The Challenge
On Saturday 13th June, a team of 9 plus an amazing support crew set off on a Triathlon with a difference. This one started with a 4 hour hike up the ‘Old Man of Coniston’ mountain, which tested the legs a bit especially on the descent. After the hike it was the turn of the upper body and we kayaked across Coniston Water, 2 men to a kayak and of course it ended up getting a bit competitive, Oxford-Cambridge has seen nothing compared to us lot!
Cramping
The final leg of the Triathlon involved 2 laps around a very hilly route, totalling 50 miles and 4200ft elevation. A few of the guys suffered from painful leg cramping which left one of the team flapping around on the road like a fish out of water until the cramping subsided. The whole challenge took around 7 hours and the main reason of course was to raise money for a fantastic charity
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Sporting Footprints
Sporting Footprints was set up to raise money for sport, lifestyle and leisure equipment and opportunities for the families that use Bluebells Holiday home in Hampshire. Bluebells is funded by Sebastian’s Action Trust and is the first purpose built holiday home for families of children with lifelong and life limiting illness. Through challenges and fun days in the last 3 years Sporting Footprints has been able to fund Specialised wheelchairs, sensory equipment, music/art therapy, family days out, dry suits , memorial books, remembrance garden and cinema tickets.
If you would like to sponsor us or any of our team for this challenge you would be allowing us to continue to support these special families.
Total
For this challenge alone so far we have raise over £3000 for Sporting Footprints and Sebastian’s Action Trust and the figure is still rising.
My video of the day is here, feel free to watch and perhaps get inspired…