Personally I’ve been very lucky as I’ve not had any family members nor friends who have been affected by prostate cancer. The reason that I’m raising money for the charity is that it best matches my audience demographic which is very male-dominated and prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and those over the age of 50.
Last year I did the walk across Scotland, from Prestwick to St Andrews, and I’ve done other charity efforts in the past few years but this one aligns closest with my audience. The 1 in 8 stat is the one that is the scariest. That is one man in every other tee time.
A few months ago I envisaged doing it a bit like a carpool karaoke style. So two passengers in the bike all four days, with a different guest each day, and I’d swap them in and out and we would have GoPros so there would be a bit of chat along the way. I’d seen this particular bike called a ParBike Quadricycle online but I couldn’t get hold of one. There was one in America and it was a bit last minute to get one shipped over in time. The support team found a similar bike in Wales but it had proper bike seats and I didn’t fancy that for four days so I went back and asked if there was any chance they could get one of these ParBikes?
They actually ended up sourcing one in Zurich and the main reason for that bike being used in Switzerland was that scientists were using it to go up a mountain to do research and that was their mode of transport. So they actually had two of them that were being retired. So we told them what we were doing and they kindly donated the bikes in exchange for three bottles of wine!
The support team went in a Transit van and picked up both the bikes, a blue one and the yellow one and basically used the parts from the yellow one to enhance the blue one to get it to a reasonable standard. You could tell that the bikes had been around the block a lot of times and therefore it was a lot harder than I expected; the gearing wasn’t good and it broke down a couple of times when I had to go on my own bike but ‘Barry’, as it was affectionately known, did us proud.
Like last year I worked with a team, Raw Adventures, and they basically do a recce of the whole route and it is all planned out. Last year I did a lot of walks down the side of canals and footpaths but that wouldn’t work for the bike, especially a four-wheel bike, so a lot of it was on the road and there were a lot more big roads than I expected.
Some of it at times was dual…
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