I fell badly while climbing in September and the Edale Mountain Rescue Team were the crucial first responders. I will be raising money for them by spending 7th August running between and climbing at all seven LCC centres spread across London*. In total I will cover over 35 miles (56km). 

The Edale MRT are volunteers, and what could have happened had they not responded as they did does not bear thinking about. 

Incident Report (Facebook): https://bit.ly/2RvP5mC

After my fall, and with assistance from their colleagues from Buxton, the Edale team swiftly delivered me by manpower to a helicopter which flew me on to Northern General hospital. 

Following scans and tests which occupy ripped out pages from my memory, it was diagnosed that under my cracked helmet I had picked up vague medical words which roughly boiled down to 'Traumatic Brain Injury'. 

Now, 8 months on as I write this, I have passed through weeks in hospital and months of residual numbnesses and coordination issues as my brain gradually reacclimatised itself to controlling my body.

I couldnt write properly. Walking down stairs was a mission. Even holding a fork felt like I had an alien tool in a hand I was trying to function with a video game controller.

Thanks to the care I received from the rescuers, hospital staff and rehab teams, I have been able to return to climbing, cycling and running. 

In celebration of the fact that my life has almost unbelievably begun to return to something like 'normal', I will be undertaking a challenge to run approximately 35 miles between climbing centres in London, tying together two passions which could easily have been lost to me.

The Run for your Life will take me on my longest ever running distance and across the capital from South East to North West. Along the way I will be stopping at climbing centres and doing as many climbs as I can. 

At the end I will have a time and a score, something I will leave as a challenge to anyone else who wants to have a go!

(*VauxWall West, VauxWall East, HarroWall, CroyWall, RavensWall, CanaryWall and BethWall)