London to Paris Cycle Challenge 2010 - Mark does it again

Yes, Mark has completed this extremely challenging bike ride for the third time in three years. And what's more, he raised £3000 for GTF in the process. We hope to bring you more details of the ride from Mark soon but in the meantime - well done!   

The EDF Birmingham Half Marathon October 2009

They did it!

 

Team GTF – including six of the AVN team – completed the Birmingham Half Marathon on 11^th October and raised more than £700 for leukaemia research. It wasn’t easy but all the training paid off and everyone crossed the finishing line in one piece.

The times were:

 

Mark Wickersham – 1hr 31mins; Paul Flynn – 2hrs; Tracy Bettley - 2hrs 44 mins; Rachel Clark - 2hrs 44mins; Paul Herrett - 3hrs 1min; Ian Patterson – 3hrs 2mins.  

 

Tracy commented: “8 weeks of training covering 94 miles and it was all worth it when I crossed the finishing line. I am so proud of myself for taking part and to get a time of 2hrs 44mins in just amazing. If you are wondering, I will not be doing another one, I am more a 10k runner: it just took a 13.1 mile race to find that out!”

 

Special mention too for Jonathan Holroyd who was unable to run in the half marathon but rowed the same distance on his rowing machine instead and raised £555.00 in the process - a fantastic achievement.

 

You can still make donations at www.justgiving.co.uk/addedvaluesolutions  

 

The AVN team runners with their medals

Mark once again joined the Geoff Thomas team for this testing bike ride - London to Paris (515km) in 3 days. See more details and pictures from Mark here and watch out for him in this video clip. Well done to the whole team for completing the ride and for raising more funds for the GTF.