Four 'Men', 500 Miles, Three Days, Three Countries........on bicycles!

HSBC's Milton Keynes Commercial Team have entered a team for this year's Extra Mile Challenge. This is a gruelling cycle relay event, which covers over 500 miles in three days, each of us doing approximately 130 miles, through some quite interesting terrain (meaning hills), across three countries.

We start in Belgium on 24th September, moving through France, and ending up in Germany on 26th. This challenge (to reinforce the point) is a considerable one, we're sure you'll agree, and it is designed to raise funds for charity. One third of all funds raised go to locally-based charities (Milton Keynes and Bedford), with the rest going to our chosen charity, which (this year) is The British Heart Foundation.

Details of the event, and route can be found at the following site: http://www.extra-mile.org.uk, and http://www.extra-mile.org.uk/NewsItem.aspx?ID=39 (the latter certainly should be enough to make some eyes water, or raise a snigger if you're cruel).

Please give this some thought, and try to appreciate the underlying motive. If you can spare anything by way of sponsorship, we'd all be very grateful, and it would help us to feel a little better about those hills...