Right fellow Wednesdayites I need your assistance. On Friday 10th May I will start the first of 10 marathons in 10 consecutive days on the same course running round Lake Windermere in the Lake District, thats 262 miles. The club have kindly donated a signed shirt which I will collect at the match on Saturday and auction to the highest bidder early next week. They are also putting a section in the programme about my challenge, so MASSIVE kudos to them.
My Wednesday credentials are fairly respactable, I'm a home and away regular, travelling to home games from Harrogate and my away trips this season include Cardiff, Millwall and Watford among many others. Its fair to say fitting in training, work and Wednesday hasn't been easy.
I'm doing all this to raise money for Brathay Trust. These people help disadvantaged children in the UK. Working with youngsters that have been through the care system, kicked out of school, involved in gangs, basically haven't had the luckiest of starts to their lives. Brathay work with these kids to give them the skills to allow them to reintegrate back into the real world and reduce reoffending rates by a MASSIVE (!) 70%. Every penny raised goes directly to these youngsters. I've seen some of the amazing work they do, truly inspiring.
I managed to get hold of s signed Sunderland shirt and was overwhelmed by there generosity, raising over £300 for the shirt and indivudal donations, but I'm convinced Wednesdayites are more generous.
So if you have any spare change or maybe due to the early kick off you'll have 1 less pint then feel free to donate this money to Brathay. Right now it helps my nerves before I attempt the challenge.
Follow the journey on Twitter at @oh_johnny_boy
Or donate at http://www.justgiving.com/JohnG10in10
UTO - and thank you
PS - I'm sure the shirt will be very popular once we avoid relegation on Saturday