On the 29 July my friend Mark and I will attempt a childhood ambition, to cycle from the most northern point of Britain, John O’Groats, to the most southern, Lands End. The chosen route is just shy of 1000 miles.

As you may be aware in May 2011 I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. I was fortunate that the cancer had only spread to the lymph nodes in my abdomen and as a result I only required the removal of one testicle, a single round of carboplatin chemotherapy and 15 doses of radiotherapy.

It’s the dedication of people working in cancer research that has transformed the success of testicular cancer treatment. Mark and I will cycle for Cancer Research UK, our chosen charity.

Thank you to those of you who have asked after and prayed over my health, I am exceptionally grateful. The treatment was declared successful at the end of last summer, and I am now a year into a 10 year period of long term follow up which includes yearly CT scans (my next one being on 23 July 12), 6 monthly chest X-Rays (the type of cancer I had typically travels along the lymphatic pathway from testicle – abdomen - lungs – brain) together with three monthly blood tests.

For those that would like to follow our progress, please see

 

www.chateaumcguire.com

for daily updates as we follow the route.