Our trip is now just two months away, and we're busy putting the finishing touches together to the planning. The Eurotunnel is booked so James and I can drive the van down to the start point in Sorrento. Steve and Jake are finalising flight times and will have these booked soon.
Training is going well. Steve has been over to Italy, and has risen some of the climbs - which is a fantastic scout out! Jake has been to Yorkshire and taken on some of the moors Up North. James has been doing his thing around Devon doing his "climbatron" and "climbathon" loops! Steve rode from London to Exeter last week too. Gedd'on boys!
James and I have written to a few companies to try and get sponsorship or support, and we're not getting very far. We've tried a few sports kit companies, as well as tyres. Last time we were able to secure a big discount from Brittany Ferries and some free on board dinner tokens. Eurotunnel sadly don't offer such discounts for charity trips. Maybe the boys can get better luck with their flights. We also had a big donation of stash from High 5 who gave us loads of energy gels and batter bottles, hopefully they can help us again :)
The MS Society have been in touch and are delighted that we have chosen to raise money for them again. They've spoken to us via email, on the phone and have sent us some advice in the post too. And some balloons!! Haha. As well as that they have given us some cycle jerseys, a running top for me, and some plain T shirts. Their branding has changed this year and the kit looked great. It's fantastic for us and the charity that we can really look the part.
In the next few weeks I'm going to be contacting some local media outlets to see if we can make an appearance on local radio or tv to try and raise awareness for our charity. If anyone has any ideas of either corporate organisations who might want to give us stuff, or ways of raising awareness, please let me know.
Here's James modelling our kit!
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