<p><span style="color: #73645d; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;"> </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Doing crazy challenges is in my DNA so what better way to make the most of this than to use it to raise money for charity.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Having done the Marathon Des Sables in + 40 degrees C, now is my chance to see if I can survive a challenge in - 40 degrees C.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Siberian Black Ice Race involves cycling the length of Lake Baikal which lies in Eastern Siberia and spans 600km. It is a self sufficient race and hence I have to carry everything I need for the race with me on my bike.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">You can follow my preparation and journey on www.marialeijerstam.blogspot.com</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Please help to make this challenge one that will also help thousands of people who are effected by Alzheimer's.</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 1.3em;">The Alzheimer's Society is important to me because my grandmother died of it many years ago and now my boyfriend's father is also suffering. I really really want to do all I can to help this charity raise vital funds to go towards working on a cure as well as medicines that will ease the pain of living with the disease. </span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 1.3em;">Thank you for your support!</span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #73645d; line-height: 1.4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>