tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59092708527306990382024-02-06T19:49:41.805-08:00The RNLI Tour of BritainA blog following the adventures of Nick and Rad who are cycling around every lifeboat station in the UK hoping to raise £70,000 for the RNLI. We are kindly sponsored by Knight Frank and Rackspace. Rad and Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511741411110193538noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909270852730699038.post-49571881861158047332016-07-29T01:28:00.000-07:002016-07-29T07:21:28.203-07:00Return Celebration<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">A little further along the coast we arrived at the Clapton RNLI station, for a quick photo, and water fill, and on we all went, now splitting into two Pelotons, to enable a few riders to push on...</span></div>
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A bit of a logistical glitch meant that our ferry across the river Colne wasn't in-fact running until the afternoon. The downside was that this would involve a 10km detour into Colchester to cross the river. The positive side however was that we got to cycle along the beautiful Colne estuary, and take in a quick lime soda to re-hydrate. </div>
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The penultimate Lifeboat station of the day was Burnham on Crouch- a great station overlooking a large harbor, with a very welcoming crew. We were given soft drinks and able to grab a quick update on the final competitive stage of the Tour De France (go Frome!) before getting back on the road to make our final ferry crossing of the trip.</div>
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While waiting for the ferry boat to arrive, Rad decided to go for a quick dip in the River Crouch, and spurred on by the group, upped his game in an attempt to do a forward flip.... This ended in disaster as the metal edging to the decked pontoon had come loose, and resulted in his feed getting stuck and cut/bruised as he ultimately did a enormous belly flop! Thankfully, the injuries were minor and were were able to plough on. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With only three days left of our trip, we woke this morning and for the first time in seven years had a very leisurely start! Bliss... We were not due to meet the Peloton who were coming to join us for the ride back to London until </span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9am</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, so we made the most of the fantastic breakfast at the Cliff Hotel (many thanks again to Panos for putting us up there).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">With Will Holland and the peloton cycling from Norwich (about 25 miles away), we met up shortly after <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9am</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at Gorleston RNLI, for a quick photo before getting on the road together. Now 8 cyclists in tops with another joining us </span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and two more on Sunday.... In addition we had the Craig and Archie (RNLI Crew from the Thames) in a support van, and Frank adding additional support. Quite a team! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our ride today took us south along the Norfolk and Suffolk coast lines, through some stunning countryside and beautiful villages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If there is such a thing as a perfect cycling conditions, this could have been it: Blue skies, sun, 10mph tail wind, 24 degrees, and gently undulating countryside trough beautiful farmland. </span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aldeburgh was our penultimate station of the day. The very welcoming crew gave us a tour of the station and boat (without doubt the most immaculate and highly polished we have seen to date- the 24 year old Mersey Class Offshore Lifeboat that looked cleaner than the day it was delivered!) The station was in a beautiful spot on the beach, and we all had a bit of a break before heading on.</span><br />
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Rad and Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511741411110193538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909270852730699038.post-8461709160948914582016-07-22T12:10:00.001-07:002016-07-22T16:05:35.166-07:00LEG 7 - DAY 4: Hunstanton - Great Yarmouth and Gorleston<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After two big days on the road, covering 375km in a heat wave, we thankfully had a cooler day today, with only a 130km ride to contend with, and in near perfect conditions. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The North coast of Norfolk was stunning (if not slightly hillier than expected!) and we churned through mile upon mile of rolling farmland, interspersed with beautiful villages and the occasional windmill. </span></span></span></div>
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Rad and Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511741411110193538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909270852730699038.post-86746294572850859282016-07-21T04:32:00.000-07:002016-07-21T04:56:52.472-07:00LEG 7 - DAY 3: Cleethorpes- Hunstanton<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/175679796" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe> <br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/175516349">RNLI TOUR OF BRITAIN - LEG 7 - DAY 2</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user41608760">Rad Hart-George</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we initially set off, neither Rad or I were married or had children but rather a lot has changed since then. Now, both with a wife and two children, it's fair to say that family pressures have changed somewhat. It is therefore with enormous thanks to our amazing wives that we embark on the final stage and leave them all behind yet again. This post is dedicated to Hannah and Harriet, who have made the whole expedition possible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the past six years of our expedition, we have had all weather conditions thrown at us - Gales, sleet, fog, torrential rain and even localised flooding. Setting off in a heat wave today was therefore something of a new challenge for us, but certainly a welcome one, with a week of driving rain on the west coast of Scotland still fresh in our minds! </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each year Rad and Nick take 10 days off work and away from our (growing) families, to cycle another leg of the journey - normally more than the distance required for a Land's End to John O'Groats cycle, such is the length of the British coastline. Start each leg from where they finished the previous year. <br />
