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Over the last 5 years through the generosity of corporate sponsorship, various fundraising events and a huge number of donations from friends and family we have raised over £25,000 for ClicSargent. Clic are the UK’s leading children’s cancer trust, providing care and support for children with cancer and their families and we are extremely proud to have opened a trust with the charity based on the success of past fundraising. Clic are an extremely hard working charity and are very close to our hearts.   This year I’ll be attempting to finish the grand slam of ultrarunning, an award handed to any runner who completes the 4 oldest 100 mile races in the United States in one summer. The races are all mountain 100s involving climbing and descending a total of 155,000 feet over the 4 x 100 miles and take place in the great mountain ranges of North America: California (June), Vermont (July), Colorado (August) and Utah (September). Each race has a cut off of between 30 and 36 hours.   This will be the hardest thing I’ve done to date, much more so than the Mds,  4Deserts series or Badwater. Whilst Badwater is undoubtedly individually a harder race, the cumulative fatigue from racing 4 times in 11 weeks is going to be the hardest element. The Grand Slam is awarded to less than 15 people each year whilst up to 75 people finish Badwater each summer.   Whilst we will be holding fundraising events away from this site (look out for the ‘relay’ round 2) any donations whatever size are greatly appreciated.   If you have time and want to know more about the race you can read about them <a href="http://runthroughtime.blogspot.com/2011/04/grand-slam-of-ultrarunning.html">here </a>