Hi everyone I am not normally one to post personal stuff on the user group in my Blog but I feel this is worth the cause. From June the 10th - 14th I am taking part in the Microsoft UK Challenger event as part of one of the Micrsoft teams. We are specifically a 6 man community team comprising off 2 Microsoft members, Steve Loader and David Hobbs-Mallyon plus the 4 of us from the community including Tim Leung from Vbug, David McMahon from NextGen and Gavin Osborn from Vista Squad.
http://challenger.nspcc.org.uk/thechallenge/pages/theevent.aspx
The aim of the event is raise money for the NSPCC and in all honesty it is a brutal event for mind and body as it comprises of multiple stages over the days that involves Krypton factor style challengers but over the whole day. So we could be doing 3 hour bike/running + mental challenge in the morning followed by an afternoon mental and engineering challenge followed by a midnight Navigation and run challenge. As you can imagine I have been in heavy training getting ready for this and just returned from a weekends mini comp in the Peak District to get some pre race practice. - http://challenger.nspcc.org.uk/Pages/default.aspx
So how can you help - simple. The aim is to raise as much money as we can for the NSPCC and I appreciate we are all counting the pennies in the economic climate but any amount donated is welcomed. To donate it couldn't be simpler.
Go here - http://challenger.nspcc.org.uk/fundraising/teamsites/pages/Microsoft-Team3.aspx?TeamID=24
Click Sponsor this team and follow the insructions.
More info on the actual event can be seen here http://www.ukchallenge.co.uk/ and if you have any questions for me please just ask steve@combined-knowledge.com .
Thanks
Steve Smith