My 15 year old son Rory went missing from a beach in Sufolk in August 2003.  The RNLI searched for him over several days and eventually recovered his body a week later.

I had hoped to take on a challenge in 2013 to mark the 10th aniversary of his death and raise some money for the RNLI.  Unfortunately I haved suffered from a number of health issues in recent years this  prevented me from going ahead. However in January this year,  I decided that I needed to make some radical life changes and that I would seek not one but two challenges in 2014, the Great North Run and the Great East Swim.

I completed the swim in June and my supporters donated over £400.  The second part of the challenge has proved more difficult.  All was going well till I snapped my bicepts tendon a couple of weeks ago at the Cadet Sailing World Championships.  After much thought and advice I have decided to run.  It wont be fast and it will be painful but the RNLI are worth a couple of hours of discomfort.