Over the next 4/5 months I will be training to race the Staffordshire Half Ironman on my own turf! That's 1.9km swim, 90km bike ride finished off by a 21.1km run.... that's a looong way! My average weekends will consist of 4/5 hour bike rides, 2500m in the pool with 3 hours of running, thats not alot of time left for wine here! I need encouragment!

Whilst doing so I will hope to raise £1000 for the charity Smile Train.

Every year 170,000+ children are born with cleft lip and/or palate. Most can’t afford surgery.

Smile Train provides free cleft repair surgeries to those in need while helping to train local doctors.
This makes it possible for a child born with a cleft to eat, breathe, speak properly, and smile.

I always get teased for grinning like an idiot when I race despite the pain and it seems a very apt charity to be part off to give a smile to a child in the pursuit of smiling myself :)

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