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I've been asked to put this up on behalf of Phatomch / Mike Clark or that fat bloke who used to run the GUKPT's. If this isn't ok please take down mod's, but it is for charity.

I've just started a new job and within the 1st few weeks agreed to do a 30.5 mile walk in aid of Clic Sargent. It's a great charity and worth killing myself by doing this walk. I've come to you with hat in hand looking for sponsorship. i've set up a just giving page that can be found here.

http://www.justgiving.com/mike-clark0

Believe it or not, i'm not famed for more sporting prowess and shifting my 20 stone+ bulk which is more used to walking to the fridge and back than from Andover to Southampton.

I will be walking with a group of work mates from Wetherspoons Andover at 07:00, to Winchester and then on to Southampton a total of 30.5 miles.

I will be doing this in fancy dress (yet to be decided on) and any ideas are welcome.  <-------- The highest donation can decide (within reason)

Cheers

Doogan, what's your name?

Tom, sorry should of added that.

Any questions please feel free to ask, im sure he's already asked a few of you on fb.

Sponsor me and Lee first, then I'll reciprocate.

+1
i am working my ass off

sponsorship shouldnt be about that Dan.

'Ohmygod! Is he still doing the Marathon!?” asks a woman, stopping to watch. Her eyes fill with tears. It is, indeed, a poignant sight. A severely disabled man summoning up every ounce of inner strength to walk the 26.2 miles of the London Marathon. The race finished nearly five weeks ago. Kate and Wills are married (he was inching through Deptford then); Osama bin Laden is dead. But this competitor still has 11 miles to go. Today he’s in Limehouse, fighting the daily horror of moving again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8528211/Eddie-Kidds-biggest-leap-of-faith.html

wow

Sorry Cos but it really should.

If people want to be sponsored they should be prepared to put their hands in their pockets when others ask for it.

I myself would never ask for sponsorship because I never dish any out.

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Disagree completely matt.

Phatomch might not have the dosh to give to charity. Everyone's circumstances are different. He's doing his bit though to raise money so boshi either donates or doesn't because he wants/doesnt want to.

agree with this.  Also most people probably have a certain amount they give to good causes - if it came down to a choice between sponsoring someone I didn't know as well but for a charity that's close to my heart, or someone I know a bit better raising money for something I wouldn't otherwise choose to support, then the choice of charity will be the deciding factor.

i am pretty skint at the moment
but i could not and would not of expected kinboshi to sponsor me if i did not sponsor him ....how could i ?

Lee you answered your own question.

If you are skint you cannot afford to donate. If kinboshi can afford to but chooses not to on the basis that you haven't sponsored him then that's pretty lame imo.

Fair anough. If somebody can't afford it then it's understandable that they don't sponsor someone.

I believe from reading previous (deleted) posts from Phatomch that his disposable income allows him to cross sponsor with Kin and Lee so in this case I'll stand by what I said.

Cos, please shut up.  I sponsored Lee ages ago - and he sponsored me.  He didn't need reminding lots of times either.

and i will agree to disagree

Dan, please do stick your head further up your own arse.

I was responding to Lee hypothetically. I don't agree that you should only give money to people who have given to you.

If it's hypothetical, stop including me in your statements then.  Not going to engage in a childish slagging match with you so will just ignore your posts from now on.

sigh, i thought i was on for a popcorn post.

I used to sponsor everyone, but it got beyond a joke where i was dishing out like £15 a week. Point blank refuse these days. If i want to give to charity I will send some money, but just because someone is sitting in a bath of beans for 5hrs doesn't make me dip into my pocket anymore.

don't get me wrong i don't sponsor loads myself but if someone is putting allot of effort into something then i will ....but people that want sponsorship for say a darts match .....no way

Just keep your hand in your pocket tight arse.

been away a little bit, will comment later, but agree with both arguments but thought they could of been made better.

fair point

Have to say, I agree with Cos, should sponsor someone if you can afford it, don't if you can't.

Bit like staking, I have been staked by loads on here, and have staked very few in return. Not through choice.

had to read that 3 times before I realised you said staking not stalking. couldn't work out why what was stopping you from stalking all the people you wanted to

Restraining orders, obv

running/walking 200+km in the sahara with the added bonus of dysentery, still did not make this man sponsor me!! I did get a msg from Mr Indestructable after the 2nd day of the race and this made up for the lack of sponsorship. (although the msg was telling me to sort myself out and quoting a price for me to beat my brother who was a 80+ minutes ahead of me)

As for sponsorship, it really is down to each persons discretion.

lol. Moral support is worth more than any weak donation i would have made to your back burner.

ill post this first then comment later.

Mike/phatomch is still looking for sponsorship for this, he even put in a steady 3 mile practice walk home from work.
He is happy to sponsor Lee and Kinboshi for a £10 a piece if they will repay the favour.

The costume has been finalised

turned out to be 40 miles, he did it but took injuries of a personal nature

He walked 40 miles?  I'm sorry, but I don't believe it.

it took 14 hours but he did it. took a wrong turn and added 3-4 miles on 1 stint

What do you mean by "stint" though?

they went from 1 wetherspoons to another (stint) he works for them now. Just done a map on roads walked and it was 37.8 miles so just short of the 40

So he walked 40 miles in the one day?

