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Weʼve raised £3,385 to Complete the Marathon de Sables a multi day ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert to raise money and awareness for FamiliesforHoPE
- Northampton, United Kingdom
- Funded on Tuesday, 28th February 2017
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I will be running the toughest foot race on the planet in 2017 which is called the Marathon Des Salbes. This is a 6 day ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert that will cover 251 km or 156 miles on the year I turn 40. I will also be running on behalf of a super charity called Families for HoPE to raise awareness in the work they do and money to support them in their work. This is centred around children who are diagnosed with Holoprosencephaly which is a congenital brain disorder.
I was matched with a young girl with this disorder on an awesome Facebook group called I run for Michael. Only 3% of children who are diagnosed with this as a foetus make delivery and the vast majority of these do not make it past 6 months. Hanna is still going strong since her birth in February 2013 and she is one of the most awesome amazing people I have ever had the pleasure to come across. Her attitude is an inspiration and if this helps her and others like her it is worth the efforts.
I will be keeping a blog throughout my journey onto the Sahara ready for my race in April 2017, I will also be uploading information about families for HoPE if you would like further details.
I am aiming to raise such a vast amount as it can do a lot of good for this amazing charity and the fantastic work they do. I will be using part of the donation to fund the race itself, which is around £3500 so any corporate sponsors that can help this would be amazing and the rest will go to families for HoPE, which hopefully will be around £6500 to £7000.
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- 8 years ago
Lynton Dawson
8 years agoFirstly a big thank you to everybody for your support. I was fortunate enough to go BBC Radio Northampton today to talk about my challenge and my reasons behind it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d2tqt I'm on at 1hr16mins for just over 10mins if you would like to listen.
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Paula McAllister
Feb 27, 2017
Happy 40th Birthday Bro. Thank you for doing this and good luck! Love from all of us
£70.00
Janell Brunton
Feb 27, 2017
Good luck Lynton! We will be thinking of you. X
£50.00
Anonymous
Feb 27, 2017
£50.00
Yvonne Thornton
Feb 26, 2017
Good luck Lynton. You have the strength to do this.
£10.00
Katy Rogers
Feb 25, 2017
Good luck on the crazy challenge!
£20.00
lucy parry
Feb 24, 2017
Been following your training really impresssive. Best of luck x Lucy (Parry)
£5.00
Debbie Morton
Feb 21, 2017
All the best for this Lynton, very inspiring 💪🏽
£30.00
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Lynton Dawson
Northampton, United Kingdom
I am about to turn 40 and am happily married to my beautiful wife Melany and father to two fantastic children aged 3 years and 7 weeks 😄