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My Barefoot and Raw ultra marathon challenge has taken over a year to get to this point.

When I first thought of the idea it was to raise money for one charity, The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennesse who rescue ex circus and zoo ele's and give them their freedom and dignity back. Since then it has grown to include three other charities: The David Sheldrick Trust in Kenya, rescuing and rehabilitating orphaned ele's, The Little Pod Association, rescuing and rehoming dogs and cats in Spain and Spanish Stray Dogs who also rescue and rehome dogs in Spain.

This is the fundraising page for the UK arm of Spanish Stray dogs who do amazing and tireless work bringing doggies over to the UK in order to find them forever homes that are worthy of these wonderful, loyal and loving animals.

So, with four charities to raise money for my challenge has to be big right??

Well I hope it is and lives up to what I hope to achieve. Over the next year I will be training and running a series of races in vibrams (barefoot shoes) and fueled solely on raw food.

I don't know yet how many races I will be taking part in (I keep adding to them) but I do know that they will include the following three distances....

A marathon

A 50 mile ultra marathon 

A 100 mile ultra marathon

The first of my races is the Lille marathon in Pas de Calais, France on the 12th May 2013.

I will be updating this page regularly and I also have a dedicated blog for my challenge here http://barefootandraw.wordpress.com/

There is also a second part to this challenge where you can get involved and run your own race in support of one or all of my charities. Doesn't matter how far and as an added incentive I will send you free online training and support to help you complete your race - I am a qualified Personal Fitness Trainer - more details on this can be found here http://barefootandraw.wordpress.com/your-challenge/

I hope you will get behind my challenge; either by supporting me here or by doing your own event and setting your own page up.

Thank you so much, from meI, Spanish Stray Dogs and most importantly the doggies :)

Helen x

 

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