Running 5km, the Olympics and raising enough money for the bus home

Running five km should be a doddle for most men in the 20s or 30's. However, add in the fact that we had to wear full cricket pads, and that certain members of the team had eaten their body weight in barbecued meat the night before, and suddenly this casual saunter turned into an ominous Herculean task. However, we all succeeded in completing the run without developing serious inter-legular rashes, and managed to raise a whopping £2.50!!!

In addition to raising 100,000th of our target amount, perhaps the biggest achievement of the day was managing to secure an original Olympic torch from the 1948 London Olympics, which we have been asked to take up to base camp with us in April for the big match. This was the icing on the cake of what was probably one of the most English events that I have ever taken part in: mixing cricket and mountaineering whilst running past a spitfire outside the Houses of Parliament, before giving a swift salute to Churchill's plinth and finally jogging across the finish line with Chariots of Fire playing through the PA system...bloody brilliant.