On 12 May, we are atrempting to cycle 100 miles in a day around Birmingham and the West Midlands to raise money for Cure Leukaemia. It was only with their intervention that our close friend Lizzie was able to make it to our wedding last year and they are working hard to help those diagnosed and find a cure.

We are pretty keen cyclists but we have never done anything this big. To be honest, looking at the route (something we only did after we'd signed up) it looks a lot scarier than we'd expected.

We are not looking forward to training in the dark but we know it will be worth it. For us, for Lizzie and for Cure Leukaemia.

Cure Leukaemia helps blood cancer patients to access pioneering drug and transplant treatments by funding a network of specialist research nurses across the UK. Without these nurses, to ensure patients are monitored and cared for, clinical trials of these new treatments would not run and patients, that have exhausted standard treatment options, would miss out on potentially lifesaving therapies. Every penny raised for Cure Leukaemia helps save lives and also hastens global progress towards the eradication of all forms of blood cancer.