For those of you who don't know, our best man, the lovely, looney Clive Case died in 2005 of bowel cancer at the age of 34, and I pledged then to embarrass myself and do something sporty every year to raise money to help to prevent other people dying so young, so needlessly and especially before their children reach the age of 2.
Clive's son David is now 12, and the picture shows him with Clive's memorial stone where his ashes were scattered in his favourite valley in Citrusdal, South Africa.
Since Clive's death I've done the Race for Life 4 times, 3 triathlons (yes, triathlons) done a mile swim in the Thames and gone without booze for a month (the hardest of the lot) and in the process raised a total of £6,125 for Cancer Research.
Last year I signed up for (and some of you sponsored me) for the Grand Union Challenge, which I failed to complete as I managed to break my ankle 3 weeks beforehand (10 weeks of non-weight bearing, is NOT great fun…. I’d have much preferred to be doing the walk).
So this year I am tripling the effort and will be doing my own version of a triathlon, over three events, all for great causes:
1) a 1.5k swim on 13th August
2) a 25k walk on 10th September
3) a 40k bike ride on 9th October
They are all listed below, and I’d love your support for one or more of them – please choose the charity or the event that means the most to you, and we’ll see what the totals add up to!
Thanks so much as always.
Mel
And just in case you want to laugh at photos of me in various stages of elation/ knackeredness/ humiliating garb, or see evidence of my fundraising, my past pages are here:
2006: http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/melanieclark
2007: http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/melanieclark2007
2008: I'd just given birth, come on!!
2009: http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/melaniemack
2010: http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/melaniemack2010
2011: http://www.justgiving.com/Melanie-Mack0
2012: https://www.justgiving.com/melaniemack2012
2013: http://www.justgiving.com/MelanieMack2013
2014 part 1: http://www.justgiving.com/TheMacksGoDry
2014 part 2: https://www.justgiving.com/MelanieMack2014/
2015 https://www.justgiving.com/MelanieMack2015 (which I didn’t complete as I broke my ankle - hence the triple effort this year)
