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Target: £3,000.00
Raised so far: £3,045.70
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Well here goes with starting the page ... first off thanks to the guys on HMS Trafalgar for starting the ball rolling with the £360 raised at the decomissioning ball.

Also a big thanks to the guys at the Bike Shed (Exeter) for sorting the bike out and for discounting the gear ... the difference has gone to the charity .

I'm enjoying the training, it makes a big difference doing it on a moving bike above the sea I can tell you, and I am a lot thinner ...Helen says it suits me ... which I guess is a wife's way of saying you were fat before !

Should realy let you know what I am doing it for and where the money will be going. The Charities being supported are Sport Relief and the Dallaglio Foundation, which supports the following charities : Help for Heroes, Cancer Research, Leukemia Research, RPA Benevolent Fund (helps rugby players if they are forced to retire from the game through serious injury and their families in the event of their untimely death) and also DebRA supporting people with Epidermolysis Bullosa. These are all obviously really worthwhile charities and a few have very personal significance. I am both glad and a bit overwhelmed to be involved.

 

So to the event - it is a bike ride from Paris to Twickenham ... at least that is the part I am doing, the big man himself is going from Rome to Edinburgh via Paris, Twickenham, Dublin and Cardiff.

 

The website for the event is www.dallagliocycleslam.co.uk

 

Things of note so far with the training 

1.   ... falling off and bouncing off my head - suprisingly painless and considering there was no one around I did not even cry - lesson from that one - use the front break or the bike slews from under you!

2.   ... broken chain - managed to repair it on the side of the road and got home in one piece - lesson from that one - look at the chain before you take it off so you have at least half a chance of remembering how it went back on... it did explain the noise coming from the chain for the rest of the ride ...

3. ...blow out in the middle of the countryside - lesson - check the spare tyre does not have a split in it and when you phone your wife expecting her to pick you up at least have an idea where you are... Big hand to the little old lady who stopped and offered to help although I was never going to get the bike in the back of her micra !

No doubt there will be more... I'll keep you posted!

 

Couple more lesson learned ...

4. ... hills  - Devon is full of hills left to right or right to left it does not matter it is all hills and when the Town Planners of Seaton decided to call it "Long Hill" they were not being ironic !

5. ... manure - When you cycle through some manure do not then have a drink from your water bottle - you get a extra nutrients ! 

Donation by Anonymous on 20/02/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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Good Luck Rich...remember to wear the padded shorts!! Best wishes from Moira & Peter Donation by Moira & Peter on 20/02/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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While dropping the bike off - decent guy on the train gave some money Donation by Decent bloke on the train on 19/02/10

 
£10.00
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Best of luck Rich and I hope all goes well! Donation by Louise Morris on 19/02/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Good luck, not that you need it. Remember "food is fuel"! Donation by Si, Caroline and Ollie on 18/02/10

 
£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
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Richie, this is from my dad who rekons he can do it quicker than you! Donation by Simon Welch on 18/02/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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hoofing effort mate - hope you enjoy it and do a cavendish on his a** in the last mile Donation by leigh on 18/02/10

 
£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
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From Helen's Mum and Dad Donation by Richie Cragg on 17/02/10

 
£20.00

Donation by Nigel Winstone on 17/02/10

 
£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
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Don't forget your stabilisers big boy. Best of luck Keith & Holly Donation by Keith Jones on 16/02/10

 
£75.00 + £21.15 Gift Aid
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Go Richie Go. I don't think they have hills in France so you'll def be OK and no manure either so you'll even be able to drink the water! Good luck! Donation by Anna Jordan on 16/02/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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Donation by Jon Cragg on 15/02/10

 
£50.00
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Donation by Bill CRAGG on 15/02/10

 
£50.00
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money from discount given for the gear I bought Donation by Bike Shed Exeter on 15/02/10

 
£95.00
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Good luck Rich, I want to hear how you left LD struggling to stay with you on the hills! Donation by Simon Brown on 14/02/10

 
£50.00
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Money raised at the HMS Trafalgar ME Dept Dinner Donation by HMS Trafalgar ME Dept on 05/02/10

 
£280.00
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I'm impressed. Finish it, and I'll double my donation. Donation by Gideon York on 04/02/10

 
£41.70 + £11.76 Gift Aid
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Hope all goes well with the training and let us know how the event goes. Donation by Tim Bishop on 03/02/10

 
£50.00
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Hope it all goes to plan. Donation by Keith Taylor on 01/02/10

 
£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
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good luck big boy - give it some! Donation by Andrew Baxter on 27/01/10

 
£400.00

Donation by Richie Cragg on 06/01/10

 
£360.00
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