Cycling for the Pace Centre Guy Stapleford cycled 140km every day in the month of March, alongside his full-time job. Guy, who works for a local Housing Association, covered 4,200km over the course of the month to raise awareness and money for the Pace Centre in Aylesbury. It’s a simple challenge that Guy hopes will celebrate the 140 children born every month with cerebal palsy in the UK. The rules are simple in that he must ride the full 140km every day, nothing can be rolled over, either on the road or on the turbo trainer. Finding the time to cycle is often the biggest part of the challenge, “I’m trying to keep to a routine, getting up a 4am to start riding at 4.30am and riding 60-80km before work.” Whatever distance is left over, he has to
complete after he finishes work in the evening. With the COVID restrictions and early starts this means Guy finds himself riding almost all of the distance on his own.
Pace is a school in Aylesbury, Bucks, dedicated to transforming the lives of children up to the age of 18 with motor disorders such as cerebral palsy. The charity is founded on the belief that every child has the ability to learn Guy is no stranger to suffering on the bike, he and make progress, whatever physical or is using this challenge as part of his training sensory challenges they face. for the world’s toughest bicycle race – the 3,000 mile Race Across America, for which “Every day these kids find the strength to he has qualified to race as a soloist next do things that we find so easy and take for June. No British rider has ever won the race granted, like simply getting out of the house and only a small handful of Brits have ever in the morning. For them that can be a huge entered, let alone finished. “This challenge challenge.” 1,700 children are born with is great preparation, both physically and cerebral palsy every year in the UK; that’s mentally, as it highlights the importance of 140 children every month. “I wanted to do being consistent, disciplined and learning something that celebrated these children, to ride through the discomfort. I’m not the their parents & carers and the amazing support best cyclist in the world, I’m not suggesting that Pace provide, so I decided to ride 140km I can win RAAM, but I’m getting pretty good every day to represent those 140 children.” at suffering well.” Guy aims to raise a minimum of £1,400 for Guy has always wanted his suffering to mean Pace through this challenge. If you'd like something, to make a difference and that’s to find out more about the challenge and why he is supporting a Charity within his donate, visit his site at www.milesforwishes. community. com/pace140/
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