Hi everybody .

First , thank you all for your support . Who is Anna ? . A great donation , no message , and I would love to know who you are .

Finished the second marathon on Sunday , really hard going .

We will do the next marathon in the New Forest , in a couple of weeks time .

Plan to do the last leg , finishing at Bewl Water on the 10th September .

If anyone wants further details of the walks , please e-mail me at

michael@harshagebauer.co.uk 

Thank's again to all .

Please see below reasons for the walk .

When we decided to do the our walk's , I had to ask my doctor if he felt this was possible . Well , at least he had a good laugh . When I asked what was funny , he said the 100 broken bones you've had , no knee cartilages , no exercise for 25 years , yes it's funny . Anyway , doctor's,told me I wouldn't walk at all from the age of 60 , 10 years later w're looking at 4 marathons !!.

So , why are we doing this .  The inspiration came from a young man , Matt Rieley .  At one of our fund raising events , Matt , who had cancer and was being treated through TCT , did an amazing speech . He made us laugh , cry and understand what he was going through . We had a great time with him , and he danced with , and enchanted everybody there .

We drank a bit too much , and then he told me he had to go back to hospital that week , and have serious treatment . I listened to this young guy , and thought I could never be that brave . Everybody at the event was absolutely amazed at him . Matt was 17 then , he passed away in May . Aged 19 .

We went to his funeral , I find it difficult to talk about this , but his family , dad Daniel , mum Sheila and bother Liam , and all his friends , were just incredible . Shed quite a few tears over this .

The incredible thing , I only met Matt once . But what an impact , I will never forget him , and will try to stay inspired by him as long as possible .

So many of our friends have supported our journey with TCT . We've done well , it's never enough , but really you have all been 'stars ' .

This doesn't stop though , so many young people with the cancer , as Matt had . So many lives lost , but so many happy endings and great stories -- you've all helped with this .

TCT supports approx half the teenagers with cancer, we need to be able to help every one of them .

As I have rambled long enough , I would just like to say thank you , all of you , and ask , if possible , you donate towards our marathons 

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