Lands End to John O Groats on 2 tandems: Day 1

Thursday 7 August 2008

Day 1

Up at 6.30 am for a 4 mile training ride to Lands Ends and back.
After a marvelous breakfast, we set off again to Lands End to check in and as tradition demands have our photograph taken by the famous Signpost. At 10.02 am we set off on our epic end to end journey. The first hour or so went smoothly until we took a detour to shelter box HQ, which was sat the top of what at the time we all thought must be the steepest hill in the UK ( on day 2 we discovered we were wrong). The Shelter box is a charity that sends relieve emergency boxes to disaster areas where ever and when ever they occur around the world. Shelter box treated us all to some very fine Cornish pasties, which helped us on our way, and also guided us on our to Bodmin, where we stayed at the Casi Casa. Whilst in Bodmin we had an excellent dinner in Bodmin Jail. Beer of the day was appropriately "Jail Ale".

Distance: 66 Miles
Riding Time 4hours 30 min
Weather Mixed but mainly sunny (Rob got sun burnt)

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Meet The Team

The Team members are Rob and Mike Latham, Ness Jackson and Ian Maynard.

Mike and Ian are members of the Rotary Club of Mendip, which is based in Cheddar Somerset.

Rob and Ness live in Dubai. The Idea for the trip came from Rob, who last Year completed the Absa Cape epic mountain bike ride and decided he needed a little less challenging trip this Year, he phoned Mike and said I have a question for you and the answer is YES, the question was would Mike like to ride from Lands End to John O Groats on a tandem in August 2008, after some consideration due mainly to the fact he had not riden a bike for over 35 Years, Mike answered the question with a Yes!

Over the last 14 months Ness and Ian were enlisted to ride with Rob and Mike and it was decided that if we were going to ride all that way, we had just as well do it for charity.

We are riding for different Charities, Rob and Mike for the Shelterbox trust which is an international project of The Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard, Ness is riding for a maternity wing at the Illam rural hospital in Napel and Ian is riding for Polio Plus which is a Rotary International project.