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THE CALENDAR BOYS
Four friends take part in the Calendar Club Challenge in aid of Calpe House Trust.
BY JO WARD Following in the footsteps of ultra-marathon runner and entrepreneur Jesse Itzler, who took part in the Calendar Club Challenge earlier this year, Gibraltar’s own Calendar Boys, Andrew Yeats, Jamie Robba, Daniel Benitez and James Noguera are attempting a similar charity challenge in June. “The idea is to run the number of kilometres corresponding to the day of the month, so we will run 1km on the 1st June, 5km on the 5th and so on, leading up to 30km on the 30th June,” Andrew Yeats says. “Things are fairly easy to begin with, but get very tough towards the middle of the month and extremely tough by the last third of the month,” he explains. “This means that after day 21 of the month, we will be running more than 10 half marathons in a row 40
and a total of 465kms for the entire month.” The total number of kilometres that will be run by all four individual team members amounts to the equivalent of running from Gibraltar to Paris! “It is completely insane, as we have been told on numerous occasions, and this makes us want to take on the challenge even more,” Andrew says, going on to explain that the Calendar Boys have been training for two months. “We have been clocking up numerous kilometres which, even for experienced runners, has been hard on our bodies, especially on our feet and at the start blisters became a common occurrence.”
away from home for many people in the community, with the facility to house over 800 patients undergoing treatment for various conditions in London. “Personally, it holds a very dear place in my heart as it accommodated my uncle whilst he was receiving treatment for cancer for 5 months in 2019,” Andrew states. It also provided 5-star accommodation for my mum and dad whilst they were caring for him over the course of
The challenge is all in aid of a good cause and a charity close to the hearts of many Gibraltarians. The Calpe House Trust is a home GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JULY 2020
