Brad Brown

Well let me be totally honest with you here. I don’t have the balls to hang glide. I think it must have something to do with the fear of heights I have. When you’re as tall as I am you come built in with a fear of heights. You’re even scared of falling off yourself. But that is a whole different story.

You may or may not know about my fundraising efforts for charity but its time for me to spread the love that I’ve received pushing my cause over the last year and a bit. One of my biggest cheerleaders in the lead up to Comrades and Cycle Challenge has been Leanne Operman. We met on Twitter in the build up to Comrades 2010 and even though we haven’t met in ‘real’ life she has followed my journey from fat to fit. Anytime I needed some help getting word out on a fundraising drive I had put together for PinkDrive she was always the first one to retweet my message. She was along for the ride as I was twunning (tweeting while running) trying to qualify and was quick with words of encouragement when things weren’t looking good on race day at Comrades.

Its now my turn to see if I can help Leanne; You see, Lea has an extremely rare condition called Hereditory Inclusion Body Myopathy, a form of muscular dystrophy and even though its easy to give up when things don’t go your way, Leanne has decided as long as she is able to she is going to make a difference. Last year she decided she wanted to skydive (I suspect she may have been dropped on her head as a baby to). Not only did she jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane but she turned it into a huge fund raiser. She managed to put together an event called Krazee for Kripples with the theme of “going mile high for muscles”, got a few bands to perform and sold t-shirts and braai packs to raise funds for the Gauteng branch of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of South Africa. She managed to raise over Read more…

I’ve been putting my initiative for the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge together over the last couple of months. (Click here if you are a cyclist and you would like to get all the details of the Pink Drive Cycle Challenge Initiative) and it is rolling out quite successfully.

I do need your help though. You may or may not know that I lost my mom to breast cancer in May this year. Two weeks later I took on the Comrades Marathon in her memory as well as in support or in memory of a whole bunch of people affected by this dreadful disease as part of my 89 Memories 1 Race Initiative

I’m at it again but this time I will be riding the 94.7km for anyone suffering from cancer or who has lost the battle. Each kilometre will be for someone. If you would like to support this initiative all you need to do is sms the words ‘race 1′ and the message ‘in support of *insert your loved ones name here* or in memory of *insert your loved ones name here* to 42030. The sms will cost you R30 and in doing so I will ride one of the 94.7 kilometres for your loved one. Read more…

The Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge is approaching fast and I see more and more people out on the roads starting to get active. I hope your training is going well (if you’ve started) and if you haven’t, don’t stress too much about it, there is still time to build up nicely in order to have a great ride. My PinkDrive charity initiative is starting to pick up some momentum (excuse the pun) but we are nowhere near close to where we want it to be. So, if I can ask you a massive favour, please can you continue helping me getting the word out there that we, as a group, are trying to raise at least a million rand at this year’s cycle challenge. The money is going towards a great cause and if we can raise the million we will be able to buy another educational truck for the PinkDrive. If you can forward this link onto anyone and everyone you know who is riding the race, is thinking of riding the race or who has ever thought about riding it. In a nutshell it’s pretty easy to get involved. All you need to do is raise R3 000 for the PinkDrive. As a PinkDrive group we have an awesome start time, you’ll get cycling kit to show you’re part of the group and you’ll get to ride along side some South African celebs that have also committed to ride in support of breast cancer. All the details you need are here, Brad Brown’s Cycle Challenge Initiative and check out Race 4 Charity to see how easy it is to raise the required money for charity