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Published on Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:33

Written by Super User

Hello everyone,

We are once again raising funds for Cystic Fibrosis. For the last few years we have participated in the Great Strides walk. However this year, I will take on, Ironman Lanzarote, upping the ante somewhat from a gentle family walk to a3.8k swim, 180k bike ride and 42k run.

The idea of doing the Ironman in 2012 was initially conceived 10 years ago with 3 friends from University as a way to mark the end of our 4th decade, and it gives me great comfort (and joy!) knowing that they too will be standing nervously on the start line at 6:45 am in just 10 days time.

The race starts at 7:00 am GMT (2:00 am EST) and I hope to finish in around 12 hours 7:00 pm GST (2:00 pm EST). Approximately 1 hour for the swim, 6 hours 30 mins biking and then 4 hours 30 mins for the marathon).... but don’t hold to me that! If I shuffle across the finish at any time before the midnight cut off I’ll be happy.

To make possible this ambitious goal, Isabelle and I with Olivia (6), Sophia, Cristina (3) and Hugo (6 months) moved to the Canary Islands in January. Olivia, Sophia and Cristina attend the local school and are thoroughly enjoying the Canarian life, we now hear them play and sing in Spanish with school friends around the house.

As many of you will already know, our dream as a family is that a cure for CF will be available for our daughter Olivia before the degenerative nature of CF has had any profound effect. To this end, there have been numerous major advances in CF research in the last 12 months. The ultimate goal of a cure is getting closer and we are extremely grateful for your continued support in helping us to realize our dream, for Olivia.

To make it easy to donate we are again using the Great Strides website, We invite you to sponsor Olivia by clicking on the link below (a tax receipt will be automatically emailed).

http://www.cysticfibrosis.ca/en/GreatStrides/index.php

click “sponsor a walker”, once again click “sponsor a walker”, Enter Participant Name: “Olivia McNeill” click “Search”.

We are hopeful of beating last years fundraising total of $12,000, to this end, we would appreciate it,  if you could forward this to anyone to whom it could be of interest.

Thank you so much for your continued generosity & support.

Steve, Isabelle, Olivia, Sophia, Cristina & Hugo.