On Wednesday I launched my fundraising campaign by emailing and sending messages on Facebook to everybody I know, and some people I don't know very well, basically begging for money.
The response has been fantastic and I would like to say thanks to everybody who has pledged so far.
Thanks to the donations on www.justgiving.com/simonpeevers in the past four days I have managed to reach ten per cent of my £3000 target, which is a lot healthier than the 1 per cent I had before.
This is just the start of what I am hoping will be a long and sustained campaign to hit the target before too long.
Anybody who has done anything similar and has any useful tips would be great to hear from.
It does make me feel more determined to finish as well and I've a couple of good training runs this week.
This weekend I'm looking forward to a big run, about 10K, the first for a while. Hoping to do it before the rain engulfs the entire country as they said on the weather.
This challenge is really important to me personally, not because it plays to my vanity and wanting to look better having lost lots of weight, but genuinely because of the fantastic work done by the surgeons, nurses and everybody else at Southampton General Hospital, and the follow up treatment in Bristol.
I still can't believe that they were able to crack open my chest and stick a new part in my heart, sew me up and give me a new lease of life without me feeling a thing. It's a routine op for sure, but still pretty bloody amazing that we are able to do that.
So it's really in honour of them and the great work they do that I'm more than happy to put myself through a few months of physical pain. Which is ironic considering how hard they worked to make sure I didn't feel any pain.
So thanks again for all your donations, and thanks in advance to anybody who is thinking about making a donation and helping to beat the UK's biggest killer.
www.justgiving.com/simonpeevers
www.bhf.org.uk
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