Three years after the accident, the family established Cofio Robin, external (Remember Robin), a charity offering funding to aspiring young sportsmen and women under the age of 25 to help them progress their careers.
Guto says the charity provided a chance to “not only build a legacy for him – that’s not the main ambition, it’s a by-product – but to drive real change, and doing so by connecting it to something he was so passionate about, which is sport”.
In the seven years since, they have raised and distributed more than £100,000 in funding to young people in Gwynedd and Conwy, and are set to carry on for years to come. The deadline for applications falls at the end of September each year.
So far, the charity and the bucket list have been separate enterprises, but this summer for the first time, the two aims were united, when Guto crossed another item off the list by completing an Ironman.
The choice of venue – Tallinn in Estonia – was dictated by its proximity in time to what would have been Robin’s 30th birthday on 20 August, three days before the event, which the family had previously had discussions about how to mark.
Guto’s parents, fiancée and best friend were all out in Tallinn to see him complete the gruelling 3.8km open water swim, 180km (112 mile) bike ride and a marathon in 12 hours 53 minutes.