Mull 2 Hull 2011

It has started when .....

I was cycling from Mull to Hull 450 miles for a variety of reasons: to have fun, because I was able to, as a part of a survival strategy and to try to raise a shedload of money for charity! ... and I did it £2800 and a much perter bottom

And now... www.theride.org.uk

Friday 13th till Sunday 29th of July 2012

1000 miles, John O Groats to the Olympics, through 5 capitals (Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, London), A bunch of cancer patients (past or present) on their bike .... not your everyday journey

Organising a campaigning cycle ride to Have fun.... Cancer is deadly serious, but you can have serious fun with it..............Shout it out, you can live well with cancer because it is part of our lives not our whole life.............Calling for services to get and keep active to give us a better quality of life, through treatment and beyond.

You can join the The Ride

The whole hog, a few days, or a short ride with us, or maybe support The Ride and the campaign.

Life is for living

Friday 2 September 2011

1st of September Ullswater to Windermere

I really really really was not looking forward to this. Kirkstone pass the road between Ullswater and lake Windermere. Very high; a little bit too high for mortals like me. I have done it with the car ... gear 1 and seen cyclists and remember thinking, poor baggers, there is no need for that. Yes and there was, poor bagger me and so the motorists with they faces grinning with pity.
It started off ok steady climb and then turned nasty and was as it was not enough being vertical oh no it turned on itself and claimed to be concave. I managed to cycle till half a mile to the top with awful lot of huffing and puffing and cursing till the hill shaken me off from the bike and showed me who rules. So I got down and pushed ... then 200 yards from the top the road turned flat (thank you hill to saving my dignity) so I hoped back on and arrived in the car park fresh faced as it would have been a doddle. You would have been very impressed.
Downhill was fast and furious and around 40 miles an hour. I am getting a taste for this zumming buisness.
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  1. Julie Walsh2 September 2011 at 10:31

    Coolio. Well done, lady :) missing you at home and looking forward to seeing you with you pert bottom :) keep peddling xxx

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