Thanks for visiting my fundraising page 👋🏼

Following on from my charity fundraising initiative last year, I thought I'd give it another go for another great cause with the National Autistic Society.

The National Autistic Society's vision is to create a society that works for autistic people by providing support to autistic people and their families, improving public understandings of autism, and delivering autism-friendly services.

My wonderful niece, Kaelyn, sees the world in her own brilliant way - and if hundreds of training hours, a full Ironman, a marathon (and more events to come!) helps support a world that understands and supports her and other remarkable humans like her better - then bring it on 💪🏼

She inspires me with her strength, cleverness, joy and determination - and this is my way of cheering her on - while hoping she appreciates the effort slightly more than my body will 😅

Those who know me will also probably attest that I'm also on the neurodivergent spectrum with pretty bad ADHD, I never saw anyone about it, and following events from this year and few friends who have recently been diagnosed pretty late in life - I have decided that I will also get it looked into in 2026 to see how to better manage it...

Every kilometer in 2026 will be for Kaelyn, Team Autism and a world full of all kinds of minds 🩷

My sport calendar is still taking shape but for now there are two A Races:

- Ironman Austria in June (that's a 3.8km swim, followed by 180km of biking followed by 42km of running - a follow on from my successful 70.3 in October)

- The BMW Berlin Marathon in September (one of the largest marathons in the world and will see me run the historic streets of Berlin and finish at the Brandenburg Gate - I'm aiming for a sub 3h30 race time)

It's been quite the journey to get here over the past year: going from heavy smoking, drinking and eating and no sport in 20 years to losing 30 kg's, 600+ hours of exercise in 2025, clothing from XL to S (sometimes XS), stopped smoking, drink very rarely and went from the bottom 5% VO2 Max for my age to the top 5% - this is only the beginning though...

I would be ever so grateful if you could help donate, whatever you are comfortable with, towards this great cause - giving feels good :)

From this page, you can follow my fitness progress as I have connected my Strava (if you’re also on there then you can connect with me here) and you can check out my site and photography here.

I'll be dropping occasional updates on this page and don't hesitate to leave a comment or share something inspirational to help cheer me on 🙌🏼

I wish you and yours a 2026 full of much health, happiness and love 🥂

And let's all remember to count our blessings, show gratitude and help our neighbours as we are all on this journey of life together.

A beautiful age-old African philosophy and word that sums this up is Ubuntu which essentially means "I am because we are" or "humanity towards others".