Hi All, 

So I have decided to run the Royal Parks Half Marathon. 

As you may know I was quite anti sport & exercise for a long time, but changed my mind on the matter quite abruptly over the last year or so. So I thought running a half marathon would be a good way to really cement this new habit, and at the same time get in everyone's faces about it! :)

As is customary, I am running for charity. I took the choice of charity very seriously, because I know that the cost effectivness of charities can vary HUGELY.

During my research I came across two excellent sources, both of which look at the effectivness of charity; http://www.givewell.org/ & http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/.

The reason I am going on about this is so that you know that I have done the leg work to ensure that the effort that I put in to my fundraising, and the money that you will hopefully donate will go on to do as much good as possible. 

So I chose Doctors of the World as my charity, since they follow the two most important principles:

1) They mainly work abroad in the developing world - where money donated goes a lot further than in the UK or the rest of the developed world

2) Their programmes are exclusively focusing on health care - people need to be alive and not debilitatingly sick, before any other problems can be tackled

If you wish to know more about their work, look here. 

Thanks for reading, please sponsor me generously.