We are cycling the traditional Coast to Coast (C2C) route from Whitehaven in Cumbria to Tynemouth in Northumberland, 137 miles in 3 days. To solve the challenge of getting back to our car in Cumbria, we decided to ride back again! The return journey is known as the Reivers route, through Kielder Forest, into Scotland, back south via Carlisle, 173 miles in 4 days. We are carrying all our gear on mountain and hybrid bikes. GULP!

We are raising funds for the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, which is the UK's heart failure charity based in Preston. In March 2017, Trev's mum Vera passed away after years of struggling with heart failure. Two of Ali's many sisters are now struggling with the disease. So you can see that this is a cause very dear to us. Heart failure is very different from a heart attack, it is when the heart cannot pump enough blood to support the needs of the other organs in the body. One in five of the UK's population will develop heart failure in their lifetime.

The core activities and strategy of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation are driven by the needs of heart failure patients, carers and family communities we serve. We get to the real crux of the problems, the problems that patients tell us they have. Our communities are large and we have superb interactions with them, we run the largest Facebook page dedicated to Heart Failure globally so we fully understand the needs and challenges they face. We develop and distribute patient information to the vast majority of NHS Heart Failure Teams in the UK.