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For the third year running a group of Ria’s friends and family will be cycling approx 150 miles from Loughborough University to Herongate Wood, Brentwood in Essex 🚲.

We will be taking to the saddle on Saturday 13 July and would appreciate your support to reach our fundraising target.

We will be raising money for Brain Tumour Research in memory of Ria who battled with a Glioblastoma Grade 4 Brain Tumour for 2 years 7 months.

Ria fought tirelessly throughout her journey but the prognosis for this stage of brain tumour is very poor. Ria underwent 2 major brain surgeries to try and remove the tumours, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and private immunotherapy in Germany amongst trying other treatments before it took her life way too young in August 2021 at age 25.

Ria studied at Loughborough Univeristy gaining a first class honours degree and she also represented the women’s football team. Ria loved her uni experience so we thought this would be a memorable start point. We will finish our challenge in Essex at Herongate where Ria was laid to rest so we can update her on all the stories / mishaps that happen throughout the challenge!

Brain tumour research receives less than 1% of national funding despite accounting for most occurrences of cancer in the under 40's and we want to play our part to change this awful stat.

The cycle team includes team mates: Sofie Armitage, Sacha Brinkley, Amy Longhurst, Toni Smith, Alice Hassall, Aoife Hurley, Lily Tyrimos, Chlo Gough and Nikki Russell. We are also lucky to have Rich and Paul providing bike mechanical support and Ria’s mum Carol and sister Kaz in the cycle squad!

Thank you for reading our story and for your kind donations! We will be sure to keep you updated on our ride! xxx