Andy David and John’s LEJOG Challenge

DONATE HERE TO ASPERGILLOSIS                                                        DONATE HERE TO BALERNO HIGH SCHOOL TANZANIA PROJECT Preparing for our 1,500km 18,000 climbing challenge from Lands End to John O’Groats (LEJOG) is no easy feat. Finding weekends that work for Andy, David and John is hard enough. Overlay that with getting already stretched holidays from work and negotiating even more time away from domestic responsibilities makes the cycling seem easy! We decided to attempt a long weekend in May cycling a Scottish equivalent of LEJOG from Stranraer to John O’Groats. The idea of our “STJOG” was to simulate our last three days of the main event. Holidays, weather and other general commitments put paid to our best laid plans. So we reduced the trial to 2 days covering as much distance and climbing as possible. Even that was a challenge.  Day 1 started about 6.30 am for breakfast and in John’s case walking Leo the dog. We were on the road by 7.50. Andy couldn’t

DONATE HERE TO ASPERGILLOSIS                                                          DONATE HERE TO BALERNO HIGH SCHOOL TANZANIA PROJECT Wouldn’t it be great to cycle Lands End to John O’Groats sometime someone suggested  on one of our Fietsclub Sunday outings. That’s about 1,500km (915 miles) with at least 18,000 metres (58,000 feet) of climbing - about twice the height of Everest! Who would be foolish enough to take that challenge on! It seems Andy Hoggarth, John Grindley and David Heneghan are! As if it’s not tough enough it has to be completed in 7 days! The daily schedule for Andy, David and John’s challenge from Lands End to John O’Groats makes me tired writing it never mind cycling it.  Each day will begin no later than 7 am for breakfast with cycling beginning at 8. Stops for food will add up to 2 hours to each day so a 10 hour cycling day finishes around 8pm before getting ready to do it all again the next day! Day 1: 161km and 2,743 metres climbing (100 miles and 9,

DONATE HERE TO ASPERGILLOSIS Andy Hoggarth is cycling 1,500km from Lands End to John O’Groats with John Grindley and David Heneghan from July 6th to 13th to raise awareness of his wife’s lung disease.  Jo, Andy's wife,  suffers from the rare and debilitating lung disease,  aspergillosis. This is a widely misunderstood allergy to a fungal spore ( Aspergillus ) found everywhere in our lives, indoors and outdoors.  For the few people affected by Aspergillosis , this means constant exposure to its devastating effects which, in Jo's case, include persistent chest infections, breathlessness, wheezing, chest or joint pain, exhaustion and violent coughing that induces bleeding of the lung.  These symptoms are compounded by the extensive side effects of daily drug therapies which suppress the growth of a fungal ball that has developed in each of Jo's lungs. Surgery is not an option for Jo as this would require removal of 40% of her lung tissue.  Being a rare d

DONATE HERE TO ASPERGILLOSIS                                                          DONATE HERE TO BALERNO HIGH SCHOOL TANZANIA PROJECT Just 7 weeks till we start our LEJOG challenge - 1,600km in 7 days. Hopefully, the weather will be a little kinder than today with wind from the completely wrong direction! Just in case there’s any doubt of how big that route is the photo below should help! We don’t do that exact route but it will be similar in distance and difficulty.  Aspergillosis                                                                                                                         BHS Tanzania Just 7 weeks till we start our LEJOG challenge - 1,600km in 7 days. Hopefully, In any case next weekend (May 24 to 26) we will test our ability to do a multi day event covering more between 160k and 250k each day with our “STJOG” challenge - Stranraer to John O’Groats. At the moment the weather is looking good for the first day but northerly wind

DONATE HERE TO ASPERGILLOSIS                                                          DONATE HERE TO BALERNO HIGH SCHOOL TANZANIA PROJECT Wouldn’t it be great to cycle Lands End to John O’Groats sometime someone suggested  on one of our Fietsclub Sunday outings. That’s about 1,500km (915 miles) with at least 18,000 metres (58,000 feet) of climbing - about twice the height of Everest! Who would be foolish enough to take that challenge on! As if it’s not tough enough it has to be completed in 7 days! Well it turns out that a few beers in the Grey Horse was enough to expose Andy Hoggarth, John Grindley and David Heneghan as that foolish. On July 6th, 2019 the three will begin their attempt to complete the route. In preparation they will attempt a “trial run” known as “STJOG” (Stranraer to John O’Groats) at the end of May in 3 days to test the bikes and the legs. While every muscle will ache for the 7 days some great charities will benefit. The aim is to raise at least  £10,000