Carl and I are cycling the 54 mile London to Brighton with 'Team Paragon'. This is going to be a huge challenge, especially for me! The dreaded Ditchling Beacon is, I'm sure, going to be haunting me in my sleep...

Training is due to begin next month, alongside our continued house rennovations. We will be splitting our spare time between decorating and sweating it out around the hills of Surrey. Neither activity will be attractive, but it's likely both will end up in a public house beer garden catching some rays (rain), probably with me lying on the ground willing it all to end.

So, please help us make it worth all the effort and sponsor us now! We all know how worthwhile a charity the BHF is, so I shouldn't need to list a load of reasons for you. A penny, a pound, a tenner...it all adds up and will help improve someone's life. Remember to Gift Aid your donation!

We'll put up some photos during the course of our training and hopefully there won't be too many of me crying or falling off (a nice change from the New Forest ride in 2011).

Thanks again and wish us (me) luck...

Kirsty & Carl x