[Rendel Harris]

‘Tis the season for some folly…

Everyone, including some wonderful road.cc readers, was so generous last year in supporting our Christmas Day 200 mile lockdown ride in aid of Toilet Twinning, which raised enough funds for 24 facilities, I started thinking about what we might do if locked down again this Christmas…then I thought lockdown or not, why not? So from December 14th-23rd I shall be (virtually) riding “Monte Carlo or Bust”, the 1026 kilometres from our house in Peckham to Monte Carlo, ten metric centuries (and a little more) in ten days. If you’d like to support this amazing charity (and incidentally put me through a world of pain, surely worth the price of admission on its own?) in building facilities for some of the poorest two billion people in the world who have no access to clean, safe toilets, anything at all you can sponsor would be so massively appreciated and do so much good. Thank you! xxx

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/montecarloorbusttt

P.S. In the spirit of putting my money where my mouth is, I’ve put in the price of the first toilet myself, so I shall damned well make sure I do what I’ve paid for!
 

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[Rendel Harris]

Merci beaucoup mon brave!

Merci beaucoup mon brave!

[jaymack]

à donf!

à donf!

[Rendel Harris]

Many thanks and will do!

Many thanks and will do!

[stomec]

Good luck keep us posted!

Good luck keep us posted!

[Rendel Harris]

 Good idea – trollsters, I’ll

 Good idea – trollsters, I’ll definitely be flagging come day 5 so if you could be really annoying around the 19th I could do with the adrenaline boost… 

[chrisonabike]

Rendel Harris wrote:

Gave the legs a test today, not too bad though ten days in a row will take some doing (for me, I know there will be some on here who think 100km a day is nothing but they’re probably not 53!), as much on the mental as physical side; 3.5 hours on the trainer can get pretty dull. Spotify and podcasts of In Our Time will play a crucial role!

Definitely a mental challenge! Multi-day things are different.

You could always pop on here from time to time and re-read some of your classic ding-dongs with certain posters to give you an anger energy boost if flagging. Maybe you could even invite them along? Some of them have posted their figures so they should be able to keep up…

[Rendel Harris]

Gave the legs a test today,

Gave the legs a test today, not too bad though ten days in a row will take some doing (for me, I know there will be some on here who think 100km a day is nothing but they’re probably not 53!), as much on the mental as physical side; 3.5 hours on the trainer can get pretty dull. Spotify and podcasts of In Our Time will play a crucial role!

[Rendel Harris]

Two really generous donations

Two really generous donations from road.cc readers already, thank you so much guys (not naming in case you don’t want to be identified but you know who you are!). On £280 aready after 12 hours so looking very promising, that’s nearly five facilities already.

[chrisonabike]

Good challenge! It’s an

Good challenge! It’s an important and often overlooked cause too. As is wittily written (in Rose George’s “The Big Necessity” – a good stocking-filler) charities can get celebrities to front campaigns to provide safe water – but not so much on keeping excrement out of the water, a major cause of disease. To be fair WaterAid is much more explicit about that now. If interested check out the World Toilet Organisation (WTO…) too.

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