In July, we’re taking on the 496 Challenge — running 496km across 31 days to raise money for Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH).

Normally, it’s 1km on day one, 2km on day two and so on up to 31km. We're doing it tombola style, each day we’ll use the challenge’s random generator to decide the distance. That means we could be hit with 31km straight away or have the bigger runs spread throughout, we won’t know until the day.

No swapping days, no backing out, whatever comes out, we run.

We’re putting this up early to keep ourselves honest. There’ll definitely be tough days and knowing people are following along will help us get through them.

Mental health is something that affects everyone in some way and SAMH does a lot of great work supporting people across Scotland.

If you can donate, we’d really appreciate it! Every donation, big or small, means the world to both of us and to everyone who benefits from SAMH's incredible work.

Kyle & Liam