My Activity Tracking
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My target 500 mi
Please support my Ambitious Challenge!
I will be cycling 220 miles in a single day on Sunday 22 June 2025. Starting in Manchester and finishing in London, I'll be leaving my limits behind to raise vital funds for Ambitious about Autism.
Ambitious about Autism is the national charity standing with autisitc children and young people. They champion rights, campaign for change and create opportunities for autistic young people and their families.
My Achievements
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Added a profile pic
Added a blog post
Received 10 donations
25% fundraising target
50% fundraising target
Fundraising target reached
50% distance target reached
Challenge complete!
My Updates
Seven Sleeps to go!
Sunday 15th Jun
Seven sleeps to go and at this time next week I will hopefully have passed the 4th feed stop, (tomato soup pls), and will be well on my way into the North London suburbs. The work is all in the legs now, a blast down the Suffolk coast on Friday was my last outing until next Sunday. It’s sleep, stretching, and plenty of water until the first pedal stroke at 5.03am on Sunday next week!
I’ll mail a tracker link on Saturday night, look me up on the road!
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Alps D'Huez and Ventoux
Sunday 8th Jun
Day 2, and the balcony road might as well have been chipped out of the cliff face with so few cars braving the narrow shelf and foot high wall, or no wall at all, to a 1000 foot drop below, this is cycling mecca. Only bettered by submerging my head an ice cold drinking fountain in the final hamlet, before climbing gravel tracks through scree to the peak.
Last and by no means least, we transferred to Ventoux and with my train leaving the next day early I had to decide; discount sleep, or leave the mountain unconquered. And if you don't do the climb you can't wear the shirt! My 3am alarm extinguished, off we went in the blackness for 32kms and 1800m. Sunrise came and went around Chalet Reynard and the last 300m beckoned, taking us above the tree line to the bald mountain in the wind.
Finally with a jumper and gloves installed, the descent is all a rush, scanning the road the mind focuses on every tiny bump as 50/60/70km/h go by. Corners are simply walls or steps into nothing, cars can't keep up. Every cyclist you meet waves as they toil to the summit, gravity pulls you relentlessly down. 40mins later back in the valley the villages are waking up and the weather station is a speck on the skyline. There are three climbs and descents on Ventoux two wait for me next time....
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Off to the Alps, 23 days to go!
Friday 30th May
Thank you to my Sponsors
£1.5k
Bonaccord Capital Partners
£540
Anonymous
So great you’re doing this 👏👏
£500
Martin And Tina Hughes
£500
Michael Dorrell
£500
Anonymous
#JustKeepRiding - JSM
£360
Anonymous
£250
Johannes Kaps
Best of luck!!!
£250
Mike Eakins
Amazing effort James - well done!!
£250
Theo Osborne - 9yards
£225
Mitchell Green
£220
Nicholas Woolven
En y Va!
£200
Louis Lavoie
Good cause. Impressive challenge. All the best Louis
£200
Conor
Best of luck James!
£200
Haakon Overli
Keep attacking! Hope to see you soon.
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James Kennedy
Ride strong James, hope you get to enjoy it
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Randy Brown
Good luck James! You are a good man riding hard for a good cause!
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Mimi Ferrini
All the best with your cycle James.
£100
Alexis Zervoglos
Good luck James
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Richard Glenn
£100
Gordon J
Great stuff James. Hope it goes well.
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Quentin Zentner
Well done James- great cause.
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Tim H
Best of luck James. Sounds like a great cause.
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John Lister
Great Challenge for a great cause. Best of luck James
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Andrew Elder
Great effort James and a very worthy cause - all the best for the day
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Brent Williams
Great work James
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David Prior
£100
Emma Freud
What a feat! Huge congrats on undertaking this. Good luck with every mile. Emma and Richard
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James Lumb
Go James! All the best for tomorrow.
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Josh Conran
Good Luck James - great effort and cause! Best, Josh
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David Longbottom
Difficult terrain ! Great Cause Best Wishes
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Pat Sanderson
Not the same as slogging to Paris with you! Go well my friend!
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Alex Hoctor-duncan
Best of luck and weather
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Rob Povey
Go well and good luck
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Liya Ares
Best of luck James! May you escape any tree pollen on this route :)
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James Mitchell
£100
Brett Lousararian
Good luck James!
