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Kate

Virtual Triathlon Challenge

Help Catherine raise £500!

My Activity Tracking

Your support to my challenge has helped me provide:

719

minutes of Breakthrough T1D research bringing us closer to a cure for T1D.

OR

359

printed copies of Breakthrough T1D's Straight to the Point guide. It covers vital information for anyone living with T1D to help manage the condition.

OR

28

children to have an initial screening test to help to detect T1D in its earliest stages to prevent un-diagnosed complications.

400,000 people are currently living with type 1 diabetes in the UK, I want to change that.

I have registered for the Virtual Triathlon, a challenge for Breakthrough T1D (the type 1 diabetes charity). From 1 February to 29 March, I will be swimming, cycling and running towards a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Breakthrough T1D funds world-class research, supports the T1D community and campaigns for broader NHS provision of treatments and technologies. Their collaborations with the best researchers in the world have led to new developments in diabetes technology and treatment.

This is where you come in. With your support and your generous donations, we can fund Breakthrough T1D’s important work. Just £20 could help towards the next big T1D breakthrough. Whatever you can donate, it is really appreciated.

Please Help Me
Reach My Goal

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£719 + £142.47 GiftAid

My Goal

£500

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My Achievements

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Completed Swim

Completed Cycle

Completed Run

Completed Triathlon

My Updates

And we're done!

Tuesday 25th Mar
I still hate running. 

Boom, final stage to go!

Saturday 8th Mar
Cycle, 112 miles. Done Swim 2.4 miles. Done Now for my least favourite stage.. the running. One is not, a runner. 2.2 miles down today, 24 to go! Keep those donations coming please- my knees need all the encouragement they can get for the final leg of this (nice pun, Kate! )

Smashing it

Saturday 1st Mar
I'm smashing it. 112 mile cycle, done. Swimming, 95% there- another 10 lengths of the pool and that's stage 2 complete. Just 27 miles to run and I've done a virtual triathlon. Could I have taken a prettier picture? Yeah. But this is what hard work looks like. I've never cared what I look like - but what I absolutely care about is fundraising to make a cure for T1D accessible to everyone. A massive thank you to all my sponsers so far - If you haven't yet sponsored me, anything you can spare would be appreciated. I don't want the next generation facing a life with T1D in it. So I'll look like a tomato to make that happen! #breakthrought1d #ironman #fundraising #charity #virtualtriathlon

Progress

Friday 21st Feb
Little bit of cycling on a Friday night and some swimming to knock out the park tomorrow. Probably best to not get so in the zone you're singing Mr.Pitbulls 'Fireball' song out loud. Whoops. #dexcomg6 #dexcomwarrior #ironman #t1dresearchfunding #breakthrought1d Thank you so, so much to all those that have sponsored me already - it's keeping me going!

And so, it begins.

Wednesday 12th Feb
Nice little 15 mile ish ride tonight to get us started

Let's see if I can do an Ironman. (Eek!)

Saturday 1st Feb
To be part of funding a cure for this  autoimmune illness that has, in part, defined and restricted my life is the sort of legacy I want to leave for my son. For his generation to be free of the burden of T1D.

Can I do a triathlon? Let's find out. 

Thank you to my Sponsors

£53

Nicky Stuart

Good luck. You’ll smash it xx

£30

Katie Butler-reay

Smashing Kate well done!

£27.05

Anonymous

£26.50

Liz Loft

Put those running shoes on Kate!

£26.50

Marie Harder

Well done Kate! What a mission!! Xx

£26.50

Kevin Holmes

GO KATE!

£26.50

Michael Davison

Good luck

£21.20

Alex Eves

Keep on smashing it Kate!

£21.20

Jake Rose

Well done Kate! Keep going! 👏 love Jake and Emily xx

£21.20

Sylvia Elsbury

You’ve Got This! X

£21.20

Anita Petitclerc

£21.20

James Letts

Good luck Kate!!

£21.20

Marie Dare

£21.20

Angie Lewis

Good luck. Keep me posted.

£21.20

Beth Ellis

Good luck Kate! You're smashing it

£20

Mike And Lorraine

Congrats on a massive achievement 🎉👏 Woop!

£20

Mandy Braybrook

You'll smash it!

£20

Alan Elsbury

Good luck

£20

Jo Pennell

Well done Kate, what an achievement. Almost beats stealing your Mums car when u were 12 ;) xxx

£16.56

Sophie Rose

You superstar x

£12.40

Cj Hollins

£11.66

Louise Wilding

Well done Kate!

£11.66

Joe Dubock

£11.66

Anonymous

£11.66

Laurence Bennett

You can do it!

£11.66

Ray Alderton

Good luck !

£10.60

Jason Morgan

Good luck!

£10.60

Some Old Australian Git

Smashed it!

£10.60

Danielle

Brilliant work so far ! Good luck x

£10.60

Aimee Dronfield

Good luck Kate!

£10.60

Vanessa Phillips

Good luck!

£10.60

Kieran Sait

£10.60

Claire Morgan

Well Done Kate!

£10.60

Gemma Brezinski

£10.60

Walter

Go go go!

£10

Hannah Chapple

Well done Kate! x

£10

Becca Prowles

Good on you mate, absolute inspiration..(still, rather you than me).

£10

Jonathan, Sarah, Ella & Bonnie

Well done Kate! 👏👏👏

£10

Catherine Brown

£10

Anonymous

£5.30

Cam

You're amazing!

£5.30

Akuzike Nkhalamba

Such an amazing cause and challenge. Rooting for you Kate!

£5.30

Anonymous

You've got this Kate! 🙂

£5

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