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This Foundation was set up in memory of popular sports personality Charlie Beverland who passed away in May 2009 after a typically stubborn battle with Liver cancer.
We are planning on holding a number of sponsored events in aid of The Charlie Beverland Foundation.
Our first event was the Belfast Marathon on the 2nd May when 12 relay teams from the La Mon Hotel and Country Club will participate and over £2000 as collected.
Then Rugby Journalist, Jim Stokes, who is also an instructor at La Mon Country Club, collected £540 from an exhausting four-hour Spinathon. There are more marathons spin classes planned before the end of year.
Jim, along with six other cyclists undertook in July one of the most energy-sapping challenges in the world - completing an actual stage of the Tour de France.
The event is called l'Etape du Tour and is organised annually so that up to 10,000 manic souls and dreamers can do a stage of the one of the most enduring sports a few days before the actual event pants it way past.
The Etape was on 11 July and copied the 19th Stage mountain section from Modane to the summit of the iconic 13k climb up Alpe d'Huez with its 21 switchbacks long the way
Before that climb, however, there was the fearsome Col du Telegraphe and Col du Galibier which both have ascents in places of over 10%. There is then a nerve-jangling 46k drop to the foot of Alpe d'Heuz before the final hike.
Joining Jim was former Ireland flanker Denis McBride, fitness guru John McCloskey, Sports Institute physiotherapist Chris McNicholl, former marathon runner Ian O'Neill as well as Dr Michael Stokes and Richard Rea.
In sweltering 30 degrees heat and cyclists dropping like flies on the final climb, Jim and four others managed to beat the time limit to the top of Alpe d'Huez a tremendous achievement from pure amateur cyclists. Denis managed to do the stage in five hours 34 minutes with Jim coming home under two hours later.
All money raised will be going to the Liver & Bowel Wards in the Royal Victoria Hospital & the RVH Liver Support Group.
Thank you in anticipation of your kindness.
