The Boys are on their Bikes!

If anyone has seen an exhausted looking estate agent riding through Milford on Sea village resplendent in retro cycling trousers, do not be alarmed.  You have probably seen Jason Withers from Collins & Butler.

Jason is full on training for a rather special charity bike ride with a group of friends, including Josh Lines, who’s mum & dad (Paul & June) run the Red Lion.  Josh is athlete of the group and probably best suited to the job in hand.  A keen rugby player, gym enthusiast, surfer and cyclist. (Very much like your editor)  Jason is the musician of the group and will hopefully be serenading the team each evening after a hard day on the saddle.  Jason has plenty of previous cycling experience having cycled from Lymington to Newquay in Cornwall (with Josh), just for fun. He likes nothing more than surf in the morning to start the day followed by an afternoon on his motorbike cruising around the New Forest.  The rest of the team are made up of their friends Dan, Hannah and Bligh.

The team will set off from Largs Yacht Haven, on the West Coast of Scotland on Sunday 6th May 2012.  They then face a 6 day cycle to Lymington Yacht Haven, covering around 475 miles along the way. (And no doubt will suffer from considerable ‘saddle rash’!)

The primary aim of the cycle is to raise money for The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.  The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust is a nationwide organisation that takes young people aged between 8-24 sailing to help them regain their confidence, on their way to recovery from cancer, leukemia and other serious illness.  The Trust is a charity that gains all funds from donations and fundraising activities such as the challenge the guys are planning.  They are hoping to raise something in excess of their £5k target.

I did of course offer to join them, but my bike still has a puncture and my wife is too busy installing our new kitchen to fix it just yet.

If you fancy watching how Jason & Josh get on, you can track their progress as they upload info and photos on the move to the website below.  Most importantly, if you would also like to sponsor them, you also can do it on the link below.

www.largs-to-lymington.webeden.co.uk