🚴♂️ Day 13 Update: Breathe For Life Team Cycle Challenge – To Penicuik – The Breathe For Life Team Cycle Challenge, 3rd October 2019. Pooley Bridge to Penicuik. 110 miles, 5285ft elevation gain. Jo Halloran, Alk Positive Patient, joined us for 25 miles into Carlisle.
Join us on an epic journey! 🚴♂️ We embarked on a 1200-mile End to End Team Cycle Challenge across the stunning British Isles. But that ride was about more than just the miles. We were on a mission to tackle lung cancer head-on, especially in non-smokers. Every pedal stroke counted as we raised awareness and vital funds for charities fighting this disease.
Did you know that passive smoking and air pollution are significant risk factors for lung cancer? We weren’t just riding; we were shedding light on local air quality levels by monitoring as we went.
This ride was personal. We honored the memory of our beloved friend, Ruth Strauss, who tragically lost her battle with lung cancer at just 46.
But we weren’t in it alone. We rallied families, friends, and communities to join us. Our goal? To recruit 250+ riders for relay sections and raise £250,000 for The Ruth Strauss Foundation, Alk + Lung Cancer UK, and Friends of the Earth Clean Air Campaign.
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I want to ride oh my God it’s day 12 12 that means that today we actually ride into Scotland 100 miles can’t say I’m feeling particularly optimistic today make braces knee braces but hopefully I’ll be raced together and we will see at the other end I don’t know
Whether you can see but our start route is in a field full of sheep um hopefully um g in how’s this right we’ve walked across the field for about 3 miles so bad root planning how on wobbly foot Bridge no I’ve got left alen I’ve got right on our way to
Car looking forward to the rad to no and even though it’s a tin ride I just don’t feel terribly confident we’re in carile we’re in car it’s actually a bit of Dum it’s really lot ofy City Joe going up the hill we never went past a sign that said
Welcome to Carina it’s bit dis maybe they don’t welcome you yeah I have two hot chocolates can I have mine with cream and marshmallows please oh I’ll have the same as well we’ll have two with cream and marshmallows we just met a lovely couple the the older guy
Was um retired but his son is actually um a respiratory uh consultant in the area so we had a really good chat with them they’ve taken their details um and also because he’s a retired GP he knows a lot of GPS um in the area which is is really
Really good so Susan’s going to connect with him uh next year and hopefully we can get them involved I think how I’ve explained it to people is that that when I discovered you were coming through the area um it seemed that you were going through all this trouble for something
That directly involves me and I couldn’t not be part of it and this is who I am this is where I am now and this is important but it’s also something that’s been getting more and more evident is that this is happening to a lotss of people being involved in the
Forum has has shown me how many people there are out there you say it’s a rare cancer it affects a very few people these are all people though these are somebody’s husbands wives you know these are real people out here and there’s loads of them actually yeah but there’s
None here where I live and that doesn’t make sense they’re not being diagnosed I wasn’t correctly diagnosed initially right um I why do you think that was lack of Oncology Department in the local hospital they were getting um oncologists Newcastle to come over on a Saturday and work Saturdays over here
And you live in the Lake District yeah and you going to Newcastle I go to Newcastle now for scans and for everything so what you’re basically saying is the problem here in the north the north of England and then going into Scotland there are not so many diagnostic Centers or centers of
Excellence or even GPS or Consultants who would have met no positive G or any other R lung cancer my GP um local practice is fabulous but they’re learning from me so we need to reach more people yeah get better Diagnostics y by reaching more people get more people properly diagnosed so
That they can then have access to these wonderful drugs that you’re on which work which work which work and you know I’m still here fantastic fantastic thank you we live I’ve love spending time with we’ve actually cycled 1,000 miles already because we’ve gone around measuring uh pollution and visiting lung
Cancer patients we would have been there by now otherwise here we are Scotland Scotland for goodness sake can’t believe we actually are finally here pass in the border crossing the border for more details go to breathe forlife.com which links to our virgin money giving page