{"id":3714,"date":"2017-11-10T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2021-07-20T04:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:44:06","slug":"runner-feature-cesar-mendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/runner-feature-cesar-mendez\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Feature – Cesar Mendez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"RunnerCesar Mendez<\/strong> recently joined us for the final Wimbledon Common Half Marathon of 2017, and to say he stood out would be an understatement. He came dressed as a tap! We asked him why and he went on to explain he was with us to help raise vital funds for Water Aid<\/strong> and here is his story. <\/em><\/p>\n

My dad suffered from cancer so when I moved in London and I just wanted to do something to give back to the community.<\/p>\n

After the move I set myself a challenge and up to this day I have run 10 marathons in ten different cities<\/strong> around the world including: Stockholm, Oslo, Venice, Miami, London, New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago and Honolulu all to raise funds for various charities. So far I’ve raise more than £10,000<\/strong>!<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m also a community champion as HSBC<\/strong> so I do a lot to raise awareness and funds for Water Aid<\/strong>, which last year Involved me running a half marathon<\/strong><\/a> wearing a toilet costume (can you see the theme coming). And in 2017 I signed up for 3 challenges specifically for Water Aid: The 26 Miles rowing boat race<\/strong> in the Thames, The RunThrough<\/strong> Wimbledon Common Half Marathon<\/strong> and Marathon 11<\/strong> in Bagan, Myanmar this November. So far for these three events I’ve raised a total of £2,000<\/strong>!<\/em><\/p>\n

I have become incredibly aware and astounded that 663 million<\/strong> people don’t have access to safe water or sanitation and only 1 in 3 people<\/strong> in the world have access to a toilet. So my mission is to raise awareness and to support the Water Aid campaign to ensure these is enough water and toilets for everyone everywhere<\/em> by 2030<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Runner<\/p>\n

(As quoted on the Water Aid<\/a><\/span> website, 2017)\n

I believe that Our time is short so the more we do the better!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cesar is currently in Rwanda volunteering at an orphanage – yes we are sure you will agree he is amazing and we hope that he continues to fundraise and help wherever and whenever he can. Also if you see a runner dressed up as a toilet, tap, shower, bath, sink… (we could go one) head over and say hi! <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cesar Mendez recently joined us for the final Wimbledon Common Half Marathon of 2017, and to say he stood out would be an understatement. He came dressed as a tap! We asked him why and he went on to explain he was with us to help raise vital funds for Water Aid and here is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}