Riding 190Miles! 305km in Wales: Friday 23.09.22

UPDATE... WE DID IT TOGETHER GUYS!

Before the release of the film, we raised a whopping £5,283 during wales for the heroes! I will be sending out individual, personal thank you's to everybody. This Fundraiser will remain active for everyone wanting to donate during and after the release of the film.

Backstory

I’m riding over 190 miles over the course of 3 days in Wales, starting from the top and going all the way to the bottom not just for the ‘fun’ but to raise money for the great, non-government-funded London Air Ambulance Charity. The ride will be painfully and mentally hard; it will be extremely tough and exhausting but worth every effort for this fantastic charity. The ride will also be filmed throughout the journey. The ride will be taking place on 23rd September 2022 - 25th September 2022.

Backstory

A date that’s now imprinted in my own, my family and my close friends’ minds is Monday 24th February 2020.

It was (or what should have been) a normal Monday morning we’re all familiar with, going to work. I love to ride to work and start the day with energy. However, I don’t remember what happened on this Monday morning, a short bike ride through central London. My parents received a phone call around 10/11 am from the Metropolitan Police informing them I was involved in a road traffic accident and to travel to London immediately. Before this, the London Air Ambulance was first on the scene, less than 10 minutes (during rush hour morning traffic) from the first 999 call! Performing life-saving treatment until my heart was beating to a near 4 BPM. I woke up three weeks later from a deep induced coma in a hospital bed in ICU, with my parents by my bedside. My brothers and friends visited daily. I couldn’t talk, couldn’t remember why I was there, couldn’t walk and went through a delirium stage, which according to my parents, was horrendous. Around ten days after this point, I was only starting to be able to communicate in some fashion, a nod of the head, even trying to write.

I had suffered a Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a Major head injury. I also incurred many fractures to the base of the skull and fractures to all of my facial bones. I was rushed out of the hospital earlier than anticipated due to covid becoming rife. During its first peak, I left the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel on 3rd April 2020, to rehabilitate at my parent's home in Burnley instead of sending me to Preston Royal. Both parents then supervised me at home with the help of many zoom calls with Physiotherapy and Speech and Language therapy. It was a critical stage of my recovery we (my mum, dad and myself) all followed their lesson plans on a daily basis. We all managed to work together successfully during covid.

Years later, I'm still slowly recovering from the trauma, with mental fatigue and pain in the head when overworked or doing tasks that I would have usually done before without pain or tiredness, without issue. This can be difficult when you know you can do something and you used to do it in a certain way before, but now I'm learning to adapt and accept I can't do it anymore (at least yet).

I was given a full report when I could and was fit to understand what I’d been through by Alice (The Neurotrauma Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Royal London Hospital) and Frank (From the London Air Ambulance).

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYZtf3TuVZo

LIVE GPS MAP

For those who have donated/are interested, you’ll be able to see and keep up to date on my ride via this website link live from a tracker on the bike here!

https://www.followmychallenge.com/live/4-beats-per-minute-2022

Filming

With the help and support of the company I work for, Hogarth, my close friends and great colleagues will be filming a documentary of my journey so far, the story and the ride in wales.

Money already raised! £704.41!!!!!

I am directly following on from the ride my brothers set up a couple of years ago for the same cause when my accident happened. We’ve decided to continue the fundraising through this event for the same end goal and fundraise quicker and in turn, a more significant amount for the charity. I was going to add it to this fundraiser however, with the platform processing fees and transaction fees, it makes no sense. I'd be giving your money to Gofundme and not the Air Ambulance.

Thank you so much for all those who have already donated!

Those people who have already donated so far are:

Jordan Taylor

Stuart Cross

Danielle Delooze

Georgia Entwistle

Kelly Geraghty

Jack Strachan

Jade Garton

Alice Cave

John and Sarah Cave

Jack Brown

Lucy May/Julie/ Jeff Spencer

Annabel Whiteside

Carenza Stride

Joanne & Colin Green

Charlotte Ager-Hayes

Sophie Lewis

Rob Jameson

Robin Lewis

Aprille Ager

Elise Gibbins

Elle Philpotts

Angela Shin

Sophie Pyke

Alex Goulbourn

Kathryn Hardacre

Gareth Seddon

Zenub H

Allison Box

Ben Mckenna

Carly Nuttall

Paddy Brown

George Ward

Carl Tomkinson

Stephen Salesse

Emmet Langan

Aiden Hoyle

Laura Hacking

Laura Herdman

Will Brown

Trusha R

Donate + Charity Infomation

Do you want to join me in making a difference by helping save people's lives like mine?

I'm raising money in aid of London's Air Ambulance and every donation will help.

Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

London's Air Ambulance brings the hospital to the scene - delivering urgent, cutting-edge medical care when time is critical. The helicopter and rapid response car teams are ready to respond 24/7 for every one of the 10 million people who live, work and travel in London.

For 32 years the Charity has been there, flying across London to provide life-saving care at the roadside. Every day people across London need emergency medical care, and do not have the time to wait.