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<div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, hello there,</span> </span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, a few months ago I naively signed-up to do something called The Three Peaks Challenge with a few people from work to raise some much needed funds for the <a href="http://www.lcfc.com/page/FoxesFoundationIndex">Leicester City Football Club Foxes Foundation One In A Million campaign</a>. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Didn’t think too much of it at the time, it was months away and just seemed like an easy thing to do for charity.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'It just involves you walking up a few hills', I was told. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">'It’s easy and you get to go travel to some beautiful parts of Scotland, Wales and the Lake District’ someone added. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘It’ll be really good fun’ said someone else (that I went on to find out isn’t involved in the challenge at all!)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh, how wrong I was and how cruel those people turned out to be - please read on...</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At this point I want to apologise for the length of my ‘story’ but I would be genuinely grateful if you would take 2 minutes to carry on reading to the end…</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The serious bit…</span></span></strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.lcfc.com/page/FoxesFoundationIndex">The Leicester City Football Club Foxes Foundation One In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Million campaign</a> registered charity (1144791)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The LCFC Foxes Foundation One In A Million campaign, launched last year, aims to raise £150,000 and take the total raised by ‘The Birch’ and LCFC over the £1 million mark. The £150,000 will be shared equally between 10 very deserving charities:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Harley Staples Cancer Trust</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Leicestershire Children’s Hospital</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">LOROS</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PROSTaid</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Royal Anglican Regiment Benevolent Fund</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vista</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wishes 4 Kids</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taking part in this challenge is my small way of contributing towards an amazing cause in the LCFC Foxes Foundation and the ten deserving charities – but also to show my support for one person that has been tirelessly fundraising for many deserving charities over the last 30+ years, raising over £850,000 - The Birch.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a team of colleagues, and you will see that my page is linked to a group page, our aim is to raise £10,000 with this challenge!</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The ‘Challenge’</span></span></strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For those that don’t know, the Three Peaks Challenge involves me climbing up Ben Nevis in Scotland starting at 4pm on Saturday, driving through the night to climb Scafell Pike in the Lake District as the sun comes up on Sunday morning, then on to Wales later Sunday morning to take on Mount Snowdon – attempting to complete the whole challenge in around 24 hours.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, those that know me or about me will know that I like the occasional drink and late night, have a gym membership and never go, am always on a diet (on a Monday only when I have guilty feelings about the weekend) and am generally not cut out for physical activities such as The Three Peaks Challenge. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Having nicknames such as ‘China’ and ‘Fragile’ should explain a lot - I can pick up an injury just watching a football match, let alone doing something as adventurous as this!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyway, I’m doing it now and it’s too late to get out of it!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My contribution</span></span></strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have been training by walking up and down the steps within the King Power Stadium, which doesn’t sound too strenuous, but to give you an example of my most recent session after work last night I walked up and down 32 sets of steps, 77 up, 77 down totally 4,928 steps in under an hour. You try telling my legs today that wasn’t too strenuous!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have also spent a day with some colleagues in The Peak District walking for around 12 miles (6 and half hours) with some decent ascents up some fairly sizeable hills – around a third of the entire whole challenge and boy did I feel it. We also have another trip planned to The Lake District along with many more hours step climbing and gym sessions.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am probably giving too much detail here, but I wanted to put into perspective how much time and effort this challenge taking to get to a point where I will even have a chance of actually completing it. I will also end up spending at very least £200-£300 on equipment, along with much more on petrol, digs, food, drink etc. which I am more than happy to contribute.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">So – as you can see, especially if you know me well, I am really putting myself out of my comfort zone here and making a big effort for a very deserving cause – which, I feel deserves a donation, however small or large, of your hard earned money.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">I would be extremely grateful if you could sponsor me in this challenge, even just a few pounds – they all count.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;">I genuinely appreciate you taking the time read my page and hope that you can help me, my colleagues, LCFC and The Birch towards reaching our target of raising £150,000 taking the total raised over the years passed the £1 million mark.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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