Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

This time...I may have bitten off rather more than I can chew!!!

On Saturday 9th July (yep, only a few days away now) I am going to get on my BIKE (rather than in my boat which is where you would normally find me) and start cycling towards John O'Groats. Hopefully, I will get there on Monday 19th July - just 10 days, 935 miles and 35,806ft of ascent.

I've trained as hard as I could realistically fit in (to the extent that most of my friends and family have barely seen me since Christmas) but not as much as I would ideally liked to have done. Easter was a week of gruesome hills in North Wales, and I've ridden every weekend since then - dodging ponies in the New Forest, climbing the Oxfordshire Alps, the C2C mid June and a particularly evil 81mile sportive in November (it was really June but the weather was November). Last weekend I did a solo ride to Bristol  - 85miles in the sunshine.

What these rides have taught me is that a little sponsorship from you may just be the helping hand that I need to get to the end.  TEN DAYS IN A ROW!

I'm not a hugely experienced, long in the tooth, hardened cyclist. I am well out of my comfort zone (indeed, there's another matter!) and finishing each day will be an achievement...let alone getting back in the saddle the next morning.

I would like to raise a little money for the team and in memory of absent friends...one in particular who always delighted in this type of endurance challenge - the logistics, the planning, the training and of course, enjoying every minute of the challenge itself.

If you could manage a little 'financial incentive' for me to think about each day, when I've still another 20 miles to go or when the weather is miserable and I would rather lie in bed than get out there in the rain, then I would be very grateful.

50% of the money will go to the RNLI and 50% to the team charity (Dynavox - a clever machine to help paraplegic people communicate just by moving their eye).

Wish me luck...and a following wind ;)

 

 

So please dig deep and donate now.