We are just weeks away from our London to Amsterdam bike ride.
After many months of training and preparation we are edging closer to our big event. We’d really appreciate it if you would be able to help us and the Great Ormond Street hospital by sponsoring us – any amount will help.
A big thank you to all of those who have already been kind enough to sponsor us. Your generosity is very much appreciated and will really help us to endure over 30 hours of cycling to complete our trip.
During our first meet-up as a team last week, we all spoke about getting custom made cycling jerseys made – so that we all matched as a team. It was during that conversation that we decided to be a little different and all go for different colours, but the same style.
Also, as custom made jerseys we’re looking for be too expensive and not really worth the money for just a few days cycling, so we settled for purchasing standard made tops and Decathlon was by far the best place to get them.
Below is a list of each members of the team and the colours that they have chosen to wear – click on the colours and be taken to the Decathlon website to purchase the cycle jerseys online:
The Team page has now been updated with the above team colours.
We are pleased to say that we now have a chosen team charity whom we will be raising valuable funds for on our London to Amsterdam Bike Ride 2010:
We will be raising money to enable Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide world-class care for its young patients and their families and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illness by:
1. Contributing to the rebuilding and refurbishment of the hospital
2. Funding the most up-to-date equipment
3. Supporting research into, and development of, breakthrough treatments
4. Providing accommodation and other support services for children and their families
Find out more about why Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity needs our help.
Details of how to sponsor us will follow shortly.
I am pleased to have published the training plan for the London to Amsterdam bike ride.
I spent quite a bit of time in preparation for last years bike ride, reading through a few recommended long distance cycle books as well as cycling forums etc and came up with a basic training guide which I personally found to be of great help. I have adapted this to increase the training period to meet this years Amsterdam cycle ride timeline.
It is meant to serve as a rough guide to help stay focused for the task ahead. I have not included any information on the intensity of training or speed, just time and distance. Please feel free to add suggestions on this.
I hope that it is of assistance to you in your own individual training: London to Amsterdam Training Plan.
As some of you may know, I work in the travel business so I have put my skills to best practice and had a quick look at hotel options and costs for the London to Amsterdam bike ride. Please see below the suggestions and rough quotes.
(1). Dover – Premier Inn (Eastern Ferry Terminal) – £ 69.00 per Twin Room/Double And Includes Taxes
(2). Brugge – Apollo Arthotel – EUR 79.00 per Twin Room/Double And Includes Taxes
(3). Antwerp – Hotel Antwerp Billard Palace – EUR 59.00 Per Twin Room/Double And Includes Taxes
(4). Rotterdam – EuroHotel Centrum Rotterdam – EUR 75.00 per Twin Room/Double And includes Taxes
(5). Amsterdam – Park Plaza Victoria – EUR 139.00 Per Twin/Double And Includes Taxes (May Be An Extra 5% City Tax)
I hope this of help and availability is pretty tight in Brugge and Rotterdam and may be a good idea that we start booking rooms up as can only get more expensive.
What we can do is reserve the room, with just a credit card number, to avoid loosing the room for now. There is no charge is we decide to cancel the hotel at some point over the next couple of months. Although, for the hotels we are already sure about, then booking and paying in advance may well get us a slightly better rate.
What do you all think? Do you like the hotels? Are the rates ok?
It’s great to see the high level of interest for the London to Amsterdam cycle ride in August 2010 considering only 4 of us completed the London to Paris bike ride in 2009.
Confirmed as team members for this trip so far In alphabetical order are:
The team taking shape, but we are still looking for more team members. If you’re up for it, simply let us know by commenting below.
We started talking about organising another cycle trip before we’d even arrived at our destination during our very first trip the London to Paris bike ride in September. We wanted to complete a trip which was similar in many ways, i.e. starting from London and finishing in a major European city, but this time extend the trip by at least a day by covering a longer distance.
Many ideas came to mind, some good and some bad but when London to Amsterdam was mentioned, all of us we’re interested. We were all keen to start planning the next cycle ride. I plotted the route on Google Maps as soon as we returned from Paris, whilst Ed and Dave completed their own detailed itinerary and oddly enough we all came up with the same route, which is as follows:
08:00 Ferry arrive Dunkerque 10:00
So that’s the plan so far. I’m sure things will change as the event gets closer, just like it did for London to Paris, but the basic structure seems solid.
The four of us (Apple, Ed, Dave and myself) are all agreed and looking forward to this bike ride. Now we are just seeing who else is up for it. Are you?
