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In July I was meant to be cycling from London to Edinburgh and then back to London (LEL).  But 10 days before the event I was hit by a lorry.  I was lucky but did damage my knee and suffered from some gruesome road rash.  I limped to the line to start the event but only got as far as Thirsk in Yorkshire and had to head back to London.  I didn't think my knee would make it back - but it did.

Hoorah! I hear you cry.  

But no!  Because I made it back without the knee collapsing it has been playing on my mind ever since that I just gave up - used the dodgy knee as an excuse when it got tough.

So, to prove my manly toughness to myself I am going to ride from Lands End to John O'Groats - just slightly further and over roughly the same sort of terrain.  If the knee collapses I know I made the right decision on LEL.  If it doesn't then - hoorah! - all that training earlier in the year will not have been wasted.

I am riding in aid of Macmillans to help raise money on behalf of a friend at work whose father is terminally ill with cancer.  They have expressed how helpful and understanding the charity has been in supporting their family and I thought it was a worthy cause, dealing with an illness that still sees off over a third of us.

So dig deep, the charity is likely to be helping someone you know either now or in the future.