 Poster: A snowHead
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Dear Snowheads,
Last year many of you very generously supported my entry as a fun-running wheelchair fundraiser in the Great North Run. This year I am doing it again and have managed to convince many of my colleagues in the British Adaptive Ski Team to join in......so on 1st October we have four wheelchair users and an amputee racer doing it for us (including two paralympians!).
Skiers on The British Adaptive Ski Team and Development Squad (BAST) have a wide range of disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, visual impairments, spina bifida and muscular dystrophy. Some are amputees. BAST skiers are largely self-funding and this event will be their major fundraiser this year. One of its skiers, Sean Rose, was just half a second away from Silver at this years Winter Paralympic Games - and we'd like to build on such results. We hope that by bringing our skiing to an international stage we can inspire more disabled people to try a new sport. Skiing changes lives!!
Please take the time to visit our fundraising site for this event http://www.justgiving.com/skiracers and help us get towards our target of £10,000. Donations on this site are completely secure and very easy to make.
Also, feel free to copy this posting and pass it to your friends, relatives and colleagues - all monies raised will go towards providing training for our racers, buying important team equipment, encouraging entry onto the squad of new racers and raisng the profile of disabled skiing in general!
Take a look at a slide show featuring our racers here: http://adaptive.podbus.com/gnr.mp4
Thanks for reading this and please give generously!!
Dave Chugg. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Choodalls, well done, hope it goes well, you are an inspiration.
There was recently a question about disable skiing here . Are you able to offer any help to the guy that raised the question?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Good to see you back again!
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Donations's on it's way Choodalls, can you offer any advice in this thread ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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FenlandSkier - thanks for the donation ......and thanks for pointing me to that thread. I hope I can make a useful contribution there.
Also, thanks all SnowHeads for the donations so far - we are now over £1000, so that is good news. Even better news is one of our skiers Tim Farr has raised about 5K already on another site.....so we are getting there.
Thanks a million.
Dave Chugg.
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Quick update:
We'll all be wearing white T-shirts with Disability Snowsport UK on them, you may hopefully spot our 3 wheelchair runners (myself, Russell Docker - double paralympian - and Tim Farr) who will be starting behind the "serious" wheelchair racers at 10.10a.m. Dependent on her injury status we have another wheelie doing it for us in Caroline Darke who, following a broken collarbone injury in training at Tignes last year is now doing some of our admin stuff pending a return to racing.
Forecast for Sunday is "heavy showers" - oh dear 
Dave.
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Choodalls, tell you what - I'll sponsor you if you donate to Back-Up Trust day we run in Les Arcs?
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