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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for visiting this donations page -</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">for my <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">London Marathon</strong> run - <strong>BAREFOOT </strong>-<strong> </strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">in support of <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WWF</strong>.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s right, in April I'll be running 26.2 miles <em>with not a bean on my feet</em>!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Inspired by Mexico's Tarahumara Indians - who run barefoot for hundreds of miles</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">without rest, while enjoying every minute of it - I've been running barefoot since 1st Nov.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">'The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.'</span></span></em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Leonardo da Vinci</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Barefoot running brings freedom & simplicity, utilising the natural gifts of the body:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">the energy-filled springs of the legs, the ever-adapting shock-absorbers of the ankles,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">heels </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">& toes and the miracle of two feet - each with the supple resiliency of 26 bones</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and 33 joints. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Works of art, indeed!</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">To find out more, read the best-seller, <em>Born To Run </em>- but beware, it could be life-changing!</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">--- --- --- --- </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you’d like to help me reach my fundraising goal of £2620, here’s a few</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">ways your donation can </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">help World Wildlife Fund in their work:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">£10 </span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">buys 40 seedlings to help replant the forests of Tanzania</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">£25</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> pays a Rhino Protection Unit ranger's salary for 10 days</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">£100</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> funds the training of one villager, in Borneo, to become a Wildlife Warden</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">& for a taste of what WWF do, see footage of rhino relocation... by helicopter:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.wwf.org.uk/news_feed.cfm?5405/Solving-the-rhino-crisis"><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.wwf.org.uk/news_feed.cfm?5405/Solving-the-rhino-crisis</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Whatever you can afford to give will be most valuable and very gratefully received</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">- as will your message of support.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you & look out for two bare feet on race day - silly me!</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4.05pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve</span></span></span></p>