The End to End Challenge - Become an End to Ender! Travel from Land's End to John
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Saturday 31st July 2010
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2010 Award Winners
The annual Club Awards Presentation took place on 19th June 2010
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Memories of one End to End 27-09-09 to 10-10-09 by Steven Fort
I always thought of myself as fairly fit having been quite sporty for most of my life. However, as middle age came and went
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Sport Relief Million Pound Cycle Ride
On Thursday March 4th a group of celebrities arrived at Land’s End after completing a gruelling 1,000 mile cycle challenge.
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Award category A runner up John Trafford due to the drugs he has to take, but fortunately; he recovered and completed his journey from John O’ Groats to Land’s End in just 38 days.
The start of his journey was already delayed following his participation in the British Transplant Games earlier that month; John had a kidney transplant in ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category A runner up Jane Allen As a member of the Royal Naval Reserves she had been mobilised from her civilian job as an IT project manager. She had seen Baghdad in the darkest and bloodiest months and during her operational leave in early 2007 had time to reflect. It had always been an ambition of Jane’s, who is from Ashburton ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category A applicants Roy & Judith Evison That was not the case for retired husband and wife team Dr Roy and Judith Evison from Chorley in Lancashire, who were to attempt an unusual style of travel with their journey.
Roy had already decided on running the length of the country to raise money and promote awareness for Cancer following the ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category B applicant Phillip Grant  Denise who won an award in category D. Please see details of Phillip's journey in Denise's story. ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category B runner up Bob Paterson who was tragically killed at age 13 in a car accident whilst on holiday with his mum and brother in Italy in 2005. Bob feels Dale could have been saved had he been wearing his seat belt correctly.
Bob and his colleagues from Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service wanted to turn this tragedy into doin ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category B Runner up Robert Wall to mark his 50th Birthday and to raise money for Hillside School in Brighton where he is the headmaster.
The school is for children with severe learning difficulties and Robert was able to raise £4,000 for them.
Robert was “foolishly” joined by his brother on the ride and their wives provided the ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category B applicant Clarice Correia & Elizabeth Emberton in July and August 2008.
They were surprised by the hilly terrain in Cornwall at the beginning of the ride but none the less enjoyed the scenery as they went.
There were a few technical hold ups, with bike issues and lie-ins but progress was steady with Clarice’s parents, grandmother and friends s ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category B applicant David Woodhead He had previously never cycled more than 20 miles in a day and the first time he sat on a road bike was at the start line at Land’s End on 20th September 2008.
He encountered sun, rain and hail and several punctures but arrived at John O’ Groats 14 days later.
David, from Guiseley in Leeds, admitt ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award Category B Applicant Les Harrison decided to attempt the solo end-to-end as a “last fling to his life on a bike”.
Prior to the start he had not ridden more than 50 miles in a single day for many years, yet when he averaged 80 miles a day and finished his journey in just 13 days carrying all his supplies with him, Les was well with ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award Category B applicant Peter Clare on the 10th October 2008 after setting off 14 days and 960 miles earlier from Land’s End.
With his wife as his only means of support, Peter, who is 66, raised £1,561.08 for The ITP Support Association.
This is a UK registered charity which aims to promote and improve the general welfare of patien ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category B applicants Stephen & Richard Taylor were pleased to report their ride went very successfully with out any breakdowns or mechanical failures.
Stephen’s wife Rosemary drove the car for support, and to make it easier for her as she was only used to driving locally, their route avoided any large towns or cities.
Without satellite naviga ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Category Award B applicant The Lycra Lads went by the group name of “The Lycra Lads” for their north-south ride in August 2008.
The start was good, in fine sunshine and aided by a tail wind, though they soon encountered a stiff southerly wind. Then they almost picked up another team member when a stowaway cat hopped into Jacquie’s car fro ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Category C runner up Nigel Davies and started their charity motor cycle ride at John O’ Groats with several days of fine weather.
Nigel, who was joined by Mark Ridgway on his bike and Richie Ireland and Nick Benes who followed in the support vehicle, went slightly off-the-beaten-track as they wanted to incorporate the most Easterl ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award Category C runner up Patrick Jordan He was having difficulty sticking to the speed limits on his mega-fast Honda Fireblade so for his end-to-end and back journey, he opted for the “slowest thing in the shop”.
