Hi everyone I'm Dale Clark and I am taking on this challenge to raise money in memory of my nan who suffered so much for so many years with this terrible illness.

Like most of you know I was over 40 stone 21 weeks ago, I'm still 33 stone so this will make the challenge that much harder. I want to row 293 kilometres, which is the distance from the East coast to the West coast over 32 days, so I will have to average 9.1k a day. I will finish on 4th April which will be 6 months since my surgery and hopefully will be having a good weigh in result to top this challenge off.

Whilst I'm completing this challenge, I will be thinking about all the places that my nan visited on her travels, but my mode of transport will be a rower, unlike nan's tandem. I'm sure I'm going to suffer more aches and pains because I can't put my feet up like grandad accused nan of on the back of the tandem 😊. But its a small sacrifice from me in memory of such a selfless woman ❤ who was my number 1 supporter in battling the bulge in the past.