Joined: 29 Jan 2013
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Bike:
| Hi Joe,
You must obviously be a lot fitter and ambitious than I was, to undertake Malin to Mizen on a bicycle without support. A bunch of us - 6 cyclists and support van driver - undertook this relatively tough, 4-day exercise in August 2011 from Mizen Head to Malin Head, as a charity run for the IMNDA. The chosen direction and time of year was researched as being the most ideal with the south-westerly as our tail wind all the way up. My involvement was partly due to my desire to photograph the event and as a "last hurrah" of a fairly recumbent,cycling pastime. And boy, was I glad to have a support van on hand when during the burn periods. Managed to complete 400 kms of the full 630 km while sitting out the "off" road kms in the van, taking photographs of the other, souped-up bikies! But it was a memorable 4 days of my entire 60 years(50 of which were)in the saddle.
We raised in excess of €3000.00 for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
You can view the slideshow of this event here: MizMal Charity Cycle.WMV (file://RAE-PC/Users/Rae/Dropbox/Videos/MizMal%20Charity%20Cycle.WMV)
Wishing you fair weather in May.
Rae.
(raedcruz@yahoo.ie)
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