London 2 Paris - March update #2

Slight neglect to this page since the first post, to which apologies are due. Moving on...

Since I started fundraising back in mid-March or so, the JustGiving page has received a nice bit of attention. Donations have come (family-orientated only so far) from four extremely generous people, to which I must say thanks to!

I recently went on local Christian radio station Hope FM with this bloke --->
down in Bournemouth to promote the cycle, and although donations didn't quite come, at least awareness of the cycle has been raised a bit!

I'm also in talks with the manager of my university gym regarding a fundraising event there - either a cardiovascular activity such as a 3-mile cycle, or a nice and simple sit-up challenge that anyone can enter for a quid. If this goes to plan, it should be underway in the next few days...

Also reached out to a few newspapers back home in London, and hopefully I'll be able to reach out to a few more people regarding the cycle.

As far as training is concerned, I'm getting a good few rides under my belt. I went pretty quickly from an 8-mile cycle to Boscombe, to a 12-mile cycle to Sandbanks, to a 19-mile cycle to first Sandbanks and then Mudeford in the South coast. I'm also doing a few cycles with Rubes, a mate who's doing the cycle with me, so we shouldn't be too far apart as far as fitness levels matter come the time of the cycle. Everywhere I go I'll cycle now, so I'm getting enough hours on the saddle - though the investment in padded shorts will be coming in the very near future.

Until the next update, don't forget to have a glance at my JustGiving Page! Cheers :)


(P.S. How ironic is this?