The team will aim to complete the challenge in 50 hours and will cover over 500 miles in the process.

Among the individuals taking part there will be some well kent names from British rugby over the last 30 years. Including Mike Teague, Dean Ryan and John Hall from England, Colin Charvis, Alix Popham, Ian Gough from Wales and Iwan Tukalo, Duncan Hodge, Craig Joiner, Ian Smith, Carl Hogg, Graeme Marshall, Andy Macdonald, Ian Paxton and Rory Lawson from Scotland. RWC winning captain, Martin Johnson, will also be joining us from Edinburgh to Penrith along with Scottish Footballs Ally McCoist. As well as hero of the endurance cycling world in Mark Beaumont.

Our route to Cardiff will see us stop at the following rugby clubs: Selkirk, Penrith, Preston, Birkenhead, Ruthin, Dolgellau, Aberystwyth, Talgarth (Gwernyfed RFC), Gloucester, Chepstow and Newport.

All have been inspired by their old team mate/opponent, Doddie Weir, and his fight against MND. And we will all be cycling for 2 days along the cold and dark winter roads to raise funds for My Name'5 Doddie Foundation.

We will all be decked out in My Name'5 Doddie Foundation tartan, and are looking for your support. All monies will go directly to the charity, and into research to find effective treatments for this dreadful disease. The cyclists will be covering all the costs of their own ride and support vehicles.

My Name'5 Doddie Foundation has ploughed £6.5m into MND research in the last 4 years, and we hope that a breakthrough in treatment will be just round the corner, in time for Doddie, and to help the countless future victims of MND.

We could not does this without the support of our amazing sponsors: Baillie Gifford , The Wood Foundation , Scotbeef , Brewdog , John Clark Motor Group , Ogilvie Fleet , Pax8 , Millwood Capital , JT3 , Alpine Bikes, Thrify and Spaceships Rentals.

Any support you can offer would be amazing, with the wonderful support of the WRU, we hope to hand the ball to Doddie himself just before the match KO in Cardiff.

Many thanks,

Rob Wainwright