Thank You

Many, many thanks to all the members of Ful-On Tri (the best Triathlon club in London!) for all their support - we are so grateful to you!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ful-On-Tri-Club/127446323983261

http://www.fulontri.com/

Many thanks to The John Breslin Show on Highland Radio for featuring our cycle on Thursday morning. It was a lovely piece - we have a recording of it and will post it shortly. Highland Radio has the highest market share of any local station in Ireland and is the most successful local radio station in Europe.

To all the relatives, friends and kind sponsors of our 15 brave cyclists, updates will be posted every day of the cycle both here and on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stjoesgaalondon.

We are so proud of our cyclists! Please keep the donations coming. We cannot underestimate how grateful we are for every penny or cent donated.

Time to get a couple of hours sleep before we meet at Ruislip at 8.30am! We’re all set!


’Mon the Joes!

Article in The Irish World, 31 March 2012

Supplies for Day 1!

Overwhelmed by People’s Kindness & Generosity

We’re just blown away by the support and comments that we’re getting. Here are just some examples of amazing support that we received today:

Hi Shane

Well done on undertaking such a great effort. I thought you might like to take a look at this www.stuartmangan.org website. I ran the marathon to raise funds for Stuart’s care back in 2009. Unfortunately, Stuart’s break was at C2 and he needed a ventilator and he died in Aug 09 following an infection due to the ventilator.

Although this was a very sad outcome for Stuart and his family, I thought the website might be helpful in terms of how the family move forward in raising funds etc. He was an amazing guy who really coped well with his new life circumstances considering what had happened and how active and full his life was before the accident. BBC3 made a programme about him and there is stuff linked into YouTube from the website.

There are also contact details there, which I am sure Brian or his family could use if they wanted to speak to people who have gone through this. The Mangans are a lovely family.

I am happy to pledge you £250 for your cycle.

Good luck and well done for doing such a great thing to help him.

Cheers

Hi Shane

Amazing.

£20 from me and any chocolates you want for the team. How about a couple box of Lindor filled eggs? I am assuming you have a support crew with you?

What an amazing thing to do for such a lovely cause.

Do you want coverage? I could try to get something in the British News Round up on Cycling Weekly website?

Micheal Harrington sent you $20.00 AUD

Good man Mick, you must have improved the fitness levels since your Edinburgh days.

Kenneth Frain sent you £50.00

Best of luck with the cycle. Extremely impressive goal and wish Brain all the best. I won’t be home in Ballagh for Easter but wish everyone a safe journey. Kenneth

€200 donated by Mark McNulty’s uncle, Conor McMenamin, to Mark & Shane.

Many thanks to everyone in Ballybofey & Stranorlar Golf Club for donating so generously this evening to Mark.

We have emails coming from Australia, New York, Kansas, Madrid, everywhere. People are amazing. Please keep the donations coming. Our cyclists are by no means ‘cyclists’; they are footballers first and foremost and are training hard for this very worthy cause. In order to take part, most of the cyclists are taking a week’s unpaid leave from work.

Thank you so very much.

Aaron Conlan

Any excuse to get the guns out!!

Aodhán Reaney

No 99s for Aodhán!

Micheal Hanily

‘Lance’ Hanily!!   

Sponsorship

A beautiful message that we received with a very generous donation via PayPal:

Wishing you all the best of luck with this great cycle. Ye guys should walk with your head held high after this. If I was at home in Roscommon for Easter there would be no doubt I would be there to support ye all and have a drink with ye. Mon ye all can do it.

Thank you so much; it is very much appreciated. Sponsorship can be made in person to any cyclist or via our dedicated PayPal account. If you already have a PayPal account, please login as usual, or set-up an account by following the screenshot below. Our email address is secretary.stjosephs.london@gaa.ie.

Mark McNulty’s Bike

The Final Itinerary

Sunday, April 1 2012:

0900	Leave County Pitch in Ruislip, London	30 miles
1200 (approx)	Break for Lunch
1600 (approx)	Arrive in Towchester, Northamptonshire	30 miles
Check into Towcester Silverstone Travelodge http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/info?hotelId=185

Monday, April 2 2012:

0900	Leave Towchester, Northamptonshire	34 miles
1300 (approx)	Break for Lunch
1600 (approx)	Arrive in Cannock	30 miles
Check into Roman Way Hotel, Cannock http://www.romanwayhotel.co.uk/

Tuesday, April 3 2012:

0900	Leave Cannock	32 miles
1300 (approx)	Break for Lunch
1600 (approx)	Arrive in Llangollen, Denbighshire	30 miles
Check into Llangollen Hostel http://www.llangollenhostel.co.uk/

Wednesday, April 4 2012:

0900	Leave Llangollen, Denbighshire	30 miles
1300 (approx)	Break for Lunch
1600 (approx)	Arrive in Caernarfon, Gwynedd	28 miles
Check into Caernarfon Travelodge http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/info?hotelId=392

Holy Thursday, April 5 2012:

0900	Leave Caernarfon, Gwynedd	30 miles
1230 (approx)	Arrive in Holyhead for 14:10 sailing
1600 (approx)	Arrive in Dublin
Cycle to and check into Hotel TBC

Good Friday, April 6 2012:

0900	Leave Dublin, Ireland	40 miles
1300 (approx)	Break for Lunch
1600 (approx)	Arrive in Longford	35 miles
Check into Hotel TBC

Easter Saturday, April 7 2012:

0900	Leave Longford, Ireland	38 miles
1300 - 1400 (approx)	Arrive in Ballaghadereen
Meet and Greet. Relax, get some food and get ready for Challenge Match at 5 or 6pm