UPDATE (5/9/08)

I am delighted to report that I have successfully completed the ride.

My thanks to all my sponsors, who have donated well in excess of my initial target, and to my fellow riders and all the staff at Classic Tours and Marie Curie for helping to make this a very special experience for me.

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Thanks for visiting my fundraising page.

This August, I am honoured to be 'Biking the Baltic' from Warsaw to Vilnius in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

I am doing this partly because I love cycling and discovering new places but also in memory of my grandmother Juliet Wallace (nee Triggs) who passed away from cancer forty years ago this summer at the age of 57. Cancer robbed my brother and I of a very special person whom we were too young to know.

About myself: I am British, originally from Buckinghamshire, and have been living and working in Tokyo for the last five years, where I teach English at a women's university. I enjoy reading, swimming, the theatre, as well as cycling. This March, I cycled 125 km up the Mekong River in Cambodia in aid of the educational and environmental charity Pepy Ride (www.pepyride.org); the picture is from a previous visit, just to show you what I look like! Hopefully, Poland and Lithuania will be a little cooler and less humid; all I can say is that I'm well into my training.

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