The Very Beginning!

Sat 28th March 2009

"Lets start at the very beginning, its a very good place to start!"

It was on this night that Laura and I got together over dinner to discuss an idea of mine...yes I know...I can hear you saying...thats always dangerous!

I had been wanting to do something different for while but had been struggling to put my name to anything. It was then with my dad (Richard Plowright) being diagnosed last year with Prostate Cancer that really inspired me to do something that would make a difference.

Having thought about signing up for a fundraising challenge for only a couple of weeks I ordered some information over the internet and waited to see what came...

...Discover Adventure.

So there I was contemplating the challenges infront of me,
Hadrian's wall weekend trek...no
London to Paris bike ride...no
Great wall of China trek...no
Cuba cycle challenge...no
and then there it was...on the very last page
Abel Tasman beach and mountain trek.

That was it I'd found something that would keep me busy and hopefully out of trouble!

All I needed now was a very good friend!

Now finding a good friend wasnt going to be hard, but finding one willing to fundraise for 7 months, stick to an extreme training programme and then climb 2 mountains was going to be a little more tricky!

However, there was no need to panic.
The offer of dinner on more than one occassion, serveral nights out, fancy dress pub crawls, sampling chocolates and cakes for raffles and holding a glam charity auction night and she had accepted the challenge!

So thank you Laura.

Without you I would not have signed that form so readily!

Heres to great friends, great fundraising, and a great adventure enabling us to raise the profile of Prostate Cancer.

XXX