Actually I' not doing the B'ham half now, I'm doing the Grand Union Canal half Marathon.  Unfortunately, the flight back from Ethiopia gets back a couple of hours before the start of the B'ham one!

I must be mad deciding to run a half marathon!!  What was I thinking???

I was thinking about all of the people out there who are dying and sick due to lack of access to clean water and sanitation, and I felt the need to do something a bit more drastic than sitting on a committee at STW, or talking to people about it.

I've spent time in Burkina Faso with WaterAid and I'll be going out to Ethiopia in October to do some more work with them, so no doubt I'll be bugging you with my stories when I return.

But in the meantime, PLEASE sponsor me!  I'll take anything you can afford to give.

At the mo, I can manage about 10 miles, so I have a way to go - I have no doubt that I'll have to slow down at some point, but I promise to make it round without stopping!

£5 could pay for a bag of cement to build a latrine slab in Ghana

£15 can enable one person to access safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation

£25 could pay for a mason to protect a spring in Uganda

£50 is enough for two days of hygiene education training in a village in Tanzania

£100 could pay a mason to build a hand-dug well in Nigeria

£150 could pay to train two community members to maintain their village water supplies in Ethiopia

£200 could buy a locally built rope pump in Mozambique

£385 could pay for a school sanitation block for 150 boys and girls in India

So just think how many we could help with £500!!