Teammates embark on 1000-mile cycle challenge to honour colleague Kieran
Two colleagues, Rob Thick and Hadley Gibson, are cycling across the region as part of a ten-day, 1000-mile cycle challenge to spread awareness of prostate cancer. They’re doing this to honour their late colleague and close friend, Kieran Clark, who died in November from prostate cancer at the young age of 38.
Before Kieran passed, his male colleagues from the NATS Outstations team had PSA tests to check for prostate cancer, too.
Unfortunately, another teammate’s, Paul Graham, came back positive having had no symptoms at all. As a result, Paul has had surgery to remove his prostate and has thankfully just received the all clear. Paul feels that Kieran was able to save his life through his death.
To support their friend and demonstrate the importance of getting checked, Rob and Hadley are cycling from Land’s End to Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Isles from 1-10 July.
" Cancer affects almost all of us in some way - whether through friends, family or colleagues,” says Rob. “That's why we're using this challenge to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK.”
Their daily route plan sees them travel through multiple regions over the next few days, with the journey breaking down like so:
1 July – Land’s End to Okehampton
2 July – Okehampton to Bristol
3 July – Bristol to Shrewsbury
4 July – Shrewsbury to Preston
5 July – Preston to Carlisle
6 July – Carlisle to Livingston
7 July – Livingston to Braemar
8 July – Braemar to Bonar Bridge
9 July – Bonar Bridge to John O'Groats, then cycle through Orkney to Kirkwall to catch the ferry to Shetland
10 July – Arrive in Lerwick, Shetland and cycle to Sumburgh Airport
To donate go to https://www.givewheel.com/fundraising/13386/1000-miles-against-cancer/