Week 4 of 24 Training and Fundraising Update
At the end of four weeks and I am just shy of reaching the first target of my fundraising goals. When I started this journey the fundraising was the part the scared me the most, but what a difference a few weeks makes. The people that have contributed and the stories I’ve heard have been incredible.
This week I received a $2,000 donation from someone that doesn’t know me and has never met me. I mentioned Nuri in last weeks post, who has his own very personal cancer story, and this week through his efforts, a close friend of his looked into the tour de cure message and thought it was such a great cause that he had to be a part of it, incredible. Thanks again Nuri.
I also started planning a cool fund raising initiative that will take place as part of the University of Sydney Union’s O-Week festival in February next year, which will be physically taxing but great fun. Stay tuned for more details soon.
Training this week was a little more difficult, mainly due to the weather. Wednesday morning was 8 degrees in the National Park, which isn’t normally an issue, it gets much cooler in winter, only problem, I wasn’t dressed for 8 degrees so the fingers were hard to feel for a while.
Today it was rain and a punishing headwind for the first two hours that was the problem. Thanks to my cycling buddy Owen Barnett (a 5 time TDC veteran) we managed to get in the 100km ride without too much rain. The worst of it was 2 minutes from home when a heavy shower completely drenched me and filled my shoes with water.
Just a short note to other TDC riders, don’t rely on Owen for weather predictions. Every time he mentioned it was clearing, it would rain within minutes 🙂
So a moderate week of training completed, 315kms in the bank and definitely starting to feel and see the improvements of the base building phase (thanks Jenny).
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