On Saturday March 3rd we will be descending on the Nuneaton Ropewalk along with Gerard, Turbo Trainer, Monty Bear and some lovely volunteer tin shakers.  So while I get busy cycling and burning LBS.....it would be great if you guys could shed some £'s!! haha!
It would be great to see you there so please come along and say helllloooooo :o)
We will have entry forms so if you make a donation please dont forget to have a guess at my Half Marathon / Full marathon finishing time!  Who knows, you could be a winner! :D

KERRRCHING!!!!
A good week on the fundraising front!  We raised a fantastic amount from the Rugby Clock Towers Event to add to the already growing total... So once thats been added we will be up to £1422.48!!  But we dont wanna stop there!!! OHHHHH NOOOOOOOO!!!!!  So c'mon people, shed a pound for a good cause and have a guess in my GUESS THE FINISHING TIME competition ;o)
Also HORESTON METALS in Nuneaton have very generously donated £250.00 to cover the cost of a Bike Bag to transport frisky Gerard (Butler haha!) from the UK to Geneva.  BIG THANKYOU GUYS xxx

The video has been edited and "special effected" by our very own Ian "tarantino" Kennedey and ready for public consumption!  A humerous insight into the preparation and training im putting into the Cycle Challenge.....and not forgetting the humiliation!!  Surely thats gotta be worth a £1.00 of anyones money??!!!?? lol!  I would be very grateful for you sharing the video with all your friends!

What a fantastic day we had at the Clocktowers shopping centre at Rugby.  THANKYOU to all the generous people who donated on the day and good luck to all of those who entered the Guess the Finishing TIme Competition!  We have quite a lot of guesses now :D
We had a great day and I think everyone enjoyed meeting Monty Bear.  I managed to cycle 5 hrs non-stop and it was worth the brilliant amount raised towards the charity challnege and ultimately the Nurse Appeal. :D 
The money will be paid into the JUSTGIVING Account by the end of this week so we will have a nice little boost to the total!

Well this week has been quite hilarious as we have decided to do a fundraising video to publicise the Bike Challenge.  My lovely friends Rachel and Ian along with my son spent the day taking pics, being extras and filming increasingly more random clips for the film!
First visit was the gym, moving onto the Village Cycle Centre closely followed by Coventry Myton Hospice.  After this our next port of call was Tesco's and then Steppey Lane for some hill climbing footage!  Finally we took some "domestic scenes" at home to finish off the whole debacle lol! Goodness knows what it will end up like as it is in the hands of Director and Chief Editor Mr. Kennedey! :p
Hopefully all will be complete ready for the first public event at the RUGBY CLOCKTOWERS SHOPPING CENTRE this Saturday - (18th February!)  Please come along if you are in the area and say HI!

The HALF MARATHON competition prizes are all confirmed now so when you make a donation and predict my finishing time the closest guess will win.......First Prize - closest time to the Official Chip time
The Rugby Lions have kindly donated 2 tickets to our Lunch With A Lion events , this consists of a 3 course sit down meal at our home games, with a guest speaker. Previous lunches we have enjoyed the company of Dean Richards, Tim Stimpson, John Bentley and many more, and our balcony makes for fantastic viewing of the game we consider the day as highly enjoyable experience.Runners up ie next closest guesses.....

Second Prize - Coventry Runner have kindly donated a voucher for a pair of NIKE Running shoes

Third Prize - Nuneaton Sports Injuries have kindly donated a FREE MASSAGE or INJURY CONSULTATION 
I cannot thank the companies enough who have donated these fantastic prizes ..... THANKYOU!!!So get GUESSING FOLKS!!  For all the details please see our competition page "GUESS THE FINISHING TIME"

I feel a bit like this right now!!  So much to do and already I feel like time is slipping away from me!! ARGH!  
BUT!!!  We have progress!  Today I set up 2 new events cycling on my bike / Turbo Trainer combo!  One in Rugby Clock Tower Shopping centre on 18th February and one in Coventry's West Orchards shopping centre on 21st April.  The last one is a bit of a worry as its the weekend before the marathon and really I should be easing up a bit.....but hey, if I just pedal slowly Ill be OK? RIGHT?!! lol!
I have had another generous Prize donation to the Guess the Finishing Time Competition from Nuneaton Sports Injuries of a professional Sports Massage!  Id quite like to win that myself HAH!
And although not quite finalised I have interested parties to fund my Bike Bag for transporting my bike to Geneva and some posh printed shirts!  More to come on all of this soon!
What can I say but.......BOING!!!!

As much as the training is important to get me up them mountain passes, Im under pressure this year to raise a minimum sponsorship amount and by a deadline of the beginning of May!  Right now this feels the more daunting of the two!
So I have set up my JUST GIVING PAGE, made a poster, set up a FACEBOOK PAGE and started putting the word about the challenge in the public domain.  I have also come up with some fairly madcap ideas for a couple of fundraising competitions which involves me running a half and a full marathon and you guys predict the closet time......winner gets a prize!  But I will do a specific BLOG about these events and how you can enter!
Technology has moved on even a year and you can now TEXT me a donation by texting TOIL99 and your donation (£1, £2, £5 or £10) and sending to 70070.  There are NO charges and you can gift aid the amount donated meaning even more money goes to Myton :D
And finally if you have an iPhone or Smart Phone you can SCAN the following QRCode and it takes you straight to my JUST GIVING page!  How fantastic is THAT!  

So far I have 5 donations directly to my Just Giving Page and one donation of admission tickets to HATTON WORLD for the "Guess the Finishing Time" Prizes!  THANKYOU EVEYONE!
So all in all a rather good start :D