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00:00I guess I'll just start off you then. Just tell us about what you're doing today.
00:0412 hours, Stairmaster, SkiErg in the rowing machine, so just hit the halfway mark.
00:11And I'm doing an hour on each, so this is my third stint on the SkiErg.
00:15How are we getting there?
00:16An hour on each?
00:17Yeah, an hour on each time. I think I'm going to have to break it down, I think.
00:20In the second half, it's getting quite tough on the SkiErg, my arms are on fire.
00:23Yeah, I was going to say, how's the body feeling at the minute?
00:25It's quite broken, but the gym has been spot on, loads of members have popped in, showing some support, so it's made it a bit easier.
00:32I was going to say, we're six hours in, six to go.
00:34Yeah, yeah.
00:36Great, so why are you raising money for today? What's the cause you're looking at?
00:41It's a bit of a Christmas dinner. It's a local charity. A gym member in here has given up her Christmas for it, so we don't go into too much detail about it.
00:49It's a bunch of volunteers, giving up their day, local businesses. They donate money, we've got waitrose, they're donating all the food for it.
00:57They rent out the facility, and then it's for the children and young adults who don't have a Christmas like we probably will have our Christmases.
01:05And then they manage to get them some dinner, they all get to kind of create that community feel, and then it gets them a present from their wishlist,
01:14which, to us, was probably a normal present when I read it, and some of them were like, I just want a bottle of aftershave.
01:20As their wish, it really hit home, so I thought, let's do something to help.
01:25Why this challenge? How did the idea for it come about?
01:28We've done a few charities before, so a few different events, and they've all been five, six hours.
01:33So I thought, one, this is going to be a challenge for myself, let's really try and push, see what anybody can do.
01:39And then two, just for, could have done a few six-hour charities, a lot of people really get involved in the donations.
01:45Just wanted to do something where they're thinking, ah, it's not the same, it's a bit different, so really try and push to gain as much money as we can for the people at Christmas Dinner.