On Saturday 27th September, I’ll be marking a personal milestone:

1,000 consecutive days of logging an activity on Strava, which started back in 2023 as a way to ensure I didn't become a couch potato when becoming a dad!

To celebrate this achievement and give it real meaning, I’m taking on a one-day endurance challenge:

1,000 minutes (that’s 16 hours and 40 minutes) of running, walking and cycling in a single day — to raise £1,000 for Cure Leukaemia, the blood cancer charity helping to save and improve lives through pioneering clinical trials and treatments. I'll be taking on this challenge as my way to Move The Nation during Blood Cancer Awareness month, which is aiming to collectively move for 96,000 minutes - a minute for each person who will be diagnosed during September.

Cure Leukaemia helps blood cancer patients to access pioneering drug and transplant treatments by funding a network of specialist research nurses across the UK. Without these nurses, to ensure patients are monitored and cared for, clinical trials of these new treatments would not run and patients, that have exhausted standard treatment options, would miss out on potentially lifesaving therapies. Every penny raised for Cure Leukaemia helps save lives and also hastens global progress towards the eradication of all forms of blood cancer.