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I’m constantly challenging my school children at their activities and telling them to persevere and be resilient! So I thought it was about time that I set myself a rather large challenge which could also help others.  I’m endeavouring to raise money for Alzheimers Research.   The sad fact is that most of us know a friend, neighbour or family member that has/had this awful diagnosis and we have watched that person slowly disappear.

So the challenge ...

On the 18^th August, I’m going to cycle the coast to coat across the Pennines, from Whitehaven to Tynemouth!  That’s 133 miles over 3 days.  We go across the Pennines – which means loads of hills… In fact we will cycle up a total of 9,297 feet, with the biggest
climb being 2,002 feet.  To put that into perspective our biggest climb is the equivalent of nearly 3 Leith Hills!

Now, I have never been a naturally fit or sporty person so I’m not sure what I’ve got myself into.  Since Easter, I’ve been cycling to school twice a week and going out at the
weekend.  My husband who will be doing the challenge with me, has made me cycle up Box Hill numerous times and Leith Hill a couple of times.  We are always
asking a lot of our children and I now know how they feel - after cycling up
Box Hill at record speed (for me anyway) and feeling rather proud of myself, my
husband told me in a gruff voice to “speed up!” as “you’re going really slowly!”.
 He called it a ‘motivational pep-talk’… I told him that if he wished to stay friends with me, that he should keep his so-called ‘pep-talks’ to himself! 

The good news is that on Sunday I did my longest cycle ride yet - 41 miles over the South Downs to Littlehampton!