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Motivation for the Alps: Anger and Awareness
This blog centres on MS and cycling and it is a weird combination, I keep saying that. Too much has been about MS recently, though. I want to say something about cycling and why I am going to go mad in the Alps next month. I mean, a guy with MS cycling up mountains? How stupid is that? That has been said to me. The anger that follows helps motivate me, turning a negative to a positive. Increased awareness of others with MS also helps. No Escape The problem is that MS is going to have an impact. It feels like I have to mention it. It is there, every…
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The Englishman Who Rode a Bike in Belgium
I already posted that 2018 would be the year of just one challenge. It is something already very special for me, the whole experience of Liege-Bastogne-Liege. I don’t expect everyone to understand that, you just have to trust me on this one. It will be even more special because, like ‘Climb Against MS’ in 2016, it will be sponsored with the target to raise funds for MS Research and support with those who have been diagnosed with MS. For the latter, there are quite a few of us and we all need support in different ways. To be honest we could all do without the disease so that is where the research…