Double Challenge July: Check!

July is all about colourful running and vertical drops

There’s nothing like the height of summer to challenge yourself a little extra so that’s what we did. DOUBLE CHALLENGES! Plus an extra surprise which made July a triple whammy! Read on and see what July had in store for us…

First thing's first, Maria and I participated in our second crazy themed 5k run, the COLOUR RUN in Manchester. I think we were slightly more excited for this one because we had such an ace time with the Electric Run, also, what could possibly be more fun than being pelted with colour powder at various checkpoints?!

As you can see, it got pretty messy. Props to both of us for not stopping at all, hooray for improvement (on my part, Maria can run forever anyway).

 

 

 
 

It seems we’ve started a tradition of immediately following a 5k with a second challenge, like the following day immediate! Breaks are for schmucks.

Sunday morning found Maria and I arriving at Aston Villa Football Stadium feeling more than a little anxious because we were about to embark upon a 100ft freefall abseil, as in SUSPENDED IN MID AIR BY ONE ROPE! Feel free to start calling us brave right about now.

 

 

As someone who is fully intending to jump out of a plane (date pending) climbing to a walkway 100ft up shouldn’t have been an issue for me, but man, do I hate climbing ladders! It was actually the hardest part. Maria was of course the fearless leader, striding toward the abseil instructor with zero hesitation. Needless to say, we both aced the abseil, descending with much grace and finesse as you can see from these pictures:

 

 

All in all it was a pretty perfect weekend, the only thing missing was Noni who was unfortunately unable to join us (heights - gross) and to top it off we actually exceeded our initial donations target of £1000!!!!!! Can you believe it?! Keep the donations coming, we want to hit the target out of the park! 

Thank you so so so so much to everyone who has donated so far and supported us on every single one of our challenges, we’re only half way through since the intention has always been to keep going until December. There are plenty of fun/tough events coming up so stick around, see what’s coming up next and keep donating for a great cause!

Much love,
Georgie, Maria and Noni

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