The Beverly Guardian newspaper in England tells of Jim Windass, who will soon bicycle the Mother Road to raise money for the Dove House Hospice.
Jim, 63, will begin his mammoth 2,451-mile journey at Loving Heart Hospice in Los Angeles, California, before winding through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Jim will finish his gruelling ride across America at Cycle 66’s other partner hospice, Rainbow Hospice in Chicago, Illinois.
The ride will start on 4 August 2012 and Jim hopes to have reached Chicago by 27 August, giving him just three weeks to complete his task.
“There are no contingency plans,” he said. “We must get there for 27th, as that is when the plane leaves.”
By my calculations, Windass will have to average a little more than 100 miles a day. And doing it in August will put him right in the middle of some of the worst summer weather.
Gatorade. Give him lots and lots of Gatorade.
The website where you can give money is here. With weeks to go before his trek, he’s already raised more than 6,000 British pounds of the 10,000-pound goal (about $15,700 in U.S. dollars).