Ok I have never contemplated climbing up mount Everest amongst other things it is too high at 29,000 foot it is too high. However cycling the equivalent of twice up takes some thinking about. This is what I will be doing by cycling from John O Groats to Lands End this Saturday. All the hills I have to climb in the nine days amount to 73,187 foot. The schedule starting on the 12th June:
The first Friday of the Southampton boat I had the pleasure of presenting some of the results of my hard work to the Ellen Macarthur Trust.
Intimidating, as they looked a weekend of scooter boys showed you can’t judge a book by its cover.
Somehow no matter what you organise, sometimes something happens that changes everything and threatens to overshadow it. I got involved in helping to co-ordinate an Olympic handover in Southampton.
Before this even started there were moments of stress, the van I had booked ended up in someone else’s hands. Thankfully three days later it was mine butit meant us getting the ferry over later on Thursday than planned. Never mind because we were set up and readyto go on Friday morning after a night settling in at UKSA. The rowing machines were working and attachedto the laptop and everything was neatly presented. On the first day myself and fellow volunteer Craig Biles waited for our first customer. It turned out to be a young lad Joseph, who was quickly followed by two police men who raced against each other.
One of the methods for raising funds has been getting the big bath ducks signed. The latest in the collection was signed by Martin Clunes and I got to meet him at the Weldmar fete. It was a really good occasion and well orgainsed. I got to meet the man himself and got my photo with him. I did spend half the day wandering around like a lost child trying to find other people to speak to that I would glance in the distance.
