Sometime last year we decided that cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats would be a fun way to spend our summer holiday.

The trip will take 12 days through Cornwall, Devon, Wales, the Yorkshire Dales and up into Scotland arriving (hopefully) just under 1000 miles later at the northernmost point of mainland Britain.

The four of us usually keep fit by doing bits and bobs of sporting activity … but nothing like this! We eat too much, are far too easily swayed by the offer of “a quick pint” after work, and our power to weight ratio (key to cycling, we’ve been told) is not ideal. To add further complication we are separated by a large ocean as three of us live in London and one in New York.

This didn’t start out as a charity venture but a number of people generously asked how they could sponsor us.

We have all been very lucky never to have been diagnosed with cancer but sadly have friends or family who have had that awful experience, specifically with either leukemia or lymphoma. It’s for that reason we want to raise money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. It’s for those people we are riding.

If you could do anything to help, however much or however little, we’d be very very grateful for your sponsorship.

Thank you.

Rich, Chris, Henry and Jacko

** Check out our website where we have been blogging about our training and general things about what we're doing, the route, etc. (http://lejo.gs)

PS: In the early days of fundraising we changed to JustGiving to a big THANK YOU to those who donated on our previous page. We’ve added an image to this site so you can see those donations.