37.8 but yes. Took 14 hours and raised a total of £580 for clic sargent and £80 each for hampshire air ambulance and help for heroes

Wow!! This is an amazing achievement.

I did about 4 miles this afternoon with my friend and our dogs and because of the 25 degree heat it took nearly 2 hours. We usually do 6 to 8 miles and are obviously reasonably used to walking but we had to cut it short because of the conditions.

I can't begin to imagine how I could've done this 10 times over!!

Couldn't have picked a tougher day to walk nearly 40 miles!!

To do it in 14 hours is almost beyond belief!! Truly well played.

How many Wetherspoons were on the route? Did they stay for long at each one?

Well I'm not going to call you a liar, but I'm reasonably fit and I frequently walk long distances, and I couldn't do it.

what about if you had a couple of grams of good quality marching powder?

 rotflmfao

that wins the internet! vwp!

Couldn't have stayed at (m)any for long at all, as he was doing 22min/mile pace as an average for the day and that's not a bad walking pace.  Add in a few stops (which you'd have to for loo breaks, drinks, picking up food etc., and that means the actual average pace would have been a lot faster.

he done it in 14hrs 37mins, started at andover spoons then to winchester, eastleigh, shirley (southampton), lodon road (southampton), ocean village (southampton) and high street (southampton).

Stayed in winchester for a hour as he led  the pack and had to wait for the back of the pack, eastleigh for 20 minutes, shirley for 20, london road for 10, ocean village 15 and finished at the high street.

A big factor was his brother also did it and helped set a fast steady pace. No powders involved.

Photos of him at first few pubs to follow, when he has them from people who took them.

mike said, im sure you could if you had a brother pushing you physically and mentally and with the thought of doing it for a charity and your word that you will do it driving you. He's a big guy but has stamina, long distance walking is about having the correct equipment and the mental ability to just keep going regardless

Doogan, can we have a pic of u and mike clark together pls

Doogan. Do you know that your blonde name is an anagram of 'o gonad'.

Lee, did you do rest stops or take "breathers" and if so, how long for?

How did you feel the next day?

Are you as amazed that Phatomch managed to walk 37+ miles without dieting or training?

we took rest stops when one of us needed to

going up the hills we took the most breaks but they was not for long ...just a breather

i pushed my body to its limit as Kev said the 5.5 miles back was a killer i could hardly walk.

the next day and yesterday i have struggled to walk my calf's are in so much pain my groin and hamstrings feel like they are on fire!!

i feel a bit better today and am only limping a bit lol


as for  Phatomch walking 37 miles is truly amazing i only done 25 with a couple of hills in the way fair play to the man!

From Phatomch previous posts I would imagine he had marching powder onboard.

phatomch didn't have any powder and he lost nearly 3 stone in 7 weeks since starting work.

as for the walk, he did it and im surprised at the post on someone else's thread Red.

if you dont believe him then fine but don't invade someone's thread who has done a good thing for charity, in fact  both of them done good things for charity.

As for not believing phat because you couldnt walk it he has got 30 years on you.

With respect. I can post on any thread I like and I didn't say I don't believe him.

I will however have a prop bet that he can't do it again any time soon with me following along on my bike.

i agree yes you can post on any thread but , maybe shouldn't hijack lee's. (only my thoughts).

the previous posts on my thread basically  showed you didnt believe him/me and he is happy to do take the prop if enough can be raised for charity and will even let you choose 1 charity and will do a 50/50 split on that and h4h.

If he wins he can donate the money to charity if he wishes. I will do my own donating as and when it suits me in private.

As far as I'm concerned this is just a bet between two blokes. How much does he want to bet and when does he want to do it?

he goes back to work tomorrow and will look at rota's but he reckons end of july as he will haveto take a few days off work and say £500. The route will have to be roadways from a hotel back to hotel.

I said any time soon, but tell him to offer me a date that's suitable and I'll let him know if we're on closer to the time.

he's only just taken a week off for his birthday and holidays are booked for managers for the next few months so days off are already planned. Im sure you understand that it hard to take time off at short notice as will need to travel and a day to recover

And I'm sure that you can see that if he knows he is capable of walking 20 miles now, that the would like 6 weeks to try and train up for the other 17.



 

fair point. I can say i was at the finish line with his parents and his brothers wife so I know he did it but everyone is welcome to their own opinion. If he could do it any sooner he would but having split days off for the next 4 weeks makes it impossible to do

I'm not disputing that he crossed the finish line. In fact I wasn't disputing anything until you pulled me up.

Anyway. Tell him to let me know when he has time to do it.

is it possible all this can be moved to phatomch thread anyone that's interested in my walk or looking for info about my walk has to go through all this?

My apologies. I'll try to move it.

can someone add this to Phatomch's thread please?

You boys play nicely now in here.

sorry Lee

u tell them Lee. Thread jacking mofo's

thanks all
good luck with the prop