MattHB
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Many thanks Jim
I'll return the favour, but next month as I'm a but skint this month! Link is http://www.justgiving.com/MattHB
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Many thanks Jim
I'll return the favour, but next month as I'm a but skint this month! Link is http://www.justgiving.com/MattHB
Many thanks Jim
Link is http://www.justgiving.com/MattHB
you're more than welcome and are doing it for a good cause.
Best of luck. Just doing the sponsorship atm.
MattHB
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yeah no probs at all. I feel good for sponsoring you as it's another charity I can tick off my list as helping in a small way.Many thanks Jim
BEst of luck with it.
MattHB
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yeah no probs at all. I feel good for sponsoring you as it's another charity I can tick off my list as helping in a small way.
BEst of luck with it.
I'm lucky to live right were the event starts and finishes so I'm busy training on the very roads of the event. I have a plan to follow to build myself up in time. I've only been on a bike since last October and I promised myself I'd do the ride in December! Since then I've managed to convince 4 work colleagues to do at least a part of the ride, so hopefully between us we can raise quite a bit Macmillan helped my mum through and my step mother (sadly didn't make it) so any bit I can do is great!Nearly everyone I know has been effected somehow by cancer, I really feel very strongly about the joy of supporting and training to help these charities out, it gives me real motivation to go out on the not so nice days
I believe that if we can, we should.
Nearly everyone I know has been effected somehow by cancer, I really feel very strongly about the joy of supporting and training to help these charities out, it gives me real motivation to go out on the not so nice days
You're definately right there. If we can, we should.
With regards to everyone knows someone. Yes for sure. 1 in 3 of us I believe will get it. THat's quite frightening. Certainly 3 members of my close family have had blood cancer.
My son with AML, my grandad with CML and my gran with Lymphoma. I lived with my gran and was very close to her. So it knocked me for six when that happened and for many years after. Though being in a specialist Cancer hospital and having to nurse a 2 / 3 year old who just doesn't understand what's going on is really grim and drives you wild wanting to actually be abke to do something to help. But other than be there and tell the Dr's and Nurses what you've seen/ how he is, there's nothing more you can do. This is why I'm doing something so I can make a difference and you doing your ride will also make a difference. So well done for taking up the challenge.
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Jim I would recommend a Turbo trainer as mentioned by others. Get some decent music to listen to and a laptop to look at. I have downloaded some spinning videos that are great workouts. You will need to vary your sessions to save you from boredom but these things give you the capacity to do some serious training, sweat lots and get that heart rate up.
If you can add a heart rate monitor, cadence sensor etc it makes it all that more interesting and rewarding.
I have one of these http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=68510
I have stuck my old steel framed mtb on it with some slicks on.
If you can add a heart rate monitor, cadence sensor etc it makes it all that more interesting and rewarding.
I have one of these http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=68510
I have stuck my old steel framed mtb on it with some slicks on.
Thanks doog. I think this is definately the thing for me when I can't otherwise get out the house.
thanks for the advice
they're very helpful in there, so not a bad idea russ.
MattHB
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I might get a turbo in a few months. Or at least by the end of the summer. Could put it in my garage man-cave!
Someone I worked with put their son on their handlebars. For some reason he had an accident doing that, both went over the handlebars onto the road. To protect his son he put his elbows down, and broke both of them.
He couldn't wipe his @rse for months, and looked like C3PO with elbow supports. How silly is that.
I'm definately onto this. Need to do something on the days I have to be in. Garage is a good idea.
