BBC Children in Need 100 Mile Challenge

[Snoop Doug]

Oh crikey. I've decided to do a fund raiser for BBC Children in Need. How? Well on November 16th I'm going to ride my bike into work from my home in Carshalton to Gatwick. When I get there, the bike will get hooked up to a turbo trainer and I will continue to pedal until I cover a minimum of 100 miles .

I've just set up a web page to receive donations [url]http://www.justgiving.com/douglasshaw[/url]

This is going to be a painful and somewhat tedious experience so please - help to make it less so by sponsoring me. Any contributions very much appreciated.

Cheers - Snoop Screwloose

PS - Sean if you do send an en masse email out in the next week could you pls include this in it? Ta.

[MJ_1993]

right...arent there less extruciating ways to raise money.


Good on yer Snoop, good luck. I'll chip in.

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

Can I watch????

I'll support you.

[Kasper]

If we had more trainers we could 've made it a club thing to raise money. As it is you've got my support Doug.

[Snoop Doug]

Today's the day folks. I've had a great response so far and I'll be starting the long one soon. Brrrrrr! I may go past Gatwick and further South to reduce the time spent in the office on the turbo snoozer - we'll see.

Hope to report in later.

Yours daftly - Snoop

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

I've paid me dubloons, so off you go.....

[huw williams]

[quote="Snoop Doug"]Today's the day folks. I've had a great response so far and I'll be starting the long one soon. Brrrrrr! I may go past Gatwick and further South to reduce the time spent in the office on the turbo snoozer - we'll see.

Hope to report in later.

Yours daftly - Snoop

[Snoop Doug]

Ah Huw - sage advice which arrived too late. My advice to anyone else would simply be do NOT volunteer to do something like this - part two really did me in.

I set off @ 8.30 freezing cold and rush hour traffic. I went down to Gatwick on the A23 figuring smaller roads might be a bit dodgy. So I went past our offices at Gatwick and continued to a section of the G25/53 where it got even bloomin colder! Me ears were burnin even tho I had a thermal skull cap ear cover thingie on. Me feet were cold too despite ole faithful overshoes. So - I returned to the office with 27 miles on the clock.

Was I really going to complete the ton on a turbo snoozer? Yup. I ground out 73 miles on the big ring and mainly on resistance level 4 (mine has 6 settings). I suffered big time and got as bored as you like although I got lots of passing encouragement from colleagues.

My ave speed was about 15.5mph outdoors mainly due to v busy rush hour traffic on narrow local roads. On the turbo snoozer I tapped out a 20mph average for over 3.5 hours.

I'm knackered. Got around £100 in a bucket @ the office which I managed to refrain from vomiting in and there's about £325 on the website so far. Happy with that, I'll sleep well tonight.

Enjoy the club run tomorrow I'm going shopping for a new washing machine (yawn).

Cheers - Snoop

[Andrew G]

Congratulations Snoop, anything more than half an hour on a turbo desreves praise.

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

I said "Anything less than resistance level 6 and I'm not paying"

[Maria David]

Well done Mr Snoop.

3.5hrs non-stop on a turbo - must be worth a trophy !

Maria
http://2wheelchick.blogspot.com/

[Snoop Doug]

Thanks Maria - you provide it - I'll accept, ain't no other way I'll get me hands on one

Cept of course a teeny share of the Rawson Fireguard

[Mike I]

Looks like you started something. Fatty's getting in on the act, and the Garmin read-out is a classic ...

[url]http://www.fatcyclist.com/[/url]

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

Good spot Mike