An Adventure in the Making

Last summer we cycled from Beverley to the Cropton brewery in North Yorkshire, it damn near killed us but we made it. A moderate 50 or so miles might be easy for more proficient cyclists. Essentially our challenges are real enough to us as we are two unfit idiots on bikes who are daft enough to push ourselves as far as we can go in the name of challenge and adventure.

This year a representative of Macmillan Cancer Support visited one of my classes to give a talk on their charity's activities and attempted to use this opportunity to persuade me to run in a 10k event. Shuddering at the thought of running further than the end of the street, I proclaimed that I don't do running but will cycle any length of distance... with a little bit of egging on from students, that was the beginning.

Mark is always more than willing to be involved in madcap and usually spontaneously agreed schemes; cycling the Transpennine route has been in the back of our minds for a while and doing this for charity gives us the concrete boundaries to ensure this comes to fruition.

So in July 2013 we are cycling the Transpennine Trail in hopefully 3 days to raise as much money as possible for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Adam