Clive Moore
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Fundraising for British Paralympic Association
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What I added after completing the ride: It feels so good not to be on the bike again today – hats off to all the other riders who are cycling the full 960 miles to John O’Groats – but yesterday was the toughest/longest day I have ever spent on a bike…not helped by riding with an injury I picked up on my last training ride – which I hoped would fix itself with a week’s rest…
It all began before the sun was up – 6am at the Lands End start camp – with another 600 riders trying to get to the loo just one more time before heading off into the mist at 7am…
Ten hours later I arrived in Okehampton (8 hours riding) – feeling extremely tired but exhilarated at the same time (and not just because I knew I was not going to have to get up at 6am the next day and do it all again, and again for the following 8 days…).
The weather was beautifully sunny, around 22C and very little wind to slow us down or cool us off.
The route was extremely varied – apart from the relentless hills. Towards the end of the day we crawled up each long hill hoping that would be it, just to find the road dipping down and up again.
I rode with 11 team mates from Kraft Foods – we all made it to Okehampton though there were a couple of accidents, a few mechanicals and I and another team mate almost got trampled by two stampeding horses who were spooked by a tractor coming the other way – just as we were trying to overtake them (thankfully it was all over before we could worry about it – but it looked good to our team mates behind us who saw two horses rise on to their hind legs, circle around and then gallop like crazy either side of us) – very memorable…like the entire day.
What I said when I first set up my Just Giving page: I have signed up to cycle 111 miles (179km) from Land’s End to Okehampton in Devon, on 8 September 2012. This is the first day/leg of the 2012 Ride Across Britain, in support of the British Paralympic Association, which is doing a great job to change the way people think, feel and behave towards disability, and to inspire a new generation of people with a disability to get in to sport.
This is going to be a much tougher challenge than the Irish Four Peaks walk I completed in 2011, not least because I’m no cyclist! In fact, when I signed up for the challenge, I did not even have a road bike (other than my motorbike – which unfortunately is not eligible).
However, I now have a suitable push bike, amply padded shorts and plenty of saddle cream (!), and have started peddling around my local Cotswolds hills, which I’m told will help me prepare for my ride in September which is rather unappealingly described as follows:
"Riding from Land's End to Okehampton you will cross the edge of Bodmin Moor and skirt around Dartmoor taking in a number of short sharp climbs and descents that Devon and Cornwall are so famous for"
As mentioned, I have until September 8 to get myself ready for the challenge and also raise some cash for the Paras – which is where you can help: i.e. I would really appreciate you sponsoring me to complete the ride – which will encourage me to get stuck in to the training I need to do and not to chicken out!
If you are able to help – please “encourage me" as much as you wish!
Many thanks
Clive
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