Lloyd Kembrey is entering a marathon 50km skate despite having barely any ice-skating practice.
A man is preparing to enter an ice-skating marathon in Finland in memory of his twin cousins - despite having almost no skating practice.
Lloyd Kembrey's relatives, Francesca and Josephine, were born with the life-limiting condition, Sanfilippo disease Type A."I haven't learned right turns yet, so I'll just keep going left," he joked. Mr Kembrey, 26, from Bristol, will be skating 50km around a frozen lake in the city of Kuopio in temperatures as low as -16C.The marathon skate is among 12 challenges he wants to compete in 12 months.
"We'll also be climbing Mount Everest on a climbing wall, running the London and Edinburgh marathons, racing a horse in the Welsh mountains for 20 miles, rowing to France, and doing a 24-hour bike ride around Europe," he said. The girls died as teenagers in 2006 and 2009. They were born with the rare brain disease which has recently been the
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