This June, I will be running 12 miles uphill, through mud, ice, fire, water and snow. Along the way I will have to jump ditches, crawl through tunnels and trenches, survive a swim through ice-cubes, swing from more monkey bars than even a monkey would want to, balance, leap, jump, dive and sprint across different terrains in one-gruelling testimony to human strength.

Why???? Because SOS Children's Villages offer amazing futures to orphans and street children who would, to put it morbidly, simply die without their intervention.

Check out the charity's work at www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk and help me raise money. If you need convincing, check out the obstacles at www.toughmudder.co.uk.to see what I am willing to do for your money!

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So please dig deep and donate now.