We are running 105km over 3 races with the home straight being the London Marathon. We believe Its important to remain grateful and to give back to the world in which we live, we regularly support a wide range of charities and this year we are raising money for Treloars school for disabled children and Breathing Matters a charity that raises money for the centre of respitory research who aim to find better ways to diagnose, treat and hopefully find a cure for Pulmonary Fibrosis, a terminal illness that Lee knew nothing about until last year when his mum was diagnosed with it.

Pulmonary Fibrosis is an idiopathic (unknown cause) condition referred to as (IPF) and approximately 6000 people in the UK are diagnosed each year. There currently is no cure for IPF partially due to the cause being unknown. 

IPF in simple terms is a lung disease, its the most common of the 100 forms of intestinal lung disease, it changes the lungs ability to function. Typically mild scaring of the lung tissue takes place first and over a period of time the lung tissue becomes more and more scarred making it difficult to breathe and to provide oxygen to the rest of the body which in itself has repercussions by causing heart attacks, stokes and seizures to name but a few things.  

At this point there is no cure for IPF and there are very limited treatment options as scarring is permanent once its developed.

Breathing Matters is part of UCLH - registered charity 229771.  It goes without saying I want to help this charity raise funds for their future research, it wont help my mum but it may help someone else's in he years to come.

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The majority of our donations have been sent to us from corporate sponsors and already passed to the charities however this is one last push to help raise some much needed money.

Thanks you for your help.