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On Thursday 11 July,  Lisa Dargan, Matt Thomas and Martin Jones from URM completed the
3 Peak Challenge (Ben Nevis, Scafell and Snowdon) in order to raise funds for Sarcoma UK and specifically a leiomyosarcoma (LMS) research project in memory of Martin’s wife who lost her life to LMS in 2021.

The 3 Peaks Challenge was organised and co-ordinated by Challenge Central. Alan Cook, Events Director at Challenge Central supporting and validating the event, has been impressed by their performance, commitment and resilience.

“Where teams are looking to complete the 3 Peaks Challenge within 24 hours, we typically allocate 11 hours to travelling and 13 hours to hill time, i.e., getting up and down the 3 mountains.  Whilst the travel time was impacted by the closure of the main A82 trunk road between Fort William and Glasgow, Matt, Lisa and Martin smashed the hill time target by over an hour in a very impressive 11 hours and 51 minutes, and in line with their 23 hour target.    I could see how super motivated they were to complete the challenge and raise money for a very worthy cause and in memory of Martin’s wife, Win.  I was also conscious of them feeling they didn’t want to let down those people who had already generously donated money to Sarcoma UK.   The Team was positive from start to finish and was very cohesive constantly supporting each other and showed great resilience in dealing with a range of adversities including testing weather conditions on 2 of the mountains, injuries and equipment failure (shoes falling apart). What impressed me just as much as their performance was the commitment of one of their work colleagues, Rachael, to drive in excess of 300 miles to support them on the last leg of the challenge at Snowdon.  Amazing!
In summary, it was a pleasure to support such a determined trio achieve their goals and help raise money for a very important Sarcoma cancer research project.”

If you would like to donate to this fund, please go to this Just Giving page.

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