Me in 60 seconds

Hi there. Many of you know me, many do not. 

For a long time now, my life has revolved around work. To almost everyone I’m that “hard working fat chap” that leads his team at Viegli.

But what you don’t know is that wasn’t the young me. The young me was fit, could run a mile in 4 and a bit minutes. I ran half marathons after playing 90 minutes of footie. I was skinny, fast, toned and I was fearless.

Then I worked and “played” hard. For reasons unknown I stopped caring about being fit and healthy.  I developed phobias, the biggest one being scared of heights!

In June of last year (2025) I decided enough was enough. Armed with Mounjaro and no plan, I set off on a journey to bring that fit, fearless me out of retirement.

Being 23 and a half stone makes exercise difficult. Having a back that feels like it’s made of Weetabix makes it even harder, so the first instalment of the plan was to just lose a lot of weight. 

In September 2025 I started to think about how I could motivate myself to start exercising again.  How do I make sure that now I’m down to a weight where the exercise can begin in earnest, how do I make sure I do it?

In late November / Early December 2025 I was below 17 stone for the first time in over 20 years. I was light enough to start training again and well on my way to the target weight of 14.5 stone, or a loss of just over 9 stones in total.

It dawned on me that I needed to set myself some targets. I needed to go big, or go home. I needed to set my sights on something that almost everyone who knows me, doesn’t think I can do. Let’s run a six minute mile.

Furthermore, it dawned on me that it would take months for me to get into that kind of shape. I’ll be 54 years old in 2026 for goodness sake. So I needed to motivate myself along the way. Welcome Katie for Focus Foundation!

Katie loved the idea of doing some wacky stuff, taking me out of my comfort zone and raising funds along the way. The two challenges before the 6 minute mile both do that for sure.

I’m calling on business leaders to join me in the summer of 2026 to abseil off the Brighton i360. That’s an insane challenge and one that should keep me motivated and raise funds for sure.

So in summary. I was a very fat, very unfit guy. Right now I’m a less fat but still unfit guy. Next year I plan to be neither and I want to raise as much as possible for two wonderful charities along the way.

Please sponsor me. Keep me on this journey. Thank you.