Hopefully I can keep running at this pace for the full 5km!

Anyway, thanks for visiting my fundraising page. If you can help and sponsor me online that would be great.

Why should you donate? Well, I'm taking part in my first triathlon - the Mazda Blenheim Triathlon as part of a team of fellow hacks assembled by Mazda's PR Director. So it seemed a good idea to raise some money if I was going to put in this amount of effort.

I'm actually collecting for two charities: this one, BEN, and Cancer Research. If you can I'd like you to split your donations between both charities - you need to go to the same domain but replace BEN with CancerResearch. Of course, how you donate is  totally up to you.

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Cancer Research UK will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

Many thanks for your support - Ralph