Let's face it, neither of us can consider ourselves "athletes", especially not runners. However, we've been training hard for the Brooks Brighton 10k run which takes place along the seafront on November 15th 2009.

In countries across Asia, thousands of bears live a life of torture on bear farms, so that their bile can be extracted and used in traditional medicine to cure ailments ranging from headaches to haemorrhoids. Bears are confined in cages which vary from agonisingly tiny "crush" cages to larger pens, all of which cause terrible physical and mental suffering.

www.animalsasia.org. are a wonderful charity who have managed to free 260 bears across Asia so far. Lets try and rescue another one!

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