UPDATE:

Officially met our target and completed our challenge on 21st March.

Really, really appreciate everyone's support and donations.

The funds will be used to support the charity's sibling support group, providing sessions for people with special needs and their siblings.

Been a real challenge but nowhere near as impressive as the work everyone at Rays does. Proud to support them 🙌🙌

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Here we are again - third year of this nonsense.

Three years ago I started running 210km each winter to mark World Down's Syndrome day (21st March - the 21 references the extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down's).

Year one was for the Down's Syndrome Association. Year two for Rossendale Rays. This year I'm back raising funds for the Rays because they're still doing brilliant work and could use the support.

This year A TWIST - to keep it interesting. My cousin, Isaac, will be joining the challenge, 210km by 21st March!

And as a build on the previous two years, this year I'm doing 210 miles. Because masochism.

So between us we'll be covering roughly the distance from Manchester to London (if you took a detour through the Brecon Beacons).

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For those who missed the previous instalments: my brother Caspar has Down's and is the greatest (and sometimes worst) person in the world. He's been spectacularly himself since day one and has a talent for bringing out the best in everyone around him.

A few years after he was born, my parents and a group of other families set up a swimming club for people with special needs. They wanted somewhere their kids could swim, mess about, and just exist without the worrying about any judgement.

Two decades on, that swimming club has grown into Rossendale Rays - a proper sports charity that puts on running cycling sessions, swimming, snow tubing, and support services for hundreds of SEND families across the north west.

It's a place where you don't have to explain yourself, where everyone gets the reality of raising someone with additional needs, and where you meet genuinely sound people.

210km between now and 21st March. Any donations appreciated.