By Leicester Mercury | Posted October 22, 2012
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to train with Leicester City or Leicester Tigers?
Leicester Mercury managing director David Simms and editor Richard Bettsworth are in the process of visiting the clubs' training grounds to find out.
It is part of the Grant Thornton Executive Quest, which invites business leaders in Leicestershire and Rutland to undertake a unique charity challenge in aid of LOROS hospice and prostate cancer charity PROSTaid.
The aim of this challenge is to put David and Richard through training sessions that the players would have to do and gain an insight into the demands on professional sportsmen. Both will be writing about their experiences and coaches from both clubs will write reports on how they got on.
David has already spent a day training with Leicester City and Richard will be put through a session at Leicester Tigers' Oval Park ground on Wednesday. You can read about how they got on in the Mercury on Friday and Saturday. Richard said: "We are grateful to the clubs for arranging these training sessions and making us feel so welcome. We are very pleased to be taking part in the Grant Thornton Executive Quest, which is a superb way of raising funds for these vital charities."
Anybody who wants to make a donation to this Executive Quest challenge can do so on the following Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/ Richard-Bettsworth
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