We’re getting on our bikes for Bowel Cancer UK, doing LeScot and LeJog for Cinders’ Memorial Cycling Challenge Starting on 30th March 2024 In memory of Cinders Nelson.

I’m Andrew Yeats and when I lost my lovely wife Cinders to bowel cancer 18 months ago, I resolved to raise funds for research and to raise awareness of the symptoms. I’m tackling LeJog, the most iconic of all long-distance UK charity cycle rides, starting at Lands End and finishing at John O Groats.

Good friends Abi Jacobs and Chris Bartram will be with me, doing their own version of LeJog too which they’re calling LeScot. As they’re both in teaching, the limitations of school holidays mean they’ll complete 11 days of high energy cycling as far as Gretna, clocking up 993km (617miles) before taking the train back home.

It will take me another 7 days to complete the total LeJog through Scotland a distance of 1,797km (1,117 miles)

Cinders had always planned to do this epic bike ride across the UK and loved cycling long distances, but sadly we missed the early tell-tale symptoms of bowel cancer, and she died in Sept 2022. Now we’re travelling the route she would have chosen, avoiding main roads and using back lanes, tow paths and old rail track cycleways. It makes the ride longer and more complicated, but we’re following her wish.

Bowel Cancer UK is the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity and campaigner for early diagnosis and awareness raising of the key early symptoms to look out for, to hopefully avoid acceleration of the disease to a critical stage, which was very close to Cinders' heart.

Bowel Cancer UK is here to stop loved ones like Cinders dying of bowel cancer.

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Thank you so much for donating to Bowel Cancer in memory of Cinders. ''It means so much”