We are delighted to confirm that our Annual Charity day for this year will be Saturday 22nd June based at our new premises, ‘The Siabod @ the Eisteddfa Fishery’. This will be our 10th year of raising funds for remote villages in Nepal’s Himalayan foothills which together with Ian Draisey’s Moel Siabod Sportif (MSS) have raised over £120,000. We hope you can come along & support us on the day, for full details please visit

I did a reconciliation on monies raised this year for our Reach Out for Nepal fund & am pleased to announce that with your continued support we have raised over £6,500 this year. When added to the more than £3,400 raised by Ian Draisey’s MSS (Moel Siabod Sportif) that brings the total to £9,900 so thank you to all who have contributed again this year. Since Phil & I set out towards Moel Siabod at

Just a quick note of thanks to all those who attended the presentation on Saturday, very pleasant surprise to see 70 in the audience with all that is going on & indeed other events the same night & of course Callum Musket just up the road at PyB which was very well attended. On the night we raised £812.00 which means £406.00 will go to ROFN & £406.00 will go directly to the village of

I got three pleasant surprises for Run 3, firstly Paul who’d been with me on Run 2 & despite not doing marathons offered to come out again (this would set him up for nearly 22 miles pretty marathon like in these conditions). Secondly Johnathan Fish who I know quite well but have never run with turned up un-expectedly dressed in running kit & thirdly Lisa, a road runner whom I’d only met on Tuesday (when

The week leading into this year’s charity day saw me finally learning a bit with age, basically I tapered better than normal. There would be only one easy run on the Wednesday (5 miler up to our beloved CyB Waterfalls) & no getting trapped at the Cafe on the pot-washer unlike 2020 where a full stint at the Cafe had me a bit whacked just hours before I tried & failed to do 100 miles