After a week of deliberating we've recruited three more mentalists on the bike ride. Rich Smith, Elaine Minty and Scott Clark will be joining us on the bike ride and in raising money for Zoe's Place. Hopefully they will be members of the blog shortly so they can fill you in on how we suckered them into get involved!
Rich is a fitness/gym/health freak so he's brining some really valuable contributions to the team with nutritional and fitness plans and suggestions. Elaine, Rich's fiancée, is bringing a great level of determination and level headedness to the team - something we need in bucket loads! Elaine is a marathon and half marathon runner and has recently joined a triathlon club. Scott is another marathon runner and all round mentalist! Scott is bringing brains to the team with his insanely detailed spreadsheets and training charts.
We met for the first time tonight as a team, minus Sue and Rich as they were teaching one of there many taekwondo classes. When we first started to talk about the idea there were some '50/50s', 'might do half of it' and some 'whoops Mrs Miggins you're sitting on my artichokes' bantered around. After a cup of coffee and some of Rich and Elaine's french fancies and chocolate cookies I managed to reel them in and the rest as they say is history! They didn't need much persuading though given that Elaine had already put in for her annual leave!
Due to the influx in team members, we've changed our name to 'Alfie's Team'. We thought it would be a good way to remind people about why we are attempting this challenge.
There is plenty more to update you on but I think this is enough for tonight. Keep checking the blog though and thank you to everyone who has sponsored us so far. We're now at 6% of our target!
If you wish to sponsor us then just visit www.justgiving.com/helenandrich Although, the team has grown we have used this site on our merchandise so if you are supporting either Rich, Elaine or Scott don't be put off by the name!
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