CHALLENGE #12
Spartan Race (Beast) (27.09.2015) - CHALLENGE COMPLETED
THE CHALLENGEBeastly Challengers
Amanda Chalmers - Leah Field - Andy Hehir - Ellie Howlett - Amy Drinkwater - Quita Harkess - Danielle Lewis-Collins - Abbey Gibbons Spartan Beast Race. Most people when they decide to take on a new challenge normally start at the easiest and work their way up, well I have decided to go straight for the toughest of the lot and enter the Spartan Beast race, a 20mile long cross-country run with about 25 muddy, painful obstacles thrown in your way! After trying to find out what most of these said obstacles actually are, I realised that they like to keep them quiet and just surprise you on the day, meaning Im not entirely sure what I am training for, but whatever it is, it is going to hurt! |
THE CHALLENGER
NAME - Amanda Chalmers I was once told, I am 'like a donkey with a carrot' and it’s true!! I enjoy a challenge, and need/want something to work towards. After being born with Cystic Fibrosis and my health declining to the point of needing and receiving a double lung transplant at the age of 24, these challenges have differed massively in range from climbing my stairs to my bedroom whilst on 24/7 oxygen therapy, learning to walk again after my transplant to training and completing the Brighton Marathon last year. So now with this years events down in my diary, training will once again commence and will yet again be working towards my carrot! I am doing both challenges to raise awareness for organ donation and to show what transplant patients are capable of doing with their second chance at life. This year is Harefield’s centenary, and I owe my life to the doctors and nurses who looked after me, before, throughout, and after my transplant. I am fundraising specifically for Organ Care Systems for Harefield Hospital, a new method of organ transportation extending the maximum time an organ can be safely outside the body before it is transplanted. This has the ability to increase the amount of transplants happening and lives saved, as well as providing other significant medical benefits. Currently these machines are not available on the NHS and so each hospital has to fund them for themselves.. |
THE CHARITYTO TRANSPLANT AND BEYOND
As well as raising awareness for organ donation, the money raised through To Transplant and Beyond is specifically for Organ Care Systems for Harefield hospital as it celebrates its centenary this year. OCS machines are a new method of organ transportation extending the maximum time an organ can be safely outside the body before it is transplanted. This has the ability to increase the amount of transplants happening and lives saved, as well as providing other significant medical benefits. Currently these machines are not available on the NHS and so each hospital has to fund them for themselves.
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PHOTOS / MEDIAPhotos to come post challenge.....
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