This turned out to be a big cruiser of a bike, a Yamaha Midnight Star 1300, which was a significantly heavier machine but one ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category D runner up Adrian Hall He and his wife Alison, who are from Derby, drove their 1959 Ford Anglia north in just 6 days enjoying some of their favourite places of interest along the way. Fellow enthusiasts Nigel and Stella Scott followed in convoy in their own Anglia.
The journey was very nearly one that was over before it ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Award category E applicant Patrick Cox He was in fact standing proud in a costume that was supposed to be a giant testicle! The Mr Testicles character was devised to spread awareness of men’s health issues and Patrick, from Malvern in Worcestershire, did the job of hitch-hiking the length of the country wearing the 7 foot mascot costume. ...Updated: 26th July 2010 Read More.. |
Category B award winner – Geoffrey Lloyd Geoffrey Lloyd cycled from Land’s End to John O’ Groats with the view of raising funds to extend a home for respite care of seriously ill and disabled children.
His work was a success as the new building in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire was opened by Dame Norma Major in September 2008.
He completed t ...Updated: 19th March 2010 Read More.. |
Category D award winner – Denise Grant Denise Grant was able to visit museums, castles, cafés and shops while she waited for husband Phillip to complete his daily ride on his end-to-end journey.
Their trip was essentially a holiday, and was designed to keep them both happy.
She likes car holidays so agreed to drive the car while Philli ...Updated: 19th March 2010 Read More.. |
Category E award winner – Frank Brzeski Frank Brzeski organised a very unorthodox end to end in August 2008 that saw 14 riders on vintage autocycles and cyclomotors complete the journey at John O’Groats.
The riders were all members of the National Autocycle and Cyclomotor club, and drove machines that have engines ranging from 49cc to 98 ...Updated: 19th March 2010 Read More.. |
Category C award winner – Stuart Morrissey Stuart Morrissey’s journey was not a straightforward end to end. Starting and finishing in his home town of Plymouth, he decided to ride his 125cc motorcycle around the UK in 12 days. A veteran of unusual motorcycle journeys and going by the pseudonym “Madrider 1961”, Stuart encountered a lot of wet ...Updated: 19th March 2010 Read More.. |
Category A award winner - Sally Wren Sally Wren’s epic journey was a tremendous feat that began when she found herself a four-legged friend! Unfortunately, due to Mac the dog’s lively antics, Sally from Grindleford, Derbyshire, found herself having to move out of her home and back living with her parents. Feeling at a loss, she decided ...Updated: 19th March 2010 Read More.. |
Tuc-Tuc Travels First of all he did it a Tuc-Tuc which is an Indian Rickshaw and has a maximum speed of 33mph secondly Steve did not do a straight bottom to top run, but instead did it the wrong way around Scotland to Cornwall. But with this twist…. he stopped at as many Air Ambulance bases as he could along the wa ...Updated: 22nd October 2008 Read More.. |
Magnificent 7 Brian Lambton started his End to End trip on 1st July 2006, only this was to be no normal end to end, Brian was going to do the trip seven times back to back using seven different modes of transport. The seven different forms of transport that Brian chose to use were airplane, train, bus, car, motor ...Updated: 28th July 2008 Read More.. |
Free Country Lejog Does kindness amongst strangers still exist today?
That’s the question that George Mahood and Ben Cocks set out to answer when they started their unusual End to End journey.
George and Ben left Land’s End on 2nd September 2006 in just their Union Jack boxer shorts; from there they had to rely ...Updated: 28th July 2008 Read More.. |
George's Big Adventure Last August George set out on the adventure of a life time, and officially became the smallest member of the End to End Cub.
You see George is no normal End to Ender, George is a rat! In fact he is 12 year old Daniel Flint’s pet rat, and along with Daniel and his parents Jane and Greg, George tr ...Updated: 28th July 2008 Read More.. |
Board Free Dave Cornthwaite is the only know person to have skateboarded from John O’Groats to Land’s End. For David this 896 mile trip was a warm for his 3640 mile trip across Australia journey, which he has now completed.
Dave started his journey on 30th April 2006 and completed his trip on 2nd June 2006 ...Updated: 28th July 2008 Read More.. |
Ron's Tractor Chug In June 2006 Ron Moyse from Bow, Crediton entered the Guinness Book of Records for being the oldest person to drive from John O’Groats to Land’s End on a tractor at the age of 73.
The inspiration for Ron’s journey came from his friend Bobby Pellow, who had died earlier that year after an 8 year b ...Updated: 16th June 2008 Read More.. |
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