This Summer I will be taking on two challenges which are far outside my comfort zone. All for a little boy named Skye Hall who is sadly no longer with us. For those of you not linked to Abingdon School, Skye Hall's father is our director of sport and unfortunately Skye passed away in August last year due to treatment he underwent for brain cancer, he was just 5 years old. Attending Skye's funeral and seeing the struggles his family have had to deal with over the last few years have brought home to me once again how incredibly lucky I am, and how we have a duty to do what we can for those who don't have the ability to help themselves. Soon after Skye's diagnosis the Hall family set up Blue Skye Thinking a registered charity looking to conduct greater research into childhood cancer. Brain tumors are the biggest childhood cancer killer and yet research is chronically underfunded. 

More can be found out about Blue Skye Thinking and a remarkable little boy here: http://www.blueskyethinking.org/

Not a long distance sportsman I have committed my self along with Myles Tullo to cycle from London to Paris averaging 100 miles a day. For two blokes with limited cycling experience and little training or know how this could prove to be an uphill struggle, sometimes literally! 

While on Rugby tour in New Zealand I will then be attempting the City2Surf race from the centre of Sydney to Bondi Beach, it is the Southern Hemisphere's biggest long distance race with some 85,000 people registered to enter, all looking to cover the 14km of rugged coastline including the notorious heartbreak hill. Both Ed Swanick and Neil Hunter will be joining me for this

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