Thought it would be great to add a different perspective to this blog - from Skill, the charity that these great guys are raising money for. I know this blog comes up as being posted by Keith but it is Carol from Skill who is busy putting down these thoughts.

A small team from Skill spent the weekend down in Cornwall helping with the send off on Monday morning - obligatory photo as Keith calls it on the left!

It was the most amazing morning, blue skies and sunshine and the air was crackling with the pent up energy of the Vodafone LEJOG team just wanting to get on with it!

Bikes were put together, brakes checked, tyres pumped and finally - they were on their way. Seven cyclists (Andy, Becks, Carl, Eddie, Keith, Mark& Veljko), with twelve days of road and adventure ahead along with 3 stalwart members of the back up team (Clare, Jenny & Lisa) who had the same amount of miles to drive but no idea what the next couple of days would bring!

I think Eddies comments on yesterdays blog thanking the back up team were so very , very right and true. This trip could not have, would not have, taken place without them - so a big personal thank you from Skill to the back up team as well.

But back to our intrepid cyclists - down to 5 at present with Becks and Eddie suffering from knee problems. Day 4 is listed as covering 61.8 miles all the way to Shrewsbury. Add the 20 miles that weren't covered yesterday and this makes for another heavy day on the road so at this point I need to say -Go team go! All of us here at Skill are routing for you all the way.

Thank you for doing this to raise money for disabled people so that they can make informed choices about their futures whether it be moving into further or higher education, training, volunteering or employment. You are the ones that are making this happen by raising the money Skill needs to help the disabled people that we work alongside. To coin a time honoured phrase (again) - we couldn't do this with out you!

Carol Ward

17th September 2009