This month’s Vision Fund recipients literally went the extra mile for their charity!
Bladeroom Data Centre’s Scott Allen and his friends James Axford and Ross Furnival, decided to go for the ultimate physical test, taking on the Race To The Stones 100km Ultra Marathon for Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust’s Children’s Hospital Charity. The race, which can take up to two days, follows the oldest path in Britain and runners shadow the footsteps of Romans and Vikings in their quest to reach the ancient stone circle at Avebury.
The trio’s chosen charity supports Bristol Children’s Hospital by funding pioneering, life-saving equipment and research. They have one vision for the future: to ensure every sick child and baby from across the South West has access to the very best care, 365 days a year.
Scott says, ‘We all got into running during the Covid-19 lockdown. Once the restrictions were lifted we continued running and thought to ourselves we should enter an event to raise money for a charity. I can honestly say it was the hardest thing I have ever done! The terrain was extremely tough, the elevation of 1369m was brutal and the weather was relentlessly hot with temperatures reaching 27 degrees with virtually no shelter. It took us 15 hours and 33 minutes moving time to complete and we finished gone midnight. We had fantastic support from our friends and family which really kept us pushing along, the thought of raising money for Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust’s Children’s Hospital Charity which is a close charity to our hearts.’