Charities
12 Apr
Hi All
So what’s happening in the world of the Sunset Cruisers charity bid.
Well a minor change was made today in the sense that we have decided to split our efforts between 2 charities Cancer Research UK and now Help for Hero’s.
Story so far:
You see the thing is back in October when Dave first had the idea of doing this ride for charity it was a TV program called “Wounded” (a documentary about injured service men and women returning from Afghanistan) that inspired him to get off his big old butt and do something to help out.
Then in the subsequent months he decided he wanted to split this between the 2 charities after all suggestions were considered, the problem was when we went to go and create our JustGiving page for the first time it seemed we could only do the one charity. So the suggestion was made by the other members of the team to stick with Cancer Research UK as it was the one thing that had affected us all in so many ways.
However for a while Dave’s conscious has kept him awake at night and he feels he would be cheating the very reason that kicked this project off and wasn’t going to let a technicality on a website get in the way. So as of today thanks to a bit of investigation you can now donate to either charity or both (?) through either the donation tab on the site or directly.
NEWS UPDATE: Good and Bad!
Well since the launch we have had some donations so thanks for these, keep them coming as we have a long way to go yet!
Some unfortunate news of late was Marc in the group had a car crash (not his fault) but has resulted in the Doc telling him to stay off the bike for a while-so that’s rubbish for his fitness levels. However like a trooper he and I gave spinning a go last week, cheez
Yeah not for the faint hearted but surprisingly not as hard as we thought it would be, until to add insult to injury Marc got cramp in a major way in his leg, but he soldiered on!
Dave’s now breaking the 18 mile barrier on his evening cycle training and is on the hunt checking out the local hills on his single speed bike! He also did his first 28 miler on the other weekend this gave an excuse (not that you’d opt for one) for giving an ice bath a go for recovery and he now knows how Eddie Izzard felt-weeeeell sort of?
But we will all be building up very quickly to a regular 40m then 50m then ultimately 60 milers as the months go on towards July 30th-START DATE!.
The JC is also still boxing away every week for fitness and spent the other weekend up on a harsh trial in Wales on his relatively new mountain bike for some alternative training, but only for it to end in tears as his frame failed and cracked, but hey it’s all good its getting sorted with a new one hopefully on its way.
So that’s it for now look out for the next post were hopefully were have some more sponsors from the corporate field and more donations. SO KEEP THEM DONATIONS COMING-BIG THANKS!
All the best SC out!
