We were all amazed and very pleased to learn what a strenuous schedule Matt and liz would be undertaking to raise funds for Trust PA this year. Just for anyone who's not aware; Matt was Paul-André (PA's) motor racing partner in the Custard Tart Racing Team and met Liz (PA's cousin) while visiting PA in hospital. It is now seven years later and they have been married for 18months and looking for a new exciting challenge.
Their impressive list of fundraising tasks were done through 2009:
Feb 2009 - Winter Climbing in Scotland
March 15th - Bath Half Marathon
April 13th - Steyning Duathlon
April 18th/19th - BARC Westfield Champs Round 1 Rockingham
May 9th/10th - BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 2&3 MalloryPark
May 20th/23rd - Welsh 3000 event
June 6th/7th - BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 4&5 Brands Hatch
June 27th/29th - BARC Westfield Champs Round 6 Thruxton
July 18th/19th - BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 7&8 Castle Combe
August 22nd/23rd- BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 9&10 Croft
Sept 12th/13th - Climb Mont Blanc
Sept 27th/28th - BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 11&12 Snetterton
Oct 11th - Chicago Marathon
Matt wrote: As you can see, we're both planning on doing some endurance events and will be updating our blog (see link below) with progress to date. In addition I'll be racing my Westfield in the BARC Westfield Championship this year and hoping to be able to upload some video of the races if I can figure out how.
Matt in Westfield all prepared to race atRockingham Motor Speedway
Trust PA is funding vitally important ground breaking work to enable the repair of spinal cord injury paralysis.
We would love you to help us through our 2009 events to raise as much sponsorship as possible please to offset the pain and suffering and turn it into satisfaction of a job well done!Our fundraising page will stay open till 11th November 2009 so you can still help us after the events: