What do you do to mark the 10th anniversary of cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End? Why, you do it all again of course! Well, you do if you’re Graeme Bailey and Keith Aspinall from Business Micros.
The two were members of the very first GM Fundraising Team which rode the 975 miles in 2005 to raise money for the Hope House Children’s Hospice. Feeling nostalgic, they have just completed the very same feat again but this time with just their wives and their dogs for support.
Graeme said: “We’ve both ridden in all of the GM cycle challenges since 2005 – including the Hope 66, Coast to Coast and Rome to Home events and raised a huge amount for charity in the process. Before we hang up our spokes, we decided to set ourselves just one more challenge and chose the John O’Groats to Land’s End trip because it held such special memories.”
This time around Graeme and Keith completed the trip just for fun and even managed to take a day off their previous time reaching Land’s End in 12 days instead of the previous 13.
Keith said: “It was a great experience with our wives providing the support in their very own mini camper van and even our dogs coming along for the ride. Ten years on, it gave us a chance to relive some of the memories from the many GM Fundraising trips and reflect on all the adventures we’ve had along the way.”
