Enduro Challenge 2009
Fundraising Target: £5000
My Donations to date: £5385
Fundraiser(s): Hugo Elliott Huw Jones Victoria Hampson Arne Jacobs Simon Fawcett Alex Wilson
Event: Enduro Challenge 2009
Event Date: 28th August 2009
Charitie(s) Supported: Deutsche Bank Charity of The Year,

Enduro Challenge 2009
The challenge is a race between the teams for the fastest total time from Tower Bridge, London to Eiffel Tower, Paris
6 Deutsche Bank staff members will take on teams from Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Tudor Capital, UBS and Societe Generale for the winner takes all title and also an attempt on the world record!
We start on Friday 28th Aug to run the team relay of 85 miles or so from London to Dover (around 9 hours). We then have an early start (4am) on Saturday to catch the right tides for the 25-30 mile swim relay from Dover to Calais (10-15 hours, which has to be done without wetsuits, just speedos and vaseline!), and then once ashore head straight out for the 180 mile cycle relay from Calais to Paris (around 9 hours) cycling through Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday morning. Complete lunacy for three good causes (i.e. the DB charities below)!
Our team (and our DB department):
Huw Jones (captain) - GBS
Alex Wilson - GM Credit Solutions
Vicki Hampson - GM FX Sales
Arne Jacobs - GM Distressed Products
Hugo Elliott - GB Real Estate
Simon Fawcett - GM Risk & Capital Management
Please give generously - we need to raise £20k to participate (this high entry bar has not been reduced post credit-crunch!), some of which we are hoping to get from corporate sponsors. That said ALL DB EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS SITE WILL BE MATCHED so your buck is worth twice anyone else's!
For DB staff, we have an internal web-page that can be accessed from this intranet link: http://dbnetwork.eps.cib.intranet.db.com/db/en/en_gb/dbNetwork/Regions/Europe/uk/enduro_challenge_triathlon.html
We are supporting three charities this year:
The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust www.almt.org
The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust was established by Nick and Kara Lawson in 2006 following the tragic loss of their son Angus. He would have been 2 years old a month later. The ALMT is a children's charitable trust the purpose of which is to make funds available to support directly children from an educational or health care perspective. The trust has supported worldwide, but is now focusing mainly on inner-city kids in London, deaf blind kids in Romania and a school and orphanage in India
CHICKS www.chicks.org.uk
CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids) provides respite breaks to the UK's disadvantaged children struggling with the impact of poverty abuse and neglect. Many are dealing with the devastating effects of physical, emotional or sexual abuse. In addition, they offer respite breaks to young carers who look after parents with physical disabilities, mental health or drug and alcohol problems. CHICKS enables children to be children again, to build self-confidence and experience positive adult role models through traditional ‘family' activities such as swimming, horse riding, painting pictures or just playing in the open air at their two centres in south west England.
Teenage Cancer Trust www.teenagecancertrust.org
Six teenagers across the UK were told this morning that they have cancer - another six will be told the same thing tomorrow. Cancer is now the No. 1 cause of death in teenagers and young adults. Incidence rates are now higher in this age range than in children, yet survival rates remain far lower. TCT builds and runs specialist units in NHS hospitals where teenagers can be treated in facilities specific to their needs. However, 7 out of 10 teenagers still can't get access to TCT units. To put that right, TCT need to build another further fourteen units urgently. Please help them make this happen!
