My New Years Resolution for 2018 was to be more charitable with my time ,help raise awareness ,and hopefully at the same time raise funds to help those less fortunate than I .With this in mind I have signed up to cycle the 300+ mile from London to Paris and will be doing so for the mental health charity MIND.
 I was fairly unfamiliar with mental  health issues until it affected my family several years ago when an immediate family member suffered from severe anxiety which thankfully has been kept at bay for the most part due to continued care and the care provided to them at the time . I appreciate that not everybody is so fortunate to have the support network they had so I am hoping to raise as much money as possible for MIND to continue their invaluable work as well as raising a general awareness among my network of friends as to the services they provide -  www.mind.org.uk

The ride from London to Paris is 308 miles in total and will take 4 days of cycling . Day one is the longest leg of the ride taking us from Crystal Palace to Dover covering 95 miles in the process . Subsequent days will be an average of 70 miles a days in the saddle . Having taken up 'proper' cycling as a hobby in May  2016 I have done rides of 60/70 mile distances on a few occasions but the biggest challenge I will face is doing those distances on consecutive days as it usually takes me several days to recover from such rides !!

I  aim to raise £2500 so I hope you can give as generously as possible and make it all worthwhile .

Thanks 

David xx