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Ian Craston
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Sarah Aitken
Brilliant effort …
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Paddy Shuttleworth
Awesome training ride! Bon courage!
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Thomas Lowton
Chapeau!
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Nick Barnes
A great cause and a mighty challenge - good luck!
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Anonymous
£100
Dennis Pellerito
Great challenge and for an awesome cause. Good luck
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Robert Evans
Best of luck champ, rooting for you. An amazing challenge to take on
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Will Hutton
Congratulations - very moved by your commitment to addressing autism
£100
Giri Singh
Wishing you the very best James! But given you've conquered the Alps, this should be a toddle...
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Alexis Dormandy
V impressed, on number of levels
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Greg Smith
Congratulations on a fantastic achievement!
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Jim Pattison
£100
Lawrence Hawkins
Well done James. Good luck
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Mike Walsh
Best of luck James
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Ol
Allez, Allez! God speed, and keep on pedaling.
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Julia
Best of Luck James!
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Kyrylo Sukhanenko
Good luck James!
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Cyril
Sweat, tears and blood: you’ve got this mitchja. Mont Ventoux was just a taster… Bonne Chance !
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Mike A
Hit it James. All in a day’s work for you!
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Ian Warford
Best of luck James!
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James Wright
Well done James
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Paul Heselden
All the very best James. Amazing effort and cause.
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Kunal Sood
Keep up the good work James. You are now officially obligated to send a daily blog!
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Mike Seery
Well done James
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Andrea Hajdu-howe
Fantastic cause and amazing effort James! Go go go!
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Connar Mcbain
£50
Cognomie
Good luck, James. Great cause and hats off to to you for taking it on in this heat.
£50
Pete Burtonshaw
£50
Olivier Malpuech
Best of luck James
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Isabel Katherine Ungless
£50
Renewity Capital Limited
Wow; best of luck. Happy to support a cause close to my heart and family. Best of bloody luck. Looks like a hard long shift.
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Alex Millar
Well done James, best of luck!
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Tommy Canty
Great effort James. If they done lycra waistcoats - I would join you. Look forward to catching up soon. TC
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Nick Tickner
Good luck with the last few weeks of training, and hope it goes well on the day!
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Wendy Mayall
Good luck James - a great cause!!
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William Meers
A massive achievement - well done!
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Kim Van Oers
Hope all goes well James. You've got this.
£50
Arabella Townshend
Good luck James! Fantastic cause, I'll keep my fingers crossed for good weather and no wind!
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Nick Spencer
Best of luck James - enjoy all those thousands of calories you'll need to consume!
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Kim Crabtree
Wishing you all the best James! Enjoy the ride
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Matt Brock
Best of luck James!
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Sam Tufts
£50
Tom Peberdy
Just keep those pedals turning. Good luck James, incredible commitment to be taking on this challenge again!
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Michela Bariletti
go James! we will follow the journey!
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Niamh Brown
Best of luck James!
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Daniel Browne
Excellent cause - good luck!
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Richard Roberts
Good luck James - great stuff and great cause
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Alex Hodgkins
Glad to see the cycling challenges are still going strong. Good luck James!
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Jane Gregson
Another amazing challenge! Hope the day and the fundraising go really well.
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Kunal Govindia
Good luck and hope you avoid the famous Manchester rain!
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James Marsden
Best of luck James! Great cause and steely determination from you as always!
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Will Rowley
Great effort James, inspiring stuff.
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Simona
You are nuts but what an amazing cause!! Well done James!!!
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Kit
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Jonathan Campbell
This will be a monster effort!! Best of luck James!
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Alasdair Kinloch
Best of luck James! A big shift for a great cause
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Pete D
Good luck!
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Yvonne Collins
Fantastic cause, all the best James, you'll smash it I'm sure!
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James Bradbury
Good Luck James, I cause very close to my heart! JB
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Paul Axten
Good Luck great cause
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Ian
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Diarmaid O'sullivan
Good luck James, this is for a great cause.
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Lucas Serafini
Good luck !
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Fiona
Good Luck!
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Sara Chance
Impressive effort for a worthy cause!
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Thomas Hill
All the best!
