Brian Jamieson, Michael Lee, Paul Fitzsimmons, Stephen Canty and Kevin Farrell are planning to cycle through and to raise £20,000 for Liverpool’s specialist heart and chest hospital, The Cardiothoracic Centre.
We have organised the trip to thank you to the hospital for the remarkable care and treatment that Michael's father received whilst a patient at the hospital.
Michael explains “The expedition will take us 9 days and we will be cycling through and covering 600 kilometres - which at the moment seems like a mammoth task. We will be averaging around 65 kms per day in the Asian heat but we will be spurred on by knowing that every pedal we push may prolong a life for heart patients in this region”.
“My father suffered a stroke and had a number of heart attacks and we want to do something for the hospital’s Merseybeat Appeal to show our appreciation and, at the same time, help others”.
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Brian, Michael, Paul, Stephen and Kevin.
Update as at 19.11.2007
"Three days in and this is the first time we have found a place that has a wifi or internet connection that worked long enough for us to get a message out. Cycling is going well and we have spent the first three days in the Mekong Delta. The boys are doing well and setting the pace - as you would expect!! 55km covered the first day but Leo had an accident - not on the bike but on the ferry taking us across one of the thousands of river/canals that are throughout this region. This made for a bizzare episode for Brian & Leo in a rural hospital and I use the term hospital loosely. The first foreigners to ever visit the facility - that said he was treated really well and received a number of stitches to a head wound - he is now soldiering on. Covered 85km yesterday through roads full of the estimated 20 million mopeds in Vietnam for their 80 million population - it was hard but again the pace was set by the lads and we all finished at the front!! Road cycling is hazardous here and traffic is immense but even on the single lane dirt tracks in the jungle areas and rural villages there is a remarkable amount of traffic and you would be amazed how many vehicles, bikes and pedestrians can pass on what to us is no more than a footpath. Quite scary when either side is not so good looking rivers. Lots of sore bums, knees and necks (from the sun burn) right now but we are about to start a 75km ride and hopefully will arrive in a place that allows us to send another update".... watch this space!
