James is very young. Indecently so, in fact. 
Tim is perhaps too enthusiastic. About this, but mainly about everything.
Sam is to blame for the very idea of taking part.
Chris is not at all young. But he has cycled more miles in his long long long life than the rest of us have even driven.

There was a brief window in 2017 that the four of us worked together in the ALDI eCommerce team, and during that time this plan was hatched. While the rest of us worked very hard to convince our long-suffering, supportive wives that this was a good way to spend a long weekend without them, James was busy forgetting to mention it at all to his girlfriend, who has since done more training for it than he has.

***EDIT August 20th - Chris' body has rebelled at being asked to actually touch the tarmac without carbon and rubber objects in between, and broken. We welcome new team member Tom Wormleighton. This is a calculated move to make the rest of us look bad, because Tom was actually the original concept for the Energizer adverts***

Some details about the event we'll be taking part in can be seen here http://ratrace.com/coasttocoast2018/# 

We have all been amazed at and proud of the fantastic fundraising efforts on behalf of ALDI's TCT support from our colleagues and team members within the departments we now work in (James is still in eCommerce, Tim is and always was NIT, Chris was supposedly NIT but forgot, and when we work out what Sam does we'll let you know), and felt that we wanted to throw our weight into that too. Puns about how considerable our combined weight that will need to be dragged over the Scottish Highlands are not required, thanks.

The work the TCT does is invaluable. Of course it is instrumental to the care, support and recovery of many teenagers struck with cancer; but the effect goes far beyond that too, improving the lives of those teenagers' families by giving them confidence in the support their loved ones are receiving, flying the flag for the kind of health care we would all love to receive in the same situation - suited to the people receiving treatment, not just suited to the treatment being given. 

In September we will run, ride and kayak 105 miles over two days through the Great Glen and Loch Ness in Scotland, from Nairn on the north coast close to Inverness, southwest to Ballachulish and Glencoe. Many miles will have been covered in training before then. Chris will have learnt to run, James will have found out what a bike looks like. All of it will have been with what the TCT does for young people in mind.

Please give whatever you can to help.