Football

tl;dr https://believe.in/fundraising/DavidKitchen/319

Last year I got hit by a bout of sciatica. It knocked me off the bike for months and had me squealing with pain. I only started riding again at the start of this summer. Even now, a 10 mile ride leaves me bruised by the end of it. This 200 mile ride is going to hurt a lot because of the sciatica, it will be a suffer fest for me no matter how much I train.

I'm terribly slack on keeping up with the exercises, stretches and rehab physio. So I noticed an event, and have committed to an unmoveable date, and am going to do a long ride (for someone who's barely been riding this last year).

The ride is Paris to London.

Which is obviously the wrong way, uphill, into the wind, and Paris is a nicer arrival point than the outer edges of London. Oh well.

Anyhow the ride is: https://techbikers.com/

And they're raising money to help build schools in far flung places such as Nepal. Because £50k builds a school there, and in the UK it would barely build a wall, in a library, and even then it wouldn't put the books on the shelves.

So I'm being sponsored, par for the course for these rides, and in this case my conscientiousness means that it guilts me into not quitting when the pain kicks in, and forces me to do that training.

**Every penny raised goes to charity, not a penny goes to admin or payment fees.

https://believe.in/fundraising/DavidKitchen/319**

A bit about the TechBikers group: It's basically a load of techies, geeks, entrepreneurs... the cream of the crop of the London startup scene. Between us we have something like 300k Twitter followers, and insane social media reach... so as you might imagine, you'll be hearing about the ride quite a bit, and because of http://microcosm.app/ I'm basically one of that lot and will be representing.

TechBikers is also surprising in that the vast majority of the riders I've spoken to are not cyclists. Actually, so far the majority don't even own a bike. So this is going to be damn amusing.

What that means is that we really would appreciate help from those working in the bike industry. We need nutrition on the road, we need helmets, hell we even need bikes.

If you're in the bike industry and can help in any way, please contact me: david@buro9.com

One final thing, I promised Clive that if I hit my target of £1k I'll put tags back on the football thread. At least until people screw it up again.

Many thanks, greatly appreciated, thanks for putting up with another "please sponsor me" things on here,

David

PS: You know, I've never actually done a sponsored thing before. First time for everything.

Actually, I'll tell you what... if I hit the target, then I'll give them [tags!!!] back for the time being, mostly to see whether you all fuck them up again.

Apologies if this is a repost...*

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