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Tom's Triathlon Page: Where Eagles Dare 2011

Thomas O'Brien is raising money for Mawddach Rotary Club
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on 5 May 2011

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Mawddach Rotary club aim to raise funds for many good causes. Presently we need funds for Shelterboxes to give relief to those who have lost their homes in Vanuatu. At present you can also support the Barmouth Viaduct Access group through our site..

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<p> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">On 18th June I am, like, totally undertaking a truly death defying feat of super-human endurance, the likes of which has (probably) never before been done:</span></span></span></span></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A really hard triathlon. &nbsp;Really hard.</span></span></span></span></div> </p> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">So please sign up and give as much or as little as you can to our two brilliant charities and I promise I won't let you down.</span></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 14px;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">This is an unusual triathlon which takes advantage of all the difficulties that North Wales can throw at you...</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">1km swim</span></strong>&nbsp;in the freezing Irish Sea,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #339966; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">55km cycle</span></strong>&nbsp;across hilly Anglesey and into the Snowdonian Mountain Range,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">and a&nbsp;<strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">7km run</span></strong>&nbsp;up Mount Snowdon.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">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:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #008000; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Ty Gobaith Hope House</strong></span>&nbsp;(<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.hopehouse.org.uk/">hopehouse.org.uk</a>) is currently caring for more than 320 terminally ill children and their families in North Wales.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #008000; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Frank Haines Memorial Trust</span></strong>&nbsp;(<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.frankhaines.com/">frankhaines.com</a>) provides a critical means of support, education and opportunity for young people in Tower Hamlets, who otherwise have precious few prospects in life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">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.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The event is kindly sponsored by Holyhead and Mawddach Rotary, whose help with setting up and preparation has been invaluable.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Please sponsor me... your generosity is MUCH appreciated</p> </span></span></span></span></span></div> </div>

Donation summary

Total
£1,170.00
+ £182.50 Gift Aid
Online
£1,170.00
Offline
£0.00

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