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I am about to embark on the greatest challenge of my physical and probably mental self that I have done. The Ultra Trail Australia is a grueling 50KM ultra Marathon through the beautiful and scenic Blue Mountains here in New South Wales, Australia.

For those have known me the longest you will be well aware that in years gone by (a few now) my idea of a Friday and Saturday night dinner would be a bag of crisps and a Guinness, all about balance! so this has been an amazing yet enjoyable challenge to date.

I am doing this primarily to be perfectly honest for myself, I have often wanted to run a marathon distance as a typical bucket list item but none more than now with a young daughter that I want to be proud of her dad's achievements when she is older and I am a lot fatter! But additionally to this I want to put my efforts and no doubt pain filled 8 hours to good use and raise some much needed funds for a charity very close to my heart.

My best friend from the UK gave up everything about 6 years ago to start a charity in Ghana to give kids who really have nothing a chance of life. Today from nothing they now run a nursery that serves over 100 children in the local community and gives these kids a start in life when many without this support and education would fall to disease and not see out their younger years. My wife and I witnessed this first hand a couple of years ago and it really is heart breaking. With the constant unstableness of the Ghanaian government they have been hit pretty hard through this year I will be looking at ways to promote their cause and raise some good cash!