Leverstock Green Cycling Team
End 2 End 2008 . . . 1000 Miles!

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Are you cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats on August 1st 2008? Well we are . . .
The trip should take approx 15 days, but this blog starts from when my friend Noel called me . . .

We are hoping to raise money for our designated charity the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted by undertaking this ride, so please feel free to sponsor us.

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SPONSOR OUR SELECTED CHARITY . . .

If you would like to pledge some money to our selected charity then please feel free to do so.

You can pledge money to our main sponsor at: http://www.justgiving.com/lgcce2e
Over the last 11 years the team has raised over £32,000 for the BHF undertaking the London to Brighton bike ride. This year we hope to raise over £4,000 for the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted.

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO DONATE THE TRADITIONAL WAY . . .

Please make your cheque payable to The Hospice of St Francis and give them to one of our team, Kim, Steve, Bryan, Segs, Noel, Richard. We will collect them and sometime in October we will have a party night in the cricket club when we will hand over all monies collected to the hospice. Many Thanks . . .

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THE ROUTE . . .

THE ROUTE . . .
Land's End, bottom left, John O'Groats, top right
1000 miles apart . . .

Itinerary

Day One The Prologue Friday 1st August 2008
6.00 a.m. Cricket Club
Drive to St Just, ride to Land's End, photo shoot ride back to St Just.

Day Two Saturday 2nd August 2008
St Just to St Austell 52 miles

Day Three Sunday 3rd August 2008
St Austell to Moretonhampstead 66 miles

Day Four Monday 4th August 2008
Moretonhampstead to Street 74 miles

Day Five Tuesday 5th August 2008
Street to Forest of Dean 72 miles

Day Six Wednesday 6th August 2008
Forest of Dean to Shrewsbury 79 miles

Day Seven Thursday 7th August 2008
Shrewsbury to Warrington 70 miles

Day Eight Friday 8th August 2008
Warrington to Lancaster 70 miles

Day Nine Saturday 9th August 2008
Lancaster to Carlisle 74 miles

Day Ten Sunday 10th August 2008
Carlisle to Peebles 71 miles

Day Eleven Monday 11th August 2008
Peebles to Perth 72 miles

Day Twelve Tuesday 12th August 2008
Perth to Dalwinnie 60 miles

Day Thirteen Wednesday 13th August 2008
Dalwinnie to Conon Bridge 80 miles

Day Fourteen Thursday 14th August 2008
Conon Bridge to Bettyhill 79 miles

Day Fifteen Friday 15th August 2008
Bettyhill to John O'Groats 51 miles
Party Night . . .

Day Sixteen Saturday 16th August 2008
John O' Groats to Witley Bay

Day Seventeen Sunday 17th August 2008
Travel Home . . .


Who's on this tour . . .

Noel . . .
A veteran of End to End . . . He did it last year.

Bryan . . .
Britvic as he's affectionately know . . . amongst other things . . .

Seggs . . .
Seen many times returning early to the club house on a Saturday afternoon.

Richard
Tricky Dicky . . . excitable chap . . . Ed's room mate . . .

Kim . . .
A man with a girls name . . . but a born leader in all sense of the
word . . . Ex Royal Navy you know - HMS Manchester!

Ian . . .
Ian the painter as he's affectionately known . . . new to the bunch but most welcome . . .

Ed . . . Driver
He doesn't know it yet though . . . but he's currently taking a course in cycle maintenance . . . Course nearly finished

Steve
Composer of this blog . . .

This was our 2006 Challenge . . . Whitehaven to Sunderland C2C

This was our 2006 Challenge . . . Whitehaven to Sunderland C2C
From L to R: Rent Boy, Kim, Britvic, Steve, Ged, Alan, Seggs, Colin.

Unfortunately not all shown in this picture are able to make the End 2 End 2008 . . .
but they will be behind us I'm sure . . . hopefully not rent boy!