Ange and Jax are two slightly more "mature" ladies, each with 3 adopted retired greyhounds, fundraising for The Retired Greyhound Trust Sittingbourne.

 

For 2014's challenge they will cycle from Marble Arch, London to Dover (approx. 80 miles) then, with friends, swim the channel equivalent distance in Dover pool and then after a quick ferry crossing, cycle the approximately 160 miles from Calais to Paris.....all in 1 weekend.

 

In 2012 they completed an ironman triathlon (2.4 mile / 3.8km swim + 112 mile / 180km bike + 26.2 mile / 42.2km run in 17 hours maximum) raising £1,007 to help with the re-homing of these fabulous dogs when their racing careers end.

 

Greyhounds are lazy, gentle, couch potatoes who happily spend 23 hours a day asleep and need only 2 short walks a day and lots of TLC to keep them happy. They are generally clean dogs who shed very little hair. Many of them can live happily with children and other dogs.

The Sittingbourne Retired Greyhound Trust was set up to re-home some of the greyhounds retired from racing at the Sittingbourne stadium. Approximately 9,000 greyhounds, typically aged between 4 and 6 years, retire nationwide per year and many of them find their way to the RGT re-homing centres where they are looking for a loving ‘’forever’’ home for the 2nd half of their lives. You can see some of them athttp://www.rgtsittingbourne.co.uk/