I just wanted to do one final post about my mad challenge of cycling the equivalent distance of the route from Land’s End to John o’Groats on my exercise bike.
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Back in the Saddle – Update 29
I have finally done it! After 528 days I have finally completed my exercise bike challenge. I have now pedalled the equivalent distance of the entire Land’s End to John o’Groats route.
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Read MoreBack in the Saddle – Update 28
I seem to remember in my last post saying something about hopefully finishing my exercise bike challenge (cycling the equivalent of the distance from Lands’ End to John o’Groats) by the 17 month anniversary of when I started. That would have meant I finished on 24th June 2022. As you can see, I haven’t quite achieved that. Once again, life had other plans.
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Read MoreBack in the Saddle – 2014 Anniversary
I was just looking through some old photos when I realised that it is 8 years since Cary and I completed the first Back in the Saddle sponsored bike ride challenge in aid of BuDS.
We took on the challenge to fill in a part of the Coast2Coast (C2C) cycle route from Whitehaven to Tynemouth which we had missed out the year before due to Cary having a cycling accident. It was always going to be a challenge to go back to the accident site, get on our bikes and cycle the section we missed, but it was also one of the wettest, coldest May days that either of us can remember. That made the challenge all the harder.
However, we achieved our goal, completed the challenge, and raised funds for BuDS at the same time.
Life has changed quite a bit for both of us since we did that ride. Disabilities mean that I don’t think either of us could manage it now. However, that determination to achieve goals is still strong within both of us.
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