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I wanted to support a fabulous charity that helped my wife, daughter and I when our now 12 year old daughter was born prematurely.

12 weeks before my daughter Abi was due she decided she wanted to come into the world early. My wife experienced problems from 28weeks with our daughter and this culminated in my wife being hospitalised.The staff and hospital were amazing in every little detail helping support us through much uncertainty and helping us process what was happening. At 34 weeks she couldn’t wait any longer and Abi was born. There were several complications and she was in the high dependency unit for over a week but today you would never know what she went through when she was born We were one of the very lucky ones taking our baby home and this we realised very quickly as some of the children lying beside Abi were far sicker than she was and this is my inspiration to give a little back to those that helped us.

I'm fundraising for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity. I am individually cycling 2000 kilometres cycle to work conference in Portugal. It's a personal cycling event and I'm aiming to raise £750

Every year my company Hays Travel has an overseas conference which this year is to be in Portugal so I am going to cycle there. It is a distance of 2000 kilometres as the crow flies from our head office in Sunderland to Vilamoura in Portugal. Logistically this is going to be a challenge especially as I will still be working full time so I will be doing this over period of time outdoor and indoor starting with a Sportif Poppy Scotland of around 165kms on the 24th September climaxing in an in store day on the 21st October with a fun charity day. I will need to do between 80 to 100kms every day during this time to achieve this and will be setting off early before work with an extended commute and finishing after work in the country lanes of East Lothian.

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