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16:32, 29 AUG 2016 UPDATED 09:35, 9 SEP 2016
BY DANIELLE ROPER
Richard Bannaghan and Jazz Miralles hope to raise £2,000 for charity.
Richard Bannaghan, left, and Jazz Miralles, right, from Macclesfield, will take on a 12 mile wheelbarrow walk for charity.
Two bodybuilder dads will take on a mammoth 12 mile wheelbarrow walk challenge for charity.
Richard Bannaghan and Jazz Miralles, from Macclesfield, aim to push 330 pounds of sand, equivalent to 24 stone, uphill from Macclesfield to Buxton in a wheelbarrow.
The determined pair have set themselves a £2,000 target with funds raised to be shared equally between the Park Lane Special School, which caters for children and young people with learning difficulties, and three local youngsters.
Builder Richard, 49, who has been a bodybuilder for 35 years, said: “It gives us a buzz doing things like this, both physically and because we’re raising money for people who need it.
“Bodybuilding is a selfish sport and I think a lot of bodybuilders are looked down on so using our strength to do something for other people is really good.”
The dad-of-three added: “I absolutely love kids and think it’s so unfair when you see children and young people with problems. Everybody has goals in life and deserves a chance.”
Richard and Jazz, 45, a dad-of-four who runs Macclesfield’s Silktown Muscle Gym, have been training together for the event for the last seven Sundays and are determined to succeed.
He said: “It could take us up to 14 hours and it certainly won’t be easy but Jazz and I feed off each other and if one of us is struggling the other will take over and help out.
“We just won’t give up.”
Richard, who was best man at Jazz’s wedding, added: “One day I was training when Jazz couldn’t make it and I sat down for a break on top of this big wheelbarrow of sand. It was hammering down and there was me just in shorts. People thought I’d lost the plot!”
The madcap challenge is not the first Richard has taken on.
In 2012 he raised more than £1,000 for a girl with cancer by walking the 108 steps at Water’s Green in Macclesfield with a 220 pound weight solid steel blacksmith’s anvil.
The wheelbarrow for the event was donated by Cheshire Building Projects.
The walk will take place in October.
16:32, 29 AUG 2016 UPDATED 09:35, 9 SEP 2016
BY DANIELLE ROPER
Richard Bannaghan and Jazz Miralles hope to raise £2,000 for charity.
Richard Bannaghan, left, and Jazz Miralles, right, from Macclesfield, will take on a 12 mile wheelbarrow walk for charity.
Two bodybuilder dads will take on a mammoth 12 mile wheelbarrow walk challenge for charity.
Richard Bannaghan and Jazz Miralles, from Macclesfield, aim to push 330 pounds of sand, equivalent to 24 stone, uphill from Macclesfield to Buxton in a wheelbarrow.
The determined pair have set themselves a £2,000 target with funds raised to be shared equally between the Park Lane Special School, which caters for children and young people with learning difficulties, and three local youngsters.
Builder Richard, 49, who has been a bodybuilder for 35 years, said: “It gives us a buzz doing things like this, both physically and because we’re raising money for people who need it.
“Bodybuilding is a selfish sport and I think a lot of bodybuilders are looked down on so using our strength to do something for other people is really good.”
The dad-of-three added: “I absolutely love kids and think it’s so unfair when you see children and young people with problems. Everybody has goals in life and deserves a chance.”
Richard and Jazz, 45, a dad-of-four who runs Macclesfield’s Silktown Muscle Gym, have been training together for the event for the last seven Sundays and are determined to succeed.
He said: “It could take us up to 14 hours and it certainly won’t be easy but Jazz and I feed off each other and if one of us is struggling the other will take over and help out.
“We just won’t give up.”
Richard, who was best man at Jazz’s wedding, added: “One day I was training when Jazz couldn’t make it and I sat down for a break on top of this big wheelbarrow of sand. It was hammering down and there was me just in shorts. People thought I’d lost the plot!”
The madcap challenge is not the first Richard has taken on.
In 2012 he raised more than £1,000 for a girl with cancer by walking the 108 steps at Water’s Green in Macclesfield with a 220 pound weight solid steel blacksmith’s anvil.
The wheelbarrow for the event was donated by Cheshire Building Projects.
The walk will take place in October.