Contributions
| Display Name | Date | Amount | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liam Spillane | 30th July 2009 | £50.00 | mad, mad, mad!! but the very best of luck to you |
| Owen | 31st July 2009 | £100.00 | Good luck Vicks...hope Hansen's not there to slow you down! |
| Chris Smith | 04th August 2009 | £100.00 | As if an iron man (woman) wasnt tough enough |
| Elaine Choo | 04th August 2009 | £100.00 | Wow - we are impressed at your determination ! Good luck !! |
| Anonymous | 05th August 2009 | £10.00 | go go go DB |
| Anonymous | 05th August 2009 | £100.00 | I can only image Simon's looking forward to slathering himself in goose fat.... |
| Trevor Dinmore | 05th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| neville bulgin | 06th August 2009 | £50.00 | enjoy the warm swim |
| Jock Barnes | 10th August 2009 | £30.00 | Dont be such a girl Vicki! |
| Jack Crawford | 10th August 2009 | £50.00 | Best of luck, you crazy people!! |
| T.J. Durnan | 10th August 2009 | £100.00 | best of luck! |
| Chris Read | 10th August 2009 | £30.00 | Vix, at least you can't fall over when you're swimming!! Good luck to you all |
| Paul Carr | 10th August 2009 | £25.00 | Best of luck to you all |
| Dick Fitzwell | 11th August 2009 | £100.00 | plenty of goose fat and vaseline..............it works wonders..... |
| Paul Hyatt | 12th August 2009 | £25.00 | You need a new hobby!!!! |
| Anonymous | 12th August 2009 | £30.00 | |
| Abi | 12th August 2009 | £20.00 | Go VIck! You're amazing..show those boys how its done! |
| kathleen oldham | 12th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck Vicki, rather you than me!!!!!! |
| jason shell | 13th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| Clare Wigan | 14th August 2009 | £10.00 | Enjoy - think of the Caribbean sunshine when you're swimming Vicki! love C & C x |
| Anonymous | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | go vix, very proud |
| Daniel Pietrzak | 14th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| Mark Price | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | Best of luck ! |
| Adam Herrmann | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | Good Luck |
| toni mcdermott | 14th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| Lisa Paul | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | Good luck! - can't say I'm jealous |
| Henry J Ritchotte | 14th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| James Leeson | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | All the best..! |
| Troy Martin | 14th August 2009 | £100.00 | Good Luck! |
| Dad & Mum | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | Don't know where you get your mad streak from! |
| Paul Hillier | 14th August 2009 | £50.00 | Simon... I would have sponsored you just for the run!!! But I guess you couldn't turn down the opportunity to parade in rubber and lubricant again ;D |
| Neehal Shah | 14th August 2009 | £100.00 | Good luck Vicki |
| Alex Doran | 14th August 2009 | £10.00 | Good luck! |
| Stuart & Angela | 15th August 2009 | £100.00 | This looks seriously painful - and very worthy causes too. |
| Ian & Margaret Oliver | 16th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck !!!!!!!! |
| Maxime Seguineau | 16th August 2009 | £10.00 | |
| Paula Webb | 17th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck everyone! |
| Jane Chen | 17th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck, Huw! Make us proud! |
| Effie Datson | 17th August 2009 | £50.00 | Good luck, everyone! |
| Jamie Smith | 17th August 2009 | £10.00 | Good luck Vicki, good luck team !! |
| Kathryn Jones | 18th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck. |
| Brittany Li | 18th August 2009 | £20.00 | HUW JONES you are the best IRON BOSS ever!!! YOU can doo it!!! |
| Alun Jones | 18th August 2009 | £50.00 | Pob lwc! |
| Leslie Martin | 18th August 2009 | £10.00 | Good Luck Huw! |
| Jen | 18th August 2009 | £75.00 | Good luck vicki!! At least you know the water will be warmer than our desk in the office! |
| Sian Dalrymple | 18th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| brian sweetnam | 18th August 2009 | £100.00 | best of luck! |
| DANIEL SWASBROOK | 18th August 2009 | £100.00 | |
| Amy Parker | 18th August 2009 | £20.00 | DB to win!!!!!!! |
| Mike Jones | 18th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck - Huw , dont wear those white cycling shorts in the rain |
| Karl franks | 18th August 2009 | £25.00 | I take it Ian Mc was removed from the team for having too much gas! Good luck guys. |
| Chris Norman | 19th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good luck |
| Gail Foreman | 19th August 2009 | £10.00 | |
| Sarah Vivian | 19th August 2009 | £20.00 | |
