Hospiscare patients sponsor FUGBY12 walker

Be first over the line and your sponsorship money doubles! That’s the challenge Mike Kocziban has accepted when entering Hospiscare’s The FUGBY12 men’s walk.

Mike popped into the city’s hospice to meet Hospiscare patients, Ted Gordon and Tim Webb, pictured, who are both sponsoring him. Ted and Tim both regularly attend day care therapy sessions.

“It was a privilege to meet Ted and Tim and to see the great work that Hospiscare do,” said Mike. “I was completely out of shape for the first walk and set myself a personal challenge to complete it.

"During the second year I broke my back and used the walk as my recovery target to get better and for the third year I set it as a challenge to be first over the line and succeeded. I’ll need to do that again now!” Mike’s training routine includes walking along the Exeter Quay and cycling.

A free pint and a pasty are being offered to walkers when they finish the 12k walk which is being sponsored by the Exeter CIty Football Club. The walk starts and finishes at the St James grounds on Sat March 21 where afterwards walkers can either watch a SIx Nations match or footie.

Details about walk available on www.fugby12.co.uk