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Leg 3 (2012) – From Newport around the entire Welsh coast, finishing in Chester, England.</div>
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In July 2016 they will embark on the final leg of the expedition, cycling south from Redcar, around the Humber and The Wash, and then further south, along the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts, returning via Essex to central London, from where they originally departed 7 years prior.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you may be aware, the RNLI is a charity that relies entirely on donations- it receives no government funding at all. Despite this, we treat it just like any other emergency service. In addition to this, the crews are almost all volunteers
who selflessly give up their time and personal safety, in order to help others who are in trouble at sea, on estuaries or inland during flooding. An utterly remarkable and selfless group of individuals. <br />
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<a href="http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=TheRNLItourofBritain&isTeam=true">Please click here for a link to our fundraising page</a>. Both Rad and Nick are very grateful for any amount of money
donated, all of which goes directly to the RNLI, helping them save lives at sea. You can be reassured that every penny donated goes to the RNLI - Rad and Nick fund the cost of their trip themselves. <br />
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We hope you enjoy their blog below, which covers each day of their expedition to date.</span></div>
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We woke this morning after another slightly broken night's sleep, and are definitely starting to feel the accumulative fatigue of our legs after four days on the road. A coffee seemed to hit the spot however, and after a quick pack up, we were on the road by 7.15am. The forecast for the day was set fair again- we are certainly appreciating the weather this year, after last year's relentless rain and gale force head winds....<br />
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Rad and Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511741411110193538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909270852730699038.post-335237303072814832015-04-14T03:51:00.000-07:002015-04-24T03:04:36.712-07:00RNLI Central London Committee Winter Lunch<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A rather belated post about the wonderful RNLI Central London Committee 'Winter Lunch' which happened on the 29th January 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Having found a pack of the most wonderfully awful 'Scottish' postcards, we wrote to all the stations that had kindly put us up this year. I'd like to thank them here again, it is great meeting you all and you are all first class ambassadors for the RNLI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, it is from Inverness, which tired legs, a sore bottom (from the saddle... honest!) and a great sense of pride that I say goodbye to all 4 people that read this blog. Thanks very much and we'll be back next year! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It would appear that with cycling there are a number of factors which greatly affect speed and therefore enjoyment. The first is weight, and we have certainly done all we can to keep our kit to an absolute minimum, including Rad's now standard cut in half toothbrush! The second is terrain- hilly or flat, gentle or steep gradients make a huge difference. The third road surface which varies enormously in this country and can render a ride very enjoyable or extremely uncomfortable and slow. The fourth is weather- wet and cold or sunny and hot- makes an vast difference: both psychologically and also physically, with the body expending a lot of energy just trying to stay warm when wet. The fifth and final one is wind speed and direction- even a slight headwind is similar to putting the brakes on constantly while a tail wind feels like someone pushing you along. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today we were blessed with sun, reasonable road surfaces and generally gently undulating countryside- all of which were enormously appreciated by us both, and for once on this trip, it was a very enjoyable experience cycling across Scotland. What we were less lucky with was the wind. While we were heading in a southerly direction along the East Coast, a strong Southerly / South-Easterly was blowing giving us an almost direct headwind for the first half of the day. Thankfully this then changed to an Easterly which made it a cross / cross-tail wind and life became a whole load easier for us both! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Along the way we stopped at a bakery and Rad kindly offered to help an old man change his flat tyre.... However Rad, it seemed, had no intention of actually helping, so pretended that he couldn't work the Jack. Guess who ended up doing it then...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After 9 hours and 45minutes of pedalling we arrived at Invergordon RNLI station. Kevin and a few of the crew kindly came down to welcome us, and very generously insisted on paying for our supper at the Marine Hotel in town. A huge thank you to you all from us both. </span></div>
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Rad and Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511741411110193538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909270852730699038.post-88754773625546895482014-06-06T18:00:00.000-07:002014-06-19T04:36:02.063-07:00Leg 5, Day 7,: Stromness to Kirkwall<iframe frameborder="0" height="548" src="http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/516947142" width="465"></iframe>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tempted not to leave at all, we forced ourselves out into the driving rain at 7.30am and hit the road. It was</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> immediately apparent how knackered our legs were following the previous day's ride- into the headwind and with no power progress was painfully slow.</span></div>
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