There are three reasons for making this trek. Besides the personal challenge of completing it, promoting a healthy, active lifestyle, I am also planning to raise money for The Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals. The Society’s figures on the appalling neglect of animals speak for themselves. I want to do my bit to help cruelly treated and abused animals, many of which I encountered throughout my travels.
I am a highly motivated, results oriented individual with enormous determination and a proven aptitude for achieving goals. Although I have average athletic abilities, I have elite determination and ambition with a strong desire to conquer new challenges. My running history includes three marathons, a lot of half marathons, and a 67km ultra distance. The London Marathon was my final warm-up for Mission Possible!
My interest in running started a couple of years ago when I started training for Trailwalker, a 100km walk in Hong Kong. Soon after that I began running, to date I have completed almost a dozen half marathons, two marathons: Honolulu Marathon, 4:34, and the Tsing Ma Bridge Marathon in HK with a PR of 4:26 after having just run a 67km ultra distance race three weeks earlier. Now, after having completed two marathons and training for my third, I am preparing for another major challenge. At thirty years of age I am planning to run over 5000km across Australia from Perth to Sydney to raise money for animal welfare. I have chosen Australia because I lived there for a year and loved it.
I'm Canadian, aged 30. After completing two years of university in Canada I decided to do some travelling. A planned year abroad has stretched to nine, with time living and working in Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan, and the last four and a half years in Hong Kong. Jobs abroad have included fruit picking, door-to-door encyclopaedia sales, bar tending, teaching English, and running my own professional development company conducting communication skills courses for businesses, and business professionals in HK.