Pedal to Paris
HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES staged an amazing 24-hour marathon event at Memorial Playing Field track to raise funds towards improved facilities at their circuit. Given a title of Pedal to Paris the target was to complete enough laps over the 24-hours to get to Paris – 381 miles. In the end there was at least one person on the track for the whole 24 hours and the club was overwhelmed by the support given by its members and their families, boosted by ex-members, the local Velo Club and a few from the community, so a total of 87 people did some laps!! Not only did we get to Paris but way beyond – 1307 miles to be exact!!
In total 26,152 laps were completed with Harley Hamill completing his 12-hour challenge – a total of 2345 laps, a figure matched by Nigel Longlands who only had set himself a 1000 lap challenge. Other 1000 lap challenges were met by Leigh Cossey and Paul Delaiche while Under-10 rider Louis Marling did a stunning 1410 laps – 70 miles!!
The key objective was to raise funds and it looks like, once all pledges have been called in, a sum of between £3000 and £4000 will have been raised. However, what the event did show is the tremendous family spirit within the Club with an age range of 4 to 83 taking part and there may be some new recruits from family members and the community. The event was also a major achievement for the fund-raising sub-committee, led by Russ Marling, which was only formed in February.
A huge number of delicious cakes were baked, sold and eaten and the winners of the games will be announced soon.
Please donate to https://gofund.me/d2db1265 and help us improve the facilities at our track.
Well done and thank you to everyone involved!
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