Do you have breasts or love someone with breasts? then you could be unfortunate enough to be affected by breast cancer. How many people just hope that it will never happen to them or their loved ones? - everyone. Absolutely everyone. But you don't have to have it to fight it....

On Saturday 16th July 2022 and together with colleague Adrian Engelbrecht I'm riding the Dunwich Dynamo overnight cycle ride from London to the Suffolk coast.... and back. That's a round trip of about 250 miles, but because of an events clash I'm also running the Snowdon Mountain Race in North Wales that afternoon. Now I'm used to endurance events and have done both before, but not the add-on return leg to London and never with another event, so I'm genuinely unsure if this is going to be a challenge too far. My rationale is that if I'm asking you to dig deep and sponsor me then I'll need to be worthy of it and dig deep too. What will keep me going is the thought that however tough it gets, however many times I feel like packing it in, it'll be nowhere near the everyday tough of the dreaded disease itself.

What can I do? - I can do this. With your encouragement I will do this. I won't let you down.

What can you do? - You can donate whatever you can. Whatever sum, great or small will be gratefully received and will go to treating that person and finding that cure. If you can guarantee that person won't be you or yours then disregard this appeal.

Adrian and I are members of the Metropolitan Police South East Cycling Club, pictured above which includes British Transport and City of London Police officers, and Breast Cancer Now is our 2022 charity.

                                             ***UPDATE****

Firstly, thank you again for sponsoring me in my recent endurance event. Here’s an update..

Well, I did it, and it was genuinely the most physically
demanding event I have ever undertaken. I finished Sunday night at 21:15, completely wasted and more than a little disorientated.
I began at 14:00 on Saturday 16^th when I started the Snowdon
Mountain Race in North Wales. The temperature was above 30C so not conducive to running up a mountain. Nevertheless I did, finishing one minute quicker than when I did it last time in 2019 before Covid, so I was very pleased. As soon as I finished I was driven by a friend back to London where I met a cycling club colleague at London Bridge Station. We set off at 23:15 to take part in the Dunwich Dynamo overnight cycle ride from London Fields, Hackney, to the Dunwich
beach, Dunwich Suffolk, a distance of approx. 125 miles. Allowing for stops, we arrived at 09:00. Normally, the Dynamo ends at that point, however for sponsorship purposes we planned to ride back to London Bridge, so after Adrian had breakfast we set off again on the return leg, leaving Dunwich at about 10:00. By this time the heat had built to the high 20sC and Adrian, my colleague succumbed. I continued alone. As the heat rose I was forced to stop for water and shade every half hour. Those were the times when I had moments of doubt. Eventually I arrived back at London Bridge at 21:15 – riding for 22 hours.

It is fair to say I was, and still am completely shattered,
but rather pleased that I achieved something which I had doubts about. It is also absolutely true to say that your kind sponsorship really did keep me going as I could have easily abandoned at very many points. I was conscious of your generosity and want to thank you once again.

You have made a difference.

Steve.

Thank you for your support. Don't just hope - Make a difference..