07/04/2008

Tim & Jon completed the gruelling DW canoe race in staggering time of 23 hours 40 minutes finishing 1ST in their category-full report attached

Huge congratulation to Tim & Jon-they certainly have set the bar pretty high for this years events!!

The London Marathon is only a week away with Jonesy & Phil making final preparation-welcome aboard to Hannah who is also running for O2e

Numbers still growing for Tuohy's Irish West Coast cycle in Sep-getting close to 70 riders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-Great effort Kev and wouldn't it be amazing to get the peleton up to 100 so if you know anyone pls advise soonest

07/09/2007 Update

Ant, Karen, Timbo & Simon 'beasted' The Three Peaks with over 2000 metres of ascent and covered more than 25 miles in distance in a very very impressive time of 11 hours & 15 mins.

Big thanks to Barry & DD for all their support and very well done to everybody.

We have our first O2e World Record!!
Massive congratulations to Jeremy and his two teams for organising & completing their mammoth hockey match.
Both teams played for a total of 26 hours & 22 mins!!!!!!- the early morning hours proving most challenging and the whole match played very competitively and at a mean pace. This is a great & creative challenge that took a huge amount of time & effort to organise so  many many congratulations to Jeremy, Skells & ALL involved.

Our third Channel Swim team made it three out of three for O2e yesterday.. Duncan, Norbert, Slatts, Roger, Kerri & Mick battled through a force 4 to complete their challenge in a very impressive 12 hours & 53 mins-all the team had to dig very deep, let's not forget Roger overcame major fears of open water, sharks etc etc not to mention the £35,000 he raised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extraordinary achievement.

On a fundraising theme another incredible effort came from Nigel Keen-Nigel injured himself before his London triathlon so could not take part and goes under the knife today-hope all goes well- but his sponsors still honoured their pledges and Nigel raised just under £10,000 which is another Extraordinary achievement-very well done & speedy recovery Nigel.

31/08/2007 Update

Unfortunately Nigel did not make the start line for his first Triathlon as he damaged his cartilage while training just a few days before. I know Nigel trained really hard for this event and is very disappointed to have missed out-knowing Nigel we will see him back soon.

Keith & Steve have conquered the Rockies!!!!
Let's not forget neither Keith or Steve were regular cyclists and foolishly entered one of the toughest off road races in the calendar with massive climbs and some 600km to the finish line. Last year they skied the famous Haute Route, this year spat out The Rockies, looking forward to a new & creative challenge for next year.

Huge effort & well done guys in your challenge and raising an incredible £20,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Senior Channel Swim

Next out is our 3rd Channel Swim Team who are waiting nervously for a break in the weather-let's make it 3 out of 3 and best of luck to Duncan, Norbert, Slatts, Roger, Kerri & Mick

14/07/2007 - Junior Channel Swim

Massive well done to all our 27 Junior Channel Swimmers who showed the adults how to do it!
We had a great day watching our little ones charging up & down the pool and lovely to see kids so involved in sport and helping other children

Once again many thanks to Claire and her Amida Team for all their support

13/07/2007 - Events Update

Parisian Walk:
Our Cycle Team 07/07/07 of Andy, Chris, Phil, Matt & Mark set off from Oxted with Fat Boys Tandem 'pimped' up and looking great. In less than 24 hours they arrived in 'Gay Paris' which is a phenomenal achievement-let's not forget these guys were not cyclists but certainly are now. Another outstanding achievement is 07/07/07 have raised just about £30,000  in sponsorship-quite simply EXTRAORDINARY!!!!!!!!!!!

Billy no mates Timbo has successfully completed the Gobi Desert Walk-don't have any details yet as Timbo is en route home but will update soonest-massive achievement Timbo you can now have your first drink of the year!!!

Channel Swims:
Team 1 comprising of Chris, Mike, Scott & Giles set off from Dover at 7.30 am on Monday & arrived some 12 hours 20 minutes in Calais!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing effort in rough conditions and an incredible time

Team 2 comprising of David, Jason, Slatts, Chris & Deborah set off from Dover at 8.00 am Tuesday & arrived 14 hours & 48 minutes later in Calais!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again amazing effort in some very challenging waters

Team 3 comprising of Duncan, Norbert, Slatts, Roger, Kerri & Mick are off next week-let's make it 3 out of 3-best of luck to all

Our Junior Channel Swimmers are attempting their mammoth challenge tomorrow with children from aged 4 swimming-we have 23 kids swimming 1 mile each and 4 kids making up the last mile between them-this is totally inspiring-good luck all

Ollie Rastall is off the weekend taking on the mountains over a 7 day gruelling mountain bike stage race called JEANTEX BIKE TRANSALP-very best of luck Ollie

 

15/03/2007 - Huge congratulations to Helen and Tim Miller

Helen and Tim completed the Paris Marathon on the weekend in spite of the scorching heat and limited amount of preparation time available to them. Helen sprinted across the line like a Gazelle in 4 hours 53 mins and Tim followed close behind in 5 hours 03 mins.The feat is made all the more remarkable by the fact that Tim suffered a double break and dislocated ankle some two years previous and his longest run prior to the event was a mere 9 miles !

Well done Tim and Helen.

22/04/2007 - London Marathon

Sarah Schofield, Jill Hopkins, Rob Hall and Steve Walter are competing this Sunday. The gaunlet is laid down at 4 hours 53 mins by our current record holder, Helen.