On May 9th, Chris Goodall will swim 1.2-miles, cycle 56-miles and then run a half-marathon. He's aiming to complete all three in 5 hours 15 minutes - and that's just a "warm-up" to his main challenge!

We've said it before that people constantly amaze us with the scale of the challenges they undertake in aid of Smile4Wessex, but Chris Goodall's is certainly up there with the very biggest. Let's be honest, most wouldn't attempt his 'warm-up' never mind a Full Ironman, but that's exactly what Chris will be doing just 7 weeks later.

Ironman France takes place in Nice on 28th June, and Chris will join around 3,000 others tackling the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile cycle ride and FULL marathon distances. His target is to complete this epic challenge in 12 hours 30 minutes but, frankly, just to finish would be a massive achievment (as around 25% don't).

Even Chris' training regime will sound unimagineable to most of us....

"I've trained 12-15hrs per week through the winter, given up the booze (mostly), been a pain in the **** when I’m “hangry” (hungry / angry) at home, saturated treadmills with my bodily fluids in the local gym, rode my bike in a big 4 hour circle in the name of “training”, spent a fortune on sports kit, been taped up like a wrongun with muscle recovery tape by Sarah the violent sports physio – but made some amazing new friends who appear to be just as mad as me along the way."

Chris is hoping to raise a similarly impressive amount of money for his three chosen charities, Smile4Wessex, Countess Mountbatten Hospice and the Royal Marines Charitable Trust. He's chosen Smile4Wessex after hearing of Jack Joslin whom Chris describes as "an extremely brave young boy recovering from recent brain tumour surgery". If you'd like to help him reach his £4,000 target then please visit his fundraising page by clicking HERE as Chris will be relying heavily on the motivation of your support over those last 26.2 miles!

Thanks Chris, and all the very best for your challenge.