Forgive the interruption

I'm an idiot.
It's true, I can give you a list of people that would agree with me.
And that's ok, you know? Those people often are pretty accurate with their opinion, I have been known to do stupid things and stupid things tend to follow me around, it's a part of my life I've learnt to embrace.

I'm running a half-marathon.

13.1 miles
21.08 kilometres
My house to Maidstone.
My flat to Wembley.
Half the distance from Dover to Calais.

A REALLY BLOODY LONG WAY.


Sponsor me. I'll put up the links when I have them set up. I'm donating to two incredibly worthwhile charities who have directly affected my family and have helped thousands of others. I will detail these when I have the justgiving site up as you'll be able to see exactly where your money will go, instead of reading now and forgetting about it in 6 weeks time.

If this happens, I'll post pictures but donate more

It's in March. So you have plenty of time to donate, then save up, then donate a bit more. You gave generously when I grew an irritating moustache for Movember and that was wonderful. It was itchy and it looked prepubescent but it was for a good cause, one close to my heart, and that's what matters with fund raising.

Now, I'm not going to lie and say this was a snap decision. As I'm sure most people do, I have a little list in my head of things I must achieve in my life, things that I've always thought would add to my legacy. I don't expect I'll have much of a legacy but the only way to find out is to try and see how big it gets (that's what she said).

I won't list it all for you but running a marathon is on that list. Why? Why the freak not. It's a gruelling task, a talking point and if I can help a charity by lifting one leg up and putting it in front of the other, why would I not. Hell, if Phiddipides can run 26 miles to deliver a message of "we won" having just fought a battle, I'm sure I can do it fuelled by Lucozade (official energy drink of choice for Alex's run, I'll expect a cheque soon please Lucozade people). He did die shortly after from exhaustion but that's not a fact I'm going to dwell on.

So yeah, apologies for the now split content of music/marathon training. But then I don't really mean that sorry as if it makes you donate and donate some more, it'll have been worthwhile.