In a moment of midlife crisis as I turned 50 last year and also wanting to something in memory of my Dad, I decided to sign up for the London Marathon, some 23 years after my only ever previous one. I didn't get into the London one, but I did get a place down at the home of football - so on Sunday April 6th I will hopefully complete the Brighton Marathon.

Just Giving can't equally allocate any donations to two charities, so there are two links. Anything at all you can give would be amazing - even £10 would be brilliant, lots of £10 is still lots of money.

You are on the Cancer Research page and the link to the Mind Mental Health page is here

https://www.justgiving.com/page/rich-bolch-1

After more and more friends had/have been diagnosed with some form of cancer, I thought this is what I will run it for, as outside of trying to raise a bit of money, there is nothing else I can really do to support - so you know who you are, this is for you.

Then a week to the day after my 50th, I heard the news about my second cousin and centre midfielder partner Andy, who we tragically lost that day at the age of 34. After the funeral and after I had spoken to his Dad - I decided to raise for Mind, the mental health charity as well.

I am sending this out only a week before, because based on my past record, I assumed I would get injured - but that hasn't happened, I've finished all the boring long Saturday morning runs & training has gone fairly OK, so it looks like we are game on!

I'd love the donations to be around equal, but I would imagine these two charities are also very personal to some you all as well, so anything you can give to either of them is brilliant.

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