The BIG UK - Day By Day

Day One July 14th Day 2 July 15th

Day 3 July 16th

Day 4 July 17th

Day 5 July 18th

Day 6 July 19th

Day 7 July 20th

Day 8 July 21st

Day 9 July 22nd

Day 10 July 23rd

Day 11 July 24th

Day 12 July 25th

Day 13 July 26th

Day 14 Final Day July 27th Yehooo!

OUCH

Kepp those sponsors coming in!

May 2007 The Big UK Ride Warmup - Jody Foy Geraint Rowland & Special Guest Zsolt Schuler

The Big UK Ride Warm Up for the Lands End to John O Groats 07. Three Day training Warm up.

Day 1. Long Sutton, Somerset to Exeter 68 harsh miles, hilly, wet and strong head wind the majority of the way.

Day 2. Following a large night in Exeter and full on rain we didn’t get out on bikes until 4.00. 25 mile power ride. Proper hills. Proper buff. In addition over ten miles walked in evening.

Day 3. Seafront route from Exeter through Sidmouth to Lyme Regis then back to Long Sutton, three counties ride, pleasant day, mixed light winds, BIG hills. Tan on.

Exmouth is full of chavs and bad boy racers. Aggro rating: 8/10

Somerset to Devon - LARGE - and back

The BIG UK RIDE

THE BIG UK RIDE

Lands End to John O'Groats

16th - 31st July 2007

Claire Chedzoy, Clare Povah, Geraint Rowland and Jody Foy will be completing a mammoth challenge by cycling from Lands End to John O’groats. A Total of over 1000 miles, from the 14th to the 27th of July 2007.

To make this challenge worthwhile we are raising funds for WaterAID and hope to raise in excess of £5000. Please dig deep and sponsor us online, your donations are truly appreciated, you can sponsor us easily and securely here:

http://www.justgiving.com/landsend2johnogroats

The Plan so Far (Day-by-Day Route)

Day 1 Lands End to St Austell

The first day of the ride sees us setting off in high spirits from the very bottom of the UK at Lands End and cutting through the centre of Cornwall (Kernow) passing through places including: Sennen, Porkellis, Tregony and ending up slightly Northeast of St Austell. As beautiful this part of Cornwall is, its far from flat and will be a challenging first day to prepare us for a challenging two weeks.
Day 2 St Austell to Exeter

Day two sees us skirting across the remainder of the South Cornish coast before entering Devon and cutting diagonally through it on our way up to Exeter. We will pass through places including: Loo, Yelverton, Postbridge and Dunsford before finally arriving in Exeter. This mammoth ride will take us directly through Dartmoor’s National Park with all its hills…

Day 3 Exeter to Bristol

Day three will take us from Exeter in the South up through the middle of Devon, passing through Somerset and onto Avon passing places including: Cullompton, Wellington, Launton, Bridgwater and Burnham-on-Sea.

Day 4 Bristol to Hereford (England to Wales)

Day Four will be a monumental day taking us briefly into our second visited country of Wales. We will skirt past Bristol passing places such as Sandsford and Nortons Wood Lane before crossing the old Severn Bridge and entering Wales. Here we will pass through Chepstow, and through the hilly countryside of Monmouthshire.

Day 5 and onwards to be published soon

Our Charity - WaterAid

We are cycling from Lands End, Cornwall to John O'Groats, the very tip of Scotland over two weeks. Its a long way people, a very long way, up to one hundred miles each day and that's if Jody doesn't get us lost! Nearly a thousand miles in total, over all those hills and in the heat of summer! The riders are: Claire Chedzoy, Clare Povah, Geraint Roland, Jody Foy. We thank you for your interest and support.


What is WaterAid?

WaterAid is an international charity dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people. In the Western World we take safe, clean drinking water for granted but unfortunately there are millions of people in other parts of the World who don’t have access to it.

WaterAid works in partnership with local organisations in 15 countries in Africa and Asia to help poor communities establish sustainable water supplies and latrines, close to home. in 2003, WaterAid was named charity of the year at the Charity Times Awards. More information can be found here: http://www.wateraid.org.uk/.

Lands End to John O Groats!!!

THE BIG UK RIDE


Lands End to John O'Groats

16th - 31st July 2007

Claire Chedzoy, Clare Povah, Geraint Rowland and Jody Foy will be completing a mammoth challenge by cycling from Lands End to John O’groats. A Total of over 1000 miles, from the 14th to the 27th of July 2007.

To achieve this phenomenal challenge we will need to complete on average 75 miles per day, consume over 6000 calories a day, drink more than 5 litres of water a day and climb some of the steepest hills in England, Scotland and Wales, while completing all of this in the height of summer.

Imagine cycling from Taunton to Cardiff, over 7 hours of cycling, everyday for 14 days and carrying all of the supplies needed for the 2 week journey.

To make this challenge worthwhile we are raising funds for WaterAID and hope to raise in excess of £5000.

Please dig deep and sponsor us online, your donations are truly appreciated, you can sponsor us easily and securely here:

http://www.justgiving.com/landsend2johnogroats

This website will include more information on THE BIG RIDE and will include the day-by-day route we will take, team photos, training plans and so on. Following the ride we will post up photos from along our route.