So. It’s been a bit of a week on many levels, but if I manage nothing else it will be to let you guys know that I need you to chuck a bit of cash my way – that is to say, would you mind terribly sponsoring me to run the Bristol half marathon in September, in aid of The AMAZING Transparency Project (if you don’t know why we’re amazing take a look at our website or the links below). We’re in the process of applying for charitable grants, but in the meantime we could do with any contribution you are able to make, whether through sponsorship or some other form of donation. You can click the link below to find out more about my individual fundraising effort, or you can look at The Transparency Project’s own fundraising page to see the various ways you can donate. OR, if you are feeling really lazy you can text TRPR16 £10 to 70070 to donate (this will donate £10, if you want to donate a different amount just change the amount in your text).

I would really like to get a team together to run with me (even if you are slower – or, more likely, faster – than me and we don’t actually run *together*. If you think you are up for the challenge let me know. At present I can just about run half the distance without having a cardiac event, so I have a pretty epic training feat ahead of me. I will post updates on this blog from time to time, but hopefully not so frequently that they are terribly tedious…I can promise pictures of me in due course looking unattractively red and sweaty but victorious*.

And if you can’t donate, do tweet the link to this blog post or to my fundraising page here : https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Lucy-Reed2.

Thanks, you.

*that last bit is not guaranteed