{"id":2964,"date":"2014-06-05T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2014-06-05T06:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T06:45:52","slug":"nightrider-london-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/05\/nightrider-london-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightrider London awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NightRider2\"<\/a>Three days from now, at dawn on Sunday, I should have just finished cycling 100km around London, raising money for JDRF. I truly can’t wait to do it particularly as I’m doing it as part of a team mainly consisting of my work colleagues.
\nWe start off from Crystal Palace at 10:35pm anti-clockwise through Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, Olympic Park, Alexandra Palace, Waterloo, Whitehall and The Mall before ending up back at Crystal Palace. <\/p>\n

A team grows<\/strong>
\nLast year I read about Nightrider shortly after cycling next to Gav in his GBR30\/30 challenge and it captured my imagination, so I decided to do it in 2014, probably by myself.
\nDiscussing it at work and Jon decided he’d do it as well, perhaps we could ask a couple of others he suggested. A few chats later and the team grew to 5 from work and Steve who lives close by. A month later and we’re up 8 cycling for JDRF and 3 cycling for CancerResearchUK. In total there’s 21 JDRF riders starting from Crystal Palace including my team plus Nick, Mark H, Andrew whom I know from either Twitter or the Cycling at JDRF Facebook group<\/a>. There’s also a lot of JDRF riders starting from Alexandra Palace about an hour later.<\/p>\n

\nA few of us enjoying a rest after a cycling sportive: Mark P, Kev, Jon, Mark H
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Raising funds<\/strong>
\nWe’re riding for JDRF and they’ve set a target for each person of \u00a3175 per person, on top of the \u00a339 registration we’ve each paid. For this \u00a3175 JDRF have bought a charity place from Nightrider for \u00a360 and on top give each cyclist a JDRF cycling jersey, which in itself must be worth \u00a335. So in theory JDRF don’t get much money in from this event, just \u00a380 per person if they reach their target.
\nA few days ago I was concerned we wouldn’t reach out target, it sat \u00a3400 short of our combined target of \u00a31400. In the last few days though sponsorship has come flooding in and we’re close to \u00a32000 already.
\nSponsorship page is here if you want to see how we’re doing…or donate.. bit.ly\/nightridertf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Training, training, training<\/strong>
\nFor some cycling 100km is easy but there’s only one of our team – Steve – who could boast this, with Shaun coming a close second, for the rest us it was going to take a fair bit of training. So off we set on our first training ride back in January, a mere 30km but a distance which seemed daunting at first. <\/p>\n

From our first training ride
Juli, Kev, Jon, Tim, Sue, Mark, Steve, Shaun\"NightriderTF-1\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Training rides got longer week by week, some hills got thrown in and the weather started improving. A few other friends\/colleagues started joining in the rides and a few of us managed to get out each weekend.<\/p>\n

\nA hilly ride around the South Downs
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We set a target for 60km on April 21st when many of us entered a local Sportive. Five of my team did it along with two other Nightriders, Nick (coming down from Derby) and Mark (coming from London), plus a friend Gemma. That turned out to be a great ride through lovely country roads and finishing with a nice BBQ afterwards. <\/p>\n

\nGemma, Kev, Juli, Jon, Mark P, Nick, Mark H, Sue
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\nOur first night ride last Friday
\nTim, Jon, Kev, Sue
\n\"Nightrider-TF-5\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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