<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>Firstly, thanks very much for taking the time to visit our page!&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span>.</p> <p>This coming summer&nbsp;<strong>Matt Black</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Billy Fitton</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Felix Sowerbutts&nbsp;</strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Theo Wyld</strong>&nbsp;are taking on&nbsp;<strong>America!</strong>&nbsp;We are&nbsp;<strong>cycling</strong>&nbsp;the entire length of the&nbsp;<strong>east coast</strong>. A total of approximately<strong>&nbsp;2,000 miles</strong>&nbsp;and wiggling our way through&nbsp;<strong>13</strong>&nbsp;different states.</p> <p>.&nbsp;</p> <p>We touch down in our start point,<strong>&nbsp;Miami</strong>, on the 10th of August and we hope to reach the finish line in&nbsp;<strong>Portland, Maine</strong>&nbsp;on the 12th of September. We will be carrying essentials such as tents, sleeping bags, Sudocrem etc. whilst trying to average&nbsp;<strong>90 miles a day</strong>&nbsp;in the brutal summer sun.</p> <p>.</p> <p>We have chosen to do this ride in aid of&nbsp;<strong>Chernobyl Children In Need (CCIN).&nbsp;</strong>Although it has been 25 years since the Chernobyl disaster, it continues to affect the lives of many. Belarus was the region hit worst with&nbsp;<strong>70%</strong>&nbsp;of the radioactive fallout landing on its territory. It is estimated to take&nbsp;<strong>400 years</strong>&nbsp;for the radiation to leave the ground. The exposure to the radiation and the ingestion of radioactive food means that many children are&nbsp;<strong>born deformed</strong>&nbsp;and that&nbsp;<strong>cancers</strong>&nbsp;are extremely common.</p> <p>.</p> <p>This charity is run by volunteers who bring groups of children to England from Belarus for a month of respite. The charity pays over &pound;300 pounds per child to fund the travel costs and to help the host families provide for the children.</p> <p>.</p> <p>For those lucky enough to come over, just&nbsp;<strong>one month</strong>&nbsp;of eating nourishing food, resting from the relentless radiation and breathing clean air can&nbsp;<strong>add 2 years to their life expectancy!&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>.</strong></p> <p>If you would like any further information, (or even better if you were interested in being a host family), please visit their website:</p> <p>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ccin.co.uk/">http://www.ccin.co.uk/</a></p> <p>.</p> <p><strong>We would also like to thank everyone who has donated for our previous trips, we are so grateful.</strong>&nbsp;All your generous donations meant Theo, Matt, Billy and Harry's trip through Spain and Portugal raised&nbsp;<strong>&pound;17,000</strong>&nbsp;for DebRA!</p> <p>.</p> <p>You can track our progress on our blog: www.logmytrip.co.uk&nbsp;</p> <p>.</p> <p><strong>So please help us try and top that for an extremely worthwhile cause!</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>