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The definition of foolish perhaps can now be explained…!

As many of you will already know, I am always up for a challenge and try and do something once a year to raise money for a worthwhile charity.  I have therefore been donning stretchy shorts and pounding the pavements in preparation for a charity trek across the Sahara desert in February next year. 

I am embarking on the mammoth task of trekking across the world’s second largest desert to raise money for Beaumond House (website link http://www.saharatrek.co.uk), which is organising the trip as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.  This charity is a local Hospice that looks after people and their families when they have terminal illnesses.  I do have first-hand experience of the charity as a close friend of mine sadly passed away in his early forties and the hospice gave some well needed help to his young family and wife – so I know how important the work they do is.

The ten-day hike will start on Friday 10 February, and I am already hard at work training to hopefully be fit for the task.

I have been running, swimming and walking for the past few months, but now I am really ramping it up and have started a rabbit food diet to help me to get fit!  I am hoping to raise £20,000 so I need to be sure I do not let anyone down.  I am not too nervous about the actual trek, but I am concerned about where the toilets will be!!

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Matthew