I've realised that I've got far too much energy for a normal person so I need to stop relaxing on my holidays and instead set myself a challenge!

So I've got two weeks off work to cycle from London to Berlin (about 1,000km) before completing my first marathon in Berlin on the 25th September!

My aim is to raise £2,000 for Hope and Homes for Children - £2 for every kilometre travelled, so any support you can give would be amazing. For example £30 could enable HHC to send a child to school for one year by helping to pay their school fees or provide the necessary uniform, books and equipment to put them on the road to a brighter future.

I've got an ambitious aim to do the marathon in under 3hours and 30minutes which I think will be tough after all that cycling. So if you want to give me an incentive why not commit to doubling your donation if I do it under 3hrs30?

As a thank you for sponsoring me, why not guess the time I will complete the marathon in and put it in the comments section. Then the person nearest to my actual time wins a bottle of wine!

Thanks for your support. Mike.