The 10,000k challenge is the first ever attempt to cycle the 10,000 kilometres from the Welsh capital, Cardiff, to the Turkish capital, Istanbul (and back!) and in so doing raise £10,000 for two Welsh charities.

10000k Challenge Blog

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?2005m up at the Simplon pass. It was a 25km unrelenting climb from the Swiss side, pure effort for 2 & a half hours. Then froze on the downhill run into Italy where at my campsite by Lago di Mergozzo it is now 27 degrees! Will sleep well tonite! x

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New Target!

As we have already reached the £10,000 target we have decided to really go for it and try to make £10,000 each for Ty Hafan and Velindre.  We will need your help if we are to get to the new £20,000 target.  Any fundraising ideas? – let us know if you have a good one! [...]

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Breaking News!

We have smashed through the £10000 target! Fantastic news and many thanks to all who have helped to achieve this. Keep the donations coming!

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Starting April 20!!

Wow – its come around so (too!) quickly. Can’t believe it starts next week with a launch event at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay at 9.30 on Friday April 20th … do come along to wave me off! We’re currently on around £8,000 out of our £10,000 target so we’re all really delighted with how [...]

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Feb 17

…can’t quite believe its just 8 weeks next Friday and I’m off. After all of the work fundraising (endless), planning (quite a bit) and training (starting soon) it’ll be too late for anything and I’m going to have to be as resourceful as I’ve ever been. All of the great people at the National Assembly [...]

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End of January

Less than three months to go to ‘Le Grand Depart’ on April 20! Good news is that we’ve over 300 Facebook followers, 100 Twitter followers and we’ve raised almost £5,000! Bad news is I haven’t exactly started training yet! Eddie Izzard in running around the UK though built up to a marathon every day after [...]

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2012

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Sunday November 6 2011

Just 5 months to go now but, amazingly, we’ve managed to raise £3,000 already.Many thanks again to our donators, helpers and also to our corporate sponsors – Spontaneous Web Design, Hapus Ice Cream and Axis Leasing. The main fundraising events we’ve now got in November is our Charity Pub Quiz on Thursday 24th in Cardiff [...]

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Sunday November 6

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