My 15 year old son Rory went missing from a beach in Sufolk in August 2003.  The RNLI searched for him over several days and eventually recovered his body a week later.

I had hoped to take on a challenge in 2013 to mark the 10th aniversary of his death and raise some money for the RNLI.  Unfortunately I haved suffered from a number of health issues in recent years this  prevented me from going ahead. However in January this year,  I decided that I needed to make some radical life changes and that I would seek not one but two challenges in 2014, the Great North Run and the Great East Swim.

i was very fortunate to get a place on The Suffolk Sport "Sportivate 50+" programme which is guiding a group of over 50's through the preperations for the one mile open water swim at the Great East Swim.

Since January I have lost over 40 pounds in weight and from April I have been training hard, swimming 3-4 times a week.  In the last 3 months up to the event I will have swum over 40 miles in training.  

I have also started Running again after 20 years in preperation for the half marathon in september.

Please help me help the RNLI in Rory's memory in 2014

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