Blatant non boaty plug for your hard earned

[rafiki_]

Anonymous, thanks also for your donation and yep, been looking at a few videos of folk climbing (literally) Ditchling Beacon, it's gonna hurt

cheers Gary

Home turf for me Gary, was dragged up just Sarf of the Beacon. Would love to join you for the ride, but not sure if the diary suits just yet.

 

[oGaryo]

Home turf for me Gary, was dragged up just Sarf of the Beacon. Would love to join you for the ride, but not sure if the diary suits just yet.

Now that would be a result if you did Paul

 

[oGaryo]

Peter (Rubberduck), thank you very much for your donation and your comment on the Just Giving page, it makes it that much more worthwhile. many thanks again

kindest regards Gary

 

[andy59]

Hi Gary , hope all goes well for the ride , ( bound to ) will sort donation when back home in front of pc . Let me know at the beer & natter how many / what type batteries your posse need for the ride and I will sort them out for you .

 

[oGaryo]

Hi Paul (VolvoPaul) thanks for yours and Beverley's donation mate. Sorry you can't make the Beer and Natter gathering but hopefully see you soon.

cheers Gary

 

[oGaryo]

Hi Gary , hope all goes well for the ride , ( bound to ) will sort donation when back home in front of pc . Let me know at the beer & natter how many / what type batteries your posse need for the ride and I will sort them out for you .

Sorry, Andy, been so full on with work I've not picked up on your post. Thanks for the kind offer of the batteries, will have a chat at the B&N. Hope you all had a great holiday.

cheers Gary

 

[oGaryo]

crickey, less than a month to go and just lately, I've been doing zero exercise and eating / drinking far too much due to work commitments working silly hours Monday to Friday and boaty stuff at the weekends which always involves rich food and booze. just weighed in at 14st 2lbs, I should be down to 13st !!! :disgust:

Going to fix that in the next 4 weeks starting today, just back from a 10 mile cycle in the rain. bike has been readied for another ride tomorrow after work and there'll be no booze between now and the ride other than at the Burlesdon regatta this coming weekend (would be rude not to ).

 

[oGaryo]

Yay, we did it and bloody hard work it was too.

The charity folk set a challenging route through a number of hilly sections and then to top it off, had us bike to the sea front and then about a mile back up to the finish line at Brighton Race course, very steep and not what you want after biking for several hours through the early hours with no sleep. We stopped off for a total of about an hour all told at the 3 'refuelling' stops and took about 8 hours in total to complete the ride setting off at 11:30pm.

Lots of accidents along the way with folk falling off their bikes in the fast downhill sections, I hope nobody was seriously hurt, it kept the ambulances busy that's for sure!. We were diverted for around 5 miles in London due to a car fire which resulted in us all doing 70 miles all told rather than the 65 we were meant to. All in all, a very gratifying accomplishment undertaken with my best mate (son) for a massively worthy cause.

It leaves me to post the evidence of us at the finishing line and to extend a huge thank you to all of you that have dug deep to contribute to the £2280 raised for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity :encouragement:

May (maybh1) and Simon (sishoe), thanks so much for your additional donations yesterday

 

[rafiki_]

Brilliant result Gary, well done to you and your lad. A fantastic amount to raise for the charity, and a great effort on the bike.

 

[henryf]

I pay good money to see you cry tears of sweat and hear how your arse feels like it's gone through Tuesday morning showers in B block but instead you post up a picture in an ill fitting cycle helmet quaffing Champagne.

Very disappointing to say the least.



Well done mate, tell me how much it hurt over a beer next time we meet

Henry

 

[jfm]

Many congratulations Gary and Jamie - that was a great effort for BBC. Respect!

 

[oGaryo]

thanks again everyone. for those interested, here's how we did. considering we stopped off for well over an hour at the rest stops, we didn't do half bad coming in 287th and 288th out of the 834 riders starting the event and 790 finishing it, with the longest ride times around the 15 hour mark.

The plan is to get in the top 100 next year with more training and less rest time between legs but this time, we'll likely do something for a Heart charity for hopefully obvious reasons where I am concerned I am also hopeful that a few forumites will join me on the ride next year, especially if the forum gets behind it again like you did for this event as that should secure more money for what I now know to be an equally worthy cause that quite possibly saved my life :encouragement: Please PM me if you are interested in participating.

A final thanks for your support on this one, you should all be rather proud of yourselves if I may say so :encouragement:

 

[rafiki_]

Great job Gary. I will join you on the Mobo forum Cycle for Hearts ride. Action for Hearts already do a number of managed rides, like your BCC ride, but if we get sufficent interest, we could consider doing something that ends up at OV or Hamble or whatever. I would PM you, but can't. For some reason I can only reply to PM's, and can't ping a new one. Have tried the Admin route, but no assisitance as yet. Strange!
By the way, good to hear that you are on the mend, and planning future rides.

 

[oGaryo]

Great job Gary. I will join you on the Mobo forum Cycle for Hearts ride. Action for Hearts already do a number of managed rides, like your BCC ride, but if we get sufficent interest, we could consider doing something that ends up at OV or Hamble or whatever. I would PM you, but can't. For some reason I can only reply to PM's, and can't ping a new one. Have tried the Admin route, but no assisitance as yet. Strange!
By the way, good to hear that you are on the mend, and planning future rides.

Nice one Paul, finishing in Southampton sounds interesting. I'll start a thread to see who'd been interested in a YBW Mobo section event next year, there's two of us so far