Andy

In less than three years, Andy’s taken on some of the toughest ultra-endurance rides out there and come through them stronger, faster, and more determined than ever.

It started with a self-set challenge to cycle to the four compass points of mainland UK Lizard Point, Lowestoft, Dunnet Head, and Ardnamurchan a 2,300km ride with over 18,000m of climbing... all in under seven days, during a heatwave.

From there, we set our sights higher, the Transcontinental Race. 4,300km from Roubaix to Istanbul, through checkpoints in Slovenia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Turkey. It’s unsupported, self-routed, and brutal. Andy finished in just 15 days, sleeping only a few hours a night the oldest finisher in the race, and 103rd out of more than 300 starters.

This week he completed the Silk Road Mountain Race, 1,900km and 31,100m of climbing through remote, high-altitude terrain. Gravel, hike-a-bike, long stretches with no resupply. It took him slightly less time than he had planned, just 13 days, 3 hours and 27 minutes, coming 76th overall.

In the race debreif, he said it was the toughest thing he'd ever done mentally or physically and was glad that we had such a big focus of pure strength and movement strength patterns through his training.

The first week was the toughest, with back-to-back 10k steep climbs with slippery shale, where pushing the mountain bike was the only option.

He did this in aid of raising awareness of the bowel cancer charity 40Tude. Chapeau Andy to raise over £350,000 over the total events is a massive accomplishment.

Andy