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09:45 - Crossed the Start line
18:00 - Crossed the Finish line
Total time: 8hrs 15mins
W e m a d e i t !
We didn't manage to complete the ride in our target 6-7 hours, but there's always NEXT YEAR !
see our progress below by clicking on L2B2010
Sponsorship for ~
British Heart Foundation
http://www.bhf.org.uk/
Thanks to everyone who has very generously donated to BHF, we've smashed our £400 target within 24hrs - Fantastic !
We can still take donations until 20th Sept, if we could possibly DOUBLE IT ?
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Inspiration & Motivation
It all started at the beginning of this year 2010, after speaking with a good friend and previous work colleague Des, he indicated he'd just signed up for the bike ride. I took a few days to ponder the idea, but the seed was sown & I was off!
I need the exercise & maybe need to shed a few pounds too. I also know of another good friend, whose daughter benefited personally by the good work of the British Heart Foundation, so I felt it would be a great opportunity to make my small contribution, along with the other 27,000+ people who'll also be cycling on the day. I can also compete with my son, who has agreed to enter the bike ride and together we can encourage each other along.
Preparations & Training
We have dusted down our old bicycles, and even re-sprayed one into the newly fashioned "Stanridge Racing Green", we've had lots of help from our local cycle shops who have been really helpful in getting the bikes up to safe & useable standards.
We started down our local gym at a weekly spin class to get our bodies into shape and once the bikes were ready, we've hit the local streets in our hi-vis & trendy lycra. We started covering short distances on the flat and have now progressed to the peak of our physical fitness (feel free to laugh at this point!) having recently covered 40 miles & 34 miles over the last two weekends.
So we now believe we're ready for 'The Big One !'
Speacial thanks to the following;
Des Collier for planting the initial seed, lots of encouragement and organising 40 mile 'Downs link' training run
Rod Lambert ~ MrCycles.co.uk, Seaford for all the help servicing & preparing our two bikes
Jennie & Kerry ~ WaveLeisure, Peacehaven, for all the gym training and encouragement
Evans cycles ~ for some cool & figure hugging Lycra !
All our family & friends for encouragement & support over the months of preparation
Last Updated:
Fri, 09/03/2010 22:20
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