This summer I'm doing a couple of big events to try and fundraise for the MS Society. I've chosen MS as my preferred charity as two of the finest people I know live with this disease and need your help.

Both Glenda and John crack on with life in an inspiring way, coping with their reduced mobility in a way which puts my attempts to cycle 100 miles at May's Ride London event, or climb 10 Lake District peaks in 10 hours this June, into perspective.

If you can throw a fiver or so into the pot to help everyone with MS I'd be grateful (and I won't show too many pics of myself in lycra...)