Help Ryan and Adam survive the wild!

[Adam]

@Everyone

I've often joked that I could easily go 2 weeks without leaving the house and think nothing of it. So imagine me, out in the savage, unforgiving wilderness of...err... the Peak District for an entire day with Ryan, completely unable to escape the relentless onslaught of great ideas on how to push BTC forward by pretending I haven't seen his Slack messages!

Here's what's happening:

Who? 2 of your BTC head honchos, me and Ryan (Martin said something about washing his hair, strangely before we'd even told him what date it was!)
What? A 26 mile, marathon charity hike in the Peak District. Hopefully more Bear Grylls than Brokeback Mountain...
When? Way too soon to start training at this point - this Saturday!
Why? Because charity is important and I need an excuse to buy some hiking gear in Prime Day that I'll probably never use again

Seriously though, we're hitting the trails for the marathon Mighty Hike to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support and I'm here to awkwardly ask you to donate whatever you can to the cause.

Your donations all go to Macmillan and every penny counts. Plus, if we raise enough, they might send a rescue team to find us when we inevitably get lost.

Why should you donate? Well, besides the warm and fuzzy feeling you'll get from doing a good deed, here are some totally legit reasons:

Karma Points: Your good deed today = huge trading win tomorrow (guaranteed, probably, maybe).
Entertainment: I promise to post some photos of my blisters (wait, tell me there will be phone signal up there?!)
Help BTC: I have no doubt that we'll manage to ruin a perfectly pleasant countryside walk by talking lots of business (don't make me say "blue sky thinking", I beg you) and come up with lots of ideas on how to make the service better!

If you're down with any of this, please head for the link below and give whatever you can spare and help us reach our fundraising goal. Do it for the charity. Do it for the laughs. Do it to see if we can actually make it to the finish line without ending up in a tree.

Donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/team/ryansmightyteam

You can donate to either of us, however you will notice that at the time of writing this, I am lagging behind a bit... cough

Thanks, and may your feet be always free of blisters, even if ours aren't.

[Ryan]

How happy we were in that first pic lol

[Adam]

Thanks so much to everyone who donated.

It was a great day, even if I do still feel like my legs have been run over by a monster truck 2 days later!

I was doing OK until about mile 21, other than some serious foot ache. Then the blisters started forming. Then, at around mile 24, one of them burst!

Fortunately, I had these bad boys:

Holy sh*t, I swear I'm buying shares in this company. I peeled my sock off my foot and stuck one of these on my sweat-drenched, gnarled hoof and it somehow stuck fast instantly, allowing me to get back in the game. In fact, the same plaster lasted till the end of the next day and even survived the hottest bath I've ever had after the hike! Absolute marvel of engineering.

The other thing I discovered was that running actually made my feet stop hurting - I guess different muscle groups being used, different impact point when my feet hit the floor, etc - so towards the end, we all suddenly started speeding past people, to the bemused cheers of everyone else who were by then pretty much crawling on all fours

Shout out to Ryan for doing the whole thing in those crazy "barefoot" style shoes, and to my wife for having beer at the ready on the finish line for us!

Our time was about 9 hours, but annoyingly I think that includes pit stops. We were averaging about 18 min miles, so actual walking time was probably about 7 hrs 45 mins.

[Ryan]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We raised a good amount of money for charity and also had a good laugh, we spoke a fair bit about BTC as well.

[nick]

@Adam Great charity, now I've made my donation I expect you to get your nose to the grindstone and get the back testing up and running. LOL. I'm sure you will both smash it.

[Richard Latimer]

Excellent cause.

Pleased to donate what little I can afford.