I'm raising £6,000 for Fight Forward.

Six weeks. Eight kilometres. One fight that matters more.

On 28 October, Lesley and I are racing HYROX Doubles Women at the Birmingham NEC. Eight one-kilometre runs, eight brutal stations in between, done side by side. We're training for it now, and we're doing it to raise money for Fight Forward.

Fight Forward is the not-for-profit Lesley founded. It uses boxing to help women recover from domestic abuse. One in four women in the UK will experience abuse in her lifetime, and Fight Forward's answer is not a leaflet. It is a ten-week programme where women train like real fighters and step into the ring, and an eight-week programme pairing boxing with trauma-informed therapy. Boxing teaches you to take up space. For a woman who has spent years making herself small, that is the whole thing.

Your donation pays for free programme places for survivors who can't afford one, for the female coaches and mentors who run the sessions, for therapy and wellbeing support, and for the gear and safe training space that make it possible.

We're asking for £6k over these six weeks. Every pound goes to Fight Forward.

Follow the training with us. On 28 October we'll be racing, and it'll be worth it.

fightforward.org.uk

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