Why?

Coming down off Snowdon

Hi, firstly I'm not a blogger, writer or in fact a cyclist but I’ll give it a go. It all started around a year ago I read a book called "The man who cycled the world" written by Mark Beaumont. This got me thinking, I want a piece of that experience. The books I read are generally of people climbing the highest mountains, rock faces, cycling the world, racing to the north & south poles, trekking the Sahara solo, that kind of thing so this venture seemed like a nice entry level challenge in comparison.


I approached Logan Macaulay who coincidentally was thinking of the same thing and had been for a while. Originally the plan was not to be a charity fundraiser just a personal challenge to cycle from the bottom to the top of the UK in 14 days. However, we came to the conclusion not doing it for charity didn’t quite mesh with us, as we were set on the cycle anyway and there was potential to help out a local charity it wouldn’t feel right not fund-raising. Logan suggested and we both agreed on Brighter Horizons based in Banff (more info at www.justgiving.com/chrisandlogan). As a bid to try and make the cycle more challenging as we now had a goal, or a reason for the cycle we decided to add in the 3 peaks challenge while still completing within 14days, on top of that too, we decided to try and nail a kick flip on the top of each peak.


I then needed a bike. Andy Duncan who I work with lent me his Cannondale Synapse which I was astounded by so a massive high five to him. Logan and I then started some 'training cycles' which to be honest spent more time in tea shops and the Garmouth Hotel bar trying out the newest ales. We never seen this as much of a problem as we both knew the cycle would be more mentally demanding than physically.


It was all set, date sorted, kit sorted, just giving site sorted. So there was no burning reason to explain reason why, more or less the main reason is that the challenge was there to be done, so we did it.