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The Race - Ireland 2016. Click here to add this page to your favorites. There are many reasons people take on challenges, let alone extreme challenges, so why have I? 2008 saw myself and a friend complete an. To help build myself back up to fitness, I completed the Oxfam Trailwalker. In July 2011 and was mobilised once again to Afghanistan.
What have we let ourselves in for? Saturday, June 16, 2007. 57 hours 32 minutes cycling. Stuart Denham for the support over the first 4 days. Tina Denham for carrying our rucksack to Penrith.
A quiet stretch along the Ripon Canal. Despite considerable time spent planning my itinerary I somehow managed to book my accommodation such that I was forced to travel on a bank holiday Monday. What was I thinking? My next destination was Ripon. A 52-mile journey by car but a six hour odyssey by bus. The two hour drive to York.
Mick Fairhurst is originally from Lancashire and enjoyed a long career in the Royal Navy, living for some years in Scotland, and for the past 25 years has been living in East Cornwall. A lifetime touring cyclist, Mick completed his first End to End in 1994, and in 2006 rode LEJOG and Back again. Both rides were completely unsupported. He has also driven in a support vehicle assisting fellow LEJOGers. Thursday, 17 April 2008.
Saturday, 3 September 2011. Did the diet with Dickie work? The results are in! The post ride weigh in took place this morning and the results were. Friday, 2 September 2011.
We are also raising money for thr Cystic Fibrosis Trust as part of this challenge. The very moment we got to the sign, there was another bunch of cyclists heading out in t.