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Updated on Jun 18th 2012 at 12:32 PM from the JustGiving API
Made it! 500 miles and we got to Bordeaux on Saturday afternoon, ahead of schedule. Great company and riding with Team Lofi the highlight - triumph of willpower and organisation. Inspiring personal triumphs all around.
Updated on Jun 14th 2012 at 8:03 AM from the JustGiving API
In France! 207km/127mi done yesterday... 196km across Brittany ahead... Roule on Nantes...
<p><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">I'm riding a bicycle 500 miles from Bristol to Bordeaux to raise money for a very special charity called<strong> <a title="PROPS - Providing Opportunities and Support" href="http://www.propsforward.org/">PROPS</a>.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">PROPS </strong>do inspiring work with young people with special needs - giving them opportunities to learn, develop skills and work when their full time education finishes. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">During and after last year's ride I</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"> got to see first-hand just a little of what PROPS meant to some of the young people and their families. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">It was inspiring...</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"> Inspiring enough to make me volunteer to ride 500 miles. And enough to get me through the even-less-glamorous 2,000 miles of training through the winter and April's perma-rain. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">I'm doing this in the hope that I can persuade you to </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; color: #800000;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">please donate anything/as much as you can</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"> -</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"> it really is a superb cause. I'm paying all the costs of the trip, so your money all goes to PROPS, along with a chunk of Gift Aid.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; color: #000000;"> </span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Thank you</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">--James</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">PS Just Giving say: <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity. So please dig deep and donate now.</em></span></p>