Today, Radio 2 presenter, Paddy McGuinness, set off early – at 7.20am - from Kendal on Day 3 of Radio 2’s Ultra Endurance Cycle Challenge for BBC Children in Need. He’s attempting to cycle almost 300 miles from Wrexham AFC to Glasgow on a Raleigh Chopper, and people have been lining the streets along the way and it’s really spurring him on! You can follow him en route via the Tracker below.
Today is going to be the earliest start and latest finish, with over 12 hours in the saddle and having to ride over 66 miles! His route today begins at the Kendal War Memorial, starting with a brutal climb through the Cumbrian hills to Shap Summit at 1400 feet, then cycling through Clifton to Penrith passing King Arthur’s Round Table before reaching the England Scotland border at Gretna Green, finishing Day 3 when he reaches Ecclefechan and crosses the 200 mile mark across the three days so far.
He told Zoe Ball on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show that last night when he got into Kendal, he stopped to have a dance to a big troop of drummers who’d come out to greet his arrival in the town, saying when he saw them he thought, “I’m completely broken, dejected and finished today, and it’s the happiest I’ve ever been! And I really mean that because people power is the best tonic ever.”
Paddy McGuinness does Radio 2’s Ultra Endurance Cycle Challenge for BBC Children in Need – donate at www.bbc.co.uk/paddy
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