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We’re delighted to announce that Daniel Bent will be supporting our Care to Cycle Challenge!
Some of you may know Dan already, but for those that don't, Dan is a good friend and supporter of InterHealth.
He's a professional cyclist and teacher turned adventurer! When he returned from an epic 15,000 mile bike journey from London to Chembakolli, Southern India we asked him if he’d support the event. Without hesitation, he said yes, and has offered to post his 'top tips' on the Cycle to Care facebook event page leading up to the event.
Get started with Danny's Top Ten Cycling tips
A bit more about Danny…
Dan has a background in finance, working for leading banks and brokers before leaving it all behind to pursue a career in teaching. Involved with journalism and fundraising on many levels, he left his teaching position in 2009 to pursue his twenty-year dream – to cycle round the world raising money for charity.
He has been world bog snorkeling champion three years running (2008-10), breaking the world record twice, and has represented GB as an age group athlete in world Quadrathlon champs (2004-05), the world and euro duathlons (2006-07) and the world xterra triathlon champs (2008). He has aspirations to beat all his father’s running PB’s, to qualify for the Ironman World Ironman Championships in Hawaii in 2012, and be the first person to cycle to the North Pole.
He also runs 'DEVELOPMENT' , a UK-based charity which aims to empower disadvantaged young people in the UK and in developing countries through bike-related sport and community-based social development activities.
Dan says; “I feel passionately about supporting InterHealth. The help and advice they gave me was invaluable during my 9000mile journey through some of the poorest countries in the Northern Hemisphere. To have a doctor on call 24hrs a day really put my Mum's worries aside and allowed me to cycle on confident that I was being looked after.”
You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir
If you need some inspiring reading material to get you stared, we recommend Danny's new book 'You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir', available soon. More information will be availble on our TravelShop.
| Book synopsis - 'You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir'
When Danny Bent cycled 15,000 kilometres from the UK to India to raise money for ActionAid, it was a decision that took twenty years and one minute. For twenty years he had wanted to do something to raise money for charity. The one minute was when he was put on the spot by his pupils and declared that the means was by bike, and he was going to India. What he had signed up for was slogging along roads with trucks bearing down on him, unable to see and choking in the smog; shooting down treacherous roads along 100 foot drops, shaking with cold and too numb to brake; muscle burn and saddle sores; delirium and food poisoning; thirst and malnutrition; foul and insanitary conditions; life-threatening crises; obstructive border guards, crazed dogs and inquisitive passers-by. 'You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir' is a real and compelling blow-by-blow account of Danny's trip across Europe, the former Soviet Republics, Russia, China, Pakistan and India. And what people! They are the true delight of this book, mostly charming, sometimes reckless, occasionally threatening, always unpredictable, and forever inviting Danny to be up for the challenge of entertaining them, in one instance by dancing in front of a packed stadium, in another by eating sheep's brains in a local night market. Danny turns the wheels, you turn the pages. The pace is relentless. The story is both heart-stopping and heart-warming. The arrival is breakdown-and-cry emotional. And there's loads of fun and wonderment along the way too.
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