3 Peaks Challenge - Completed

Dear all,

Thank you all so much for sponsoring me. The event is now over but I will keep this page open for another week or so. You have all been very generous and your sponsorship is much appreciated. The money raised will go to Colonia Ecologica in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

About the challenge: We got the Gold Medal. It was a tough 24 hrs or should I say 17 hrs and 43 mins!! Only 13mins away from a platinum medal! We started the challenge at 18:40hr in Scotland. It was a very hot day but luckily we didn't have to start too early. The weather wasn't in our favour as it was too hot to set an even better time. 112 teams joined the event and we came 19th overall, the second fastest gold medal.

These are the times of the 3 climbs:

Ben Nevis: start - 18:40 / top - 20:33 / finish - 21:42 / total - 3:02hrs

Scafell Pike: start - 05:13 / top - 6:38 / finish - 7:37 / total - 2:24

Snowdon: start - 12:54 / finish - 14:16 / total - 1:22

A total of 11hrs is added as driving time. This time is the same for all the participating teams. We also had five minutes taken off for our kit check on Scafell Pike, giving us a total of 17 hrs 43 minutes.

Thanks again for your support. Don't worry if you think you have to sponsor me again next year, I don't think I will be able to do this ever again! It takes a lot out of you and you have to train very hard (especially if you have a desk job like me).

A special thanks to Claire (my wife) and Carina (my 2 year old daughter) for putting up with me through the training period. I will now be able to spend more time with them and do more enjoyable things. I would also like to thank Claire's parents for putting up the team at one of our training weekends and helping to look after Carina during the actual event.