The trip was fantastic although I forgot there are TWO mountain ranges between the Irish Sea and the North Sea and neither Cumbria nor Northumberland are particularly flat between mountains! Help make my aching quads worthwhile!
Sometimes a charity not only touches your heart but captures your imagination. Sportability did that for me.
Sportability raises money to provide sport and challenging pursuits for people around the UK with paralysis. It is not about creating elite sportsmen and women. It is about people trying something new and different. It is about the adrenaline rush, putting the buzz back into a life corralled by the wheelchair, taking the 'dis' out of disability and focusing on ability.
People with conditions such as spinal cord injury, stroke and MS are able to participate in a whole range of sports - scuba diving, sailing, archery, angling, abseiling, quad-biking, gliding, canoeing, clay pigeon shooting, go-karting, land-yachting, wheelchair tennis and many more activities they may have thought they'd never again be able to do.
For that reason, I am cycling across England, 142 miles in four days, from Whitehaven to Tynemouth, across the Pennines. Sportability is still a small charity and every penny counts. If you sponsor me, more people will be inspired by the thought, 'If I can do this, what else can I achieve?'
Thanks for making that possible.
