Jo's going to run 12km for charity

The No. 8 Wire Mongol Rally team are three friends from Invercargill, New Zealand. We're planning to take on one of the most epic adventures in 2016: driving a car the size of a tin can across two continents, much of which don't really have what we think of as roads.

As well as being a story for the ages, we're doing this to raise money for charity: for Cool Earth, the SPCA and the Red Cross.

This journey is likely to be a physically arduous task, so in preparation for the likely event of having to push our car over a mountain range, we decided to include taking part in the Surf to City as one of our charity fundraisers. None of us are currently in peak physical condition, so your moral support and financial contributions will be a great incentive to get us across the line.