Our goal was to break the world's longest continuous crawling record.
Although we didn't achieve this, our Big Crawl was a resounding success.
(To see the Documentary of the Big Crawl click Here)
The Big Crawl started soon after midnight on Saturday 7th July 2007 on Jesus Green in
As planned Dom only crawled the first lap because of his crawl-induced leg hole, which he acquired during the operation he had to drain a knee abscess.
The day dawned bringing glorious sunshine and crowds of enthusiastic onlookers.
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All went well until the evening dawned and Hamish started to become more and more unwell. 
Despite best efforts to carry on the big crawl had to stop just shy of the half way point after 20 hours of crawling.
The crawling position makes it very hard to absorb fluids and that, combined with the relentless sunshine, intense physical exertion and vomiting, resulted in severe dehydration which made it impossible for Hamish to continue.
Hamish was admitted to A&E at Addenbrookes Hospital where we discovered that to get very fast service in a busy A&E all you need do is look ghostly white, vomit uncontrollably, see in double, pass out and fall over when they put you on your feet.
He spent the night in hospital and doctors administered 6 litres of fluid to rehydrate him. His knees were badly blistered and every muscle in his body ached; even his eyes! For the medically orientated, on admission his CK was 4400, Urea 9.5 and he had a lactic acidosis.
The Big Crawl was made all the more special by the fantastic support we received. We were genuinely humbled by the selfless commitment of time and effort by so many of our wonderful families and friends. Without their boundless energy and resourceful assistance, the venture would have been impossible .
The response from everyone we encountered on the route was truly fantastic. We were overwhelmed by the generosity that people felt for our cause. We collected over £1500 on the day.
Although disappointed by our failure to break the record, we remain convinced that the big crawl was overall a resounding success as we had fun (well some more that others) and spread our message far and wide.
We continue in our determination to reach £15,000 by next summer when we swim the channel. Training begins as soon as the knees have healed!
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