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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">My childhood dreams were to represent the UK, cycling at the Olympics, or climb the highest mountains in the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">I have missed the London Olympic cycling team for 2012, but still want to challenge myself in the spirit of the Olympic moto: Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">On March 30th I will begin my journey to Everest Base Camp and Kala Patar in the Himalayas. I aim to reach a maximum height of 5554m or 18,200 feet where there will be half the amount of oxygen available in Cheshire.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">I will be trekking for two weeks and will be posting pictures and diary entries on this blog, to record my journey and share my experiences with my wife Jill, my family & friends and the Hartford Manor Community.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alongside the trek I hope to raise money for the "Make a Wish Foundation", who will be supporting one of our Year 6 pupils, Alfie Rodgers,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and his family. Alfie wishes to visit "The World of Harry Potter" at Universal Studios, Florida, with his family with support from the Foundation.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Alfie has been absent from school since July 2011, as he continues to receive treatment for bone cancer. Alfie is responding well to his treatment and has just started visiting school, to work in a small with his classmates for up to one hour a day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Make-A-Wish Foundation UK, is a charity with a single purpose - granting wishes to children and young people aged 3-17 fighting life-threatening conditions.</span></p>
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