Regular followers of our Twitter account or readers of the Up & Running blog will have come across a few things (tweets and posts) relating to a chap running for charity who goes by the name user name Moochoo (real name Simon Wheatcroft) http://www.andadapt.com/about/ .
Simon is challenging himself to run 100 miles in one go on 24th of June (Cotswold 100).
It may seem extremely difficult, inspirational and perhaps mental, what makes this even more remarkable is the fact that Simon is regisered blind. Simon suffers from a degenerative eye disorder called Retinitis Pigmentosa. For the past 10 years he has been registered blind. So while there is a physical challenge to run this distance there is also the practicalities of such an undertaking.
It may seem extremely difficult, inspirational and perhaps mental, what makes this even more remarkable is the fact that Simon is regisered blind. Simon suffers from a degenerative eye disorder called Retinitis Pigmentosa. For the past 10 years he has been registered blind. So while there is a physical challenge to run this distance there is also the practicalities of such an undertaking.
We at Up & Running came across him through Twitter when he was looking for pacers, we managed to 'connect' him with a few people and the rest is..... well not history, more the future. As of this post Simon still has just over 3 ½ weeks to prepare for the event and to raise money for his chosen charity SightSavers. His just giving site is based at http://www.justgiving.com/andadapt
In order to build upon the momentum of his challenge he has also set up a website called http://www.blind100.com This has been created to track his progress and his challenge.
We encourage everyone to follow Simon and his amazing challenge through the following links....
http://twitter.com/moochoo (using hashtag #blind100)
We will be watching, following, cheering and supporting Simon all the way. Hope you can to.
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