To celebrate National Fitness Day (Wednesday 22nd September) we would like to tell you about our Two Toms taking on physical challenges to raise money for the CCSS.
Tom North, our North West coordinator will be running the Manchester Marathon on Sunday 10th October. The run was originally scheduled for April 2020 but was delayed due to covid. Tom has been mostly training along the large number of canal towpaths that are located in Manchester. He has completed one marathon before, a number of years ago in Kielder, Northumberland with a time of 4 hours 30 minutes. The Manchester route is considerably flatter than Kielder, so Tom is hoping to complete the run in under 4 hours.
Tom Firmin, a grandson of our Founder Trustee Roey Burden, will be completing an Ironman Challenge on October 23rd in Portugal. An Ironman Challenge consists of 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bicycle ride and a 26 mile run. On Sunday 19th September, Tom completed a half Ironman in 4 hours 49 minutes as part of his training in sunny Weymouth.
We are grateful to the Two Toms for taking on these tough challenges on our behalf. They will both be giving us regular updates from their training in the lead up to the races. Links to sponsor the Two Toms will be available in the coming days.
