I’m not the only one in the family training hard at the moment – I want to give a quick shout out to my father-in-law Steve, who is currently training for cycling John O’Groats to Land’s End later this year.
Steve is blind (which makes steering a little tricky!) so he has teamed up with his friend Pete and they will be riding a Cannondale tandem. They are aiming to ride their 856 mile end to end route in 11 days, slightly faster than I rode it back in 2003 but hey, they’re on a tandem so they have 2 sets of legs pedalling – I only had mine (plus the route I took was over 65 miles longer, detouring slightly through the Welsh hills!)
The ride will be raising money for 2 great causes – Bowel Cancer UK, and A.B.L.e.
Good luck guys, and hope you have better luck with the weather than the 12 days of non-stop rain I had!
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June 8th, 2010 at 9:31 am
[...] Cannondale tandem on Friday. As I mentioned in a post last month, my father in law is going to be cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End for charity in the summer, and since he is blind he is riding a tandem. His partner for the trip [...]