| Sarah | 19th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good luck! |
| Ben Lawrence | 19th August 2009 | £50.00 | |
| Olivia Lette | 19th August 2009 | £50.00 | Good luck Hawk-eye! Think you're nuts but hats off none-the-less. xxx |
| graham harris | 19th August 2009 | £50.00 | good luck |
| Charlie & Petra Luckin | 19th August 2009 | £100.00 | Allons-y, Vick! Bring some glamour to the event. I reckon the spangly black trousers and the Manolos |
| David Gallagher | 19th August 2009 | £25.00 | Good luck. |
| Willy G & Dodster | 19th August 2009 | £25.00 | |
| Peter Tolhurst | 19th August 2009 | £100.00 | Is this to test out DB's new travel policy? |
| Robert Abbott | 19th August 2009 | £25.00 | |
| Sapna Jethwa | 20th August 2009 | £25.00 | I can't even comprehend those distances - very best of luck! |
| Anonymous | 20th August 2009 | £10.00 | |
| Gar and Carol | 20th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good luck Bones!! |
| Adam Johnson | 20th August 2009 | £25.00 | |
| Jim Freeman | 21st August 2009 | £50.00 | Best of luck |
| Andres Anker | 21st August 2009 | £100.00 | Good luck !! |
| Nelius De Groot | 21st August 2009 | £50.00 | Best of luck Simon and team, will be thinking of you. |
| Graham & Jane | 23rd August 2009 | £100.00 | Good luck Hammio!! |
| Anonymous | 24th August 2009 | £20.00 | all best. good cause, good picture! AND ENGLAND WON THE ASHES!!!! - Rob |
| Paul Noble | 24th August 2009 | £10.00 | Good Luck Huw |
| Laurent Develay | 24th August 2009 | £50.00 | Good Luck Victoria |
| Jean and Ron | 24th August 2009 | £25.00 | What a fantastic effort! Best of luck, Vicki. |
| Richard Fretwell | 25th August 2009 | £50.00 | |
| Matthew Price | 25th August 2009 | £50.00 | Best of luck |
| Esperanza Cerdan | 25th August 2009 | £50.00 | |
| MR A MACLEOD | 25th August 2009 | £20.00 | Best of luck to all of you, espesh Miss Hampson...enjoy that swim!! Andy MacLeod. |
| Jamie Meyer | 25th August 2009 | £50.00 | Huw, Alex and the team, wish you all the best, don't get lost and don't touch the boat ! I wish I was joining you. |
| Juergen Settele | 25th August 2009 | £20.00 | Good Luck!! :-) |
| Shane Conner | 25th August 2009 | £20.00 | |
| Danny Roukin | 26th August 2009 | £20.00 | Si - shame you will have to ditch the neo-prene. It is soon to be speedo time. All yours. Enjoy and Good Luck |
| Anonymous | 26th August 2009 | £50.00 | Very best of luck |
| EJR | 26th August 2009 | £30.00 | Good luck Hugo!! |
| Anonymous | 26th August 2009 | £50.00 | |
| Joan & Peter Maybury | 26th August 2009 | £10.00 | The very best of luck Vicki |
| Susan Lakin | 26th August 2009 | £25.00 | Good luck to you all, specially Vicki! |
| Emma Simmons | 26th August 2009 | £100.00 | All the very best - I am most impressed |
| Anonymous | 27th August 2009 | £30.00 | Good luck to Simon and the whole team - rather you than me! |
| Anonymous | 27th August 2009 | £20.00 | |
| Jochen Eppler | 27th August 2009 | £20.00 | Crazy Guy! |
| Anonymous | 27th August 2009 | £50.00 | |
| Ian & Sue Bamford | 27th August 2009 | £10.00 | |
| Mark Hampson | 27th August 2009 | £30.00 | Good luck stinky!! Just as well one of us siblings has some common sense!! |
| PADRAIG MOORE | 27th August 2009 | £20.00 | GO FOR IT ARNE!!! |
| andrew priston | 27th August 2009 | £200.00 | good luck vicky |
| Panayiotis | 28th August 2009 | £20.00 | Nice shorts Huw...will throw in another 100 pesos if you promise not to wear those today. Good Luck! |
| Richard Jones | 28th August 2009 | £10.00 | All the best. |
| Pietro Stella | 28th August 2009 | £100.00 | best of luck |
| Eric Larsson | 28th August 2009 | £20.00 | Go Arne, go Arne! |
| Anonymous | 28th August 2009 | £20.00 | Arne vor, noch ein Tor! |
| Grzegorz Blicharz | 28th August 2009 | £50.00 | Good Luck! |
| Michael Sutton | 28th August 2009 | £40.00 | |
| Rodney Toop | 28th August 2009 | £20.00 | |
| Ross Miller | 01st September 2009 | £40.00 | Good luck |
| Jen & Ben | 02nd September 2009 | £25.00 | I can't believe you're mad enough to do it twice! Good effort! |
| David Stevens | 02nd September 2009 | £100.00 | Awesome effort team! |
| Pretty Sagoo | 02nd September 2009 | £20.00 | Better late than never....well done all |
| Anthony Zarr | 03rd September 2009 | £40.00 | Hopefully your race time was more timely! Well done guys |
| james relph | 07th September 2009 | £10.00 | great effort, shame about the weather |
| PRM (ROB) FARRELL | 07th September 2009 | £20.00 | I think I am a bit late for this... |
| Michael Hennell | 10th September 2009 | £30.00 | Top stuff Huw as always, well done MrH |
| Helen Jones | 15th September 2009 | £10.00 | Well done! |
| Daniel Smith | 24th September 2009 | £125.00 | Well Done Hampo |