Despite a rare disease knocking the team down like flies this week, we've still managed to keep our little pot of events simmering away nicely...


staff on the run!

Matt took part in Run to the Beat last weekend and completed the race in an impressive 1 hour 50 minutes - putting him in the top 10%! Superstar!

Not to be outshone, Ols is taking on the Chicago Marathon next weekend and is heading off to the windy city on Thursday to take in the sights and sounds and carb it up USA-style before the big race on Sunday. Good luck Oly! If you would like to sponsor Mr Watts, then you can go to justgiving.com - only kidding, obviously he's running for our favourite charity! You can sponsor him here http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/ollywatts

While Oly is away, Jo and Mark will be setting up the stand at the Cycle Show, which kicks off next Friday (9 October). Jo and Matt will be manning the stand for the weekend and are hoping to pull in some more cyclists for L2P 2010 to take our total number of riders signed-up so far over the 300 mark.

Let's hope that 2010 can be as impressive as this year's ride... Oly revealed this morning that we have just had a record-breaking year. Get your champagne glasses out as we announce that we've raised a whopping £840,000 from this year's ride!!!

In other exciting news, Suzy and Gem are off to Gosport on Friday to meet up with the participants of our first ever Sail the Solent Challenge. Six boats will be competing against each other next weekend in a race around the Isle of Wight before a well-deserved celebration and awards ceremony on the Sunday.

Suzy's really excited about the new event and we're so thrilled that it's been so successful in it's first year. Lee Collier will be on board to take photos of the race and we're hoping the local press will be at the celebration dinner to write up the shenanigans of the weekend.

That's about it for this week. Suzy is battling bronchitis to make it up to the Peru reunion this Saturday and the rest of the team are battling the nerves of waiting for the Virgin London Marathon Ballot results in the post...