 127 miles. This will be done over three days. Our aim is to raise &pound;4000 through this website and a similar amount from other donations.<br />All money raised will be donated to Help For Heroes. Please give generously as I think you will agree that this is a worthy cause.</p> </bo >It's time again for the lads to do something worthwhile with their time and get off their backsides. The very nautically challenged team (in alphabetical order) will comprise of the following people Alan Murphy, Anthony Rhodes, Barry Smith, Daz Winterflood, Edward Rhodes, Gareth Vince, Gethin Thomas, Mel Popple, Martyn McGuiness &amp; Mat Davies.<br />This year our challenge is to row two Canadian canoes along the navigable part of the River Severn from Pool Quay in Welshpool to Gloucester Docks, which is a total of 127 miles. This will be done over three days. Our aim is to raise &pound;4000 through this website and a similar amount from other donations.<br />All money raised will be donated to Help For Heroes. Please give generously as I think you will agree that this is a worthy cause.< > <span class="white-trans"></span></div> <a href="javascript:void(0)" _mce_href="javascript:void(0)" class="show-more call-to-action auto-expand expand-description float-r"> <u>Read more</u> </a></div> <div id="fundraising-amount" class="aside"> <div id="thermometer" class="frp-thermometer"> <div class="base"><mce:script type="text/javascript"><! $(function() { var maxHeight = 105; var pecentageTarget = 0; var pecentageTargetCount = pecentageTarget; var raisedPercentagePixel = maxHeight * 0 /100; if (raisedPercentagePixel > maxHeight ) { raisedPercentagePixel = maxHeight; } var showAnimation = true; var realPecentageTarget = pecentageTarget + 28; if (pecentageTarget >100) { realPecentageTarget = 100; }; if(pecentageTarget > 100) { pecentageTarget = 100; } var animTime = realPecentageTarget * 30 $(document).ready(function() { if (showAnimation) { $('.frp-thermometer span').animate({ height: 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