777km cycle relay (North London)

Wheels of Recovery made good its promise this year to widen endurance events amongst recovery communities by working in conjunction with Air Football who brought service users from Redbridge, Newham and Tower Hamlets to attempt a second 1000km relay ride.

Well,...the weather was torrential rain but perseverance saw us complete an amazing 777 kilometres of walking, running and cycling. Air Football were particularly impressive in pushing everyone on, and all this despite losing their project leader and figurehead Colm, who was badly injured after crashing out of the lead on about the 4th lap. Ambulance gone (amid cheers of encouragement) and did the Airfootball crew stop.......no! They carried on to take eventual 1st and 3rd place at 100km's and most of the top mileages.

next year we go across the UK!..............on foot!

Redbridge Olympic Track

This was our second outing to the new redbridge olympic cycle centre where we go off roading. On the first outing last month we were joined by Air Football (see link) who brought service users from Newham, Redbridge and Tower hamlets. This month BUBIC (see link)joined us from Haringey as well. We are slowly getting a mix of North and East London boroughs, with different age groups and service user backgrounds. Run up to the second "1000k in a day" event is on us and this year we expect to see many London Boroughs participate including Bexley(DASL) who recently won funding from LCC to run a similar project in S.E. London. Good luck guys!

After we all headed back to KINESIS in Tottenham where we met David Lammy M.P. which was an interesting experience.

By the way, you only end up a casualty if you ride hard..! It was a cool fall though J.