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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">UPDATE: After a very windy weekend, we completed our challenge successfully, a grand total of 166.8 miles. Amazingly, we did not get lost once, and had zero arguments! </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Pictures will appear on Facebook shortly. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Thanks to everybody for their kind support, it is very much appreciated by the Barnard family and the Stroke Association, who were there to cheer us on at our final destination</span>. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #333399;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">As some of you may know, my Mum suffered a severe stroke in 2005. Since leaving hospital, she has received amazing support from friends, family and complete strangers she or Dad just seem to befriend in the street! </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">As well as all these great people, Mum has received fantastic support from The Stroke Association. I know that if Mum was fit enough, she would do all she could to repay their kindness, so when I decided I would set myself the challenge of biking from Snarestone to Suffolk, <strong>160 miles in 48 hours</strong>, it seemed logical to try and raise money for this worthy cause at the same time. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">Training for this trip started in 2009, but was sadly interrupted when I fell off my bike and fractured a bone just below the knee. 2 operations, and a year later, training has resumed - I am more determined than ever that I will complete this challenge! Initially Di was just a training partner, but has since decided she would also join me on the trip. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">The plan is to leave Snarestone at 3pm on Friday 29th April and reach Mum & Dad's village, Melton, near Ipswich, by 3pm on Sunday 1st May, with 2 overnight stays on the way. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">This page is set up to make sponsoring us as simple as possible, so if you would like to support our cause in anyway, no matter how small, please make your donation here.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">Any tips for saddle sores would be most appreciated!!!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">Thank you in anticipation of your kind support,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">Paul & Di</span></p>
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