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mrmason
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Hey everyone,
My names Ollie and myself and a team i have gathered up are doing a bit of a crazy fundraising event next year. Well my team are helping me organise it but the event is going to be conducted by myself.
So what is it? Firstly it's called 'The Water Run' it doesnt actually involve running
but where using the word run as you would when you say 'I'm going to run the kids down to school' or 'I'm just going to run down tescos and grab some food' so with that cleared up heres what i'm going to do and why... I'm going to be walking from John O'Groats to lands End, the walk will take me 60 days and it will consist of 1000 miles, but to add a bit of thought to the walk i will be carrying 20 litres of water un-aided, as you would imagine people in developing countries doing so.
That is pretty much the concept, the reason which i'm sure on a charity forum you already have guessed is that I'm doing it to raise awareness for the millions of people around the world who struggle to gain access to water whether it be clean or dirty. I would like to hear feedback from people, preferably constructive rather than destructive, we all know how forums can get so if there is any mention you'd like to put that is or can be viewed in a disregarding manor please do so via PM not that i could ever see someone doing so.
So anyway more about the walk, so far we have had lots of interest, polically, commercially and in the world of the celebs which is great news but it is to early on to tell any of the top secret endorsement stuff yet
Please do take a look at the site at thewaterrun.com it is still partially under construction but shall be fully ready to go in a matter of weeks, but 95% of it is viewable.
please do contact me if you have any ideas or thoughts other than that thank you for reading all of my babble and i hope to have your support when the time comes.
BTW the walk wont start untill 2nd july 2012, so plenty of time for my training to kick in hehe
My names Ollie and myself and a team i have gathered up are doing a bit of a crazy fundraising event next year. Well my team are helping me organise it but the event is going to be conducted by myself.
So what is it? Firstly it's called 'The Water Run' it doesnt actually involve running
but where using the word run as you would when you say 'I'm going to run the kids down to school' or 'I'm just going to run down tescos and grab some food' so with that cleared up heres what i'm going to do and why... I'm going to be walking from John O'Groats to lands End, the walk will take me 60 days and it will consist of 1000 miles, but to add a bit of thought to the walk i will be carrying 20 litres of water un-aided, as you would imagine people in developing countries doing so.That is pretty much the concept, the reason which i'm sure on a charity forum you already have guessed is that I'm doing it to raise awareness for the millions of people around the world who struggle to gain access to water whether it be clean or dirty. I would like to hear feedback from people, preferably constructive rather than destructive, we all know how forums can get so if there is any mention you'd like to put that is or can be viewed in a disregarding manor please do so via PM
not that i could ever see someone doing so.So anyway more about the walk, so far we have had lots of interest, polically, commercially and in the world of the celebs which is great news but it is to early on to tell any of the top secret endorsement stuff yet
Please do take a look at the site at thewaterrun.com it is still partially under construction but shall be fully ready to go in a matter of weeks, but 95% of it is viewable.
please do contact me if you have any ideas or thoughts other than that thank you for reading all of my babble and i hope to have your support when the time comes.
BTW the walk wont start untill 2nd july 2012, so plenty of time for my training to kick in hehe
