In The Beginning

Well, it's started.

I've now told everyone what I'm doing for the 2007 Edinburgh Marathon, I'm going to ride from New Mills, Derbyshire to Edinburgh, off-road, arrive on the Saturday and then run the marathon on the Sunday.

I've had some mixed reactions, almost all of them start with some reference to being mad.

The idea I've put out is that I want others to come and join me so we can raise as much money for the Meningitis Research Foundation as possible. The idea is simply this:

1. There's an open invitation for routes, between 50 and 75 km long, that can be stitched together to take me from New Mills to Edinburgh. The advantage of this is the use of local knowledge.
2. Riders come and ride with me for the day, if we can get a least half a dozen riders each day, all getting sponsored we can raise a lot of money over a week.
3. We aim to create a national bike trail to rival the Pennine Way footpath. All other bike routes are either circular or coast-to-coast.

I've managed to get a write-up in the MBR magazine (due out early November 2006) and I'm hoping to get some mentions in the my local tailquest email and the TCA newsletter.

It's going to go one of two ways here I think, it'll either fall flat and I'll have to do the route planning and riding all by myself or it'll be massive, I'm hoping for the latter.

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