<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Wow - I made it !!!?</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">And it was a bitch, 54 miles from London, Tooting Common, to the prom in Brighton. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">I can't tell you how many nightmare hills there were on the course which everyone struggled with. I thought i was ready for hills but how wrong i was. But i managed it in 5hrs 6mins, so not quick but completed. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">All i can say is 'Gel Pants' rule I can still walk !!</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Can't thank you all enough for your donations you all went mad and the total is amazing, it makes it all worth while - thanks again.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">The pictures show a couple of things, obviously getting to the end and who we do it for but the first shows Ditchling Beacon !!</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Most didn't get all the way up without walking, I saw 2 that made it, basically in 1 mile we had come from the land level you can see below up a shear road to the top where Sue took this picture '*~"*&gt;*', and as you may remember over the weekend we had some wind too !! </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for all that have helped, donated and supported me in this madness and especially Sue who was a fantastic support car keeping me topped up with drinks , Mars Bars and keeping me going.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">I'm off to lie in a darkened room,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Thanks again,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Phil.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> REMEBER HAITI</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">The Andrew Grene Foundation (AGF) is a charity dedicated to supporting Haitian people through <strong><span style="color: red;">education</span></strong>, <strong><span style="color: red;">loans</span></strong> and building <strong><span style="color: red;">projects</span></strong>. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">In a country where 90 per cent of the population is unemployed, they help people to overcome severe hardship. They've helped women who could not previously feed their children, providing <strong><span style="color: red;">loans</span></strong> to help them take food to market and look after their families. They built a <strong><span style="color: red;">school</span></strong> from the rubble of the 2010 earthquake, in a place where state provision does not exist and schooling costs around half the typical wage. And they are helping to bring pride and a future back to Haiti after the ravages of many years of natural and political upheaval.</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Their work is dedicated to the memory of Andrew Grene, a UN worker and one of the many thousands of people who died in the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010. You can read more <strong><span style="color: red;">about Andrew </span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.andrewgrene.org/">www.andrewgrene.org</a>. </span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div> </div>