EVERESTING, 2020

With all my summer racing cancelled this year at the start of June, I told Oli (my coach) that I wanted to work towards an Everest. With previous experience in this discipline, taking the youth off-road record a few years back, I decided on a climb requiring the same amount of ascents, 65.

Careful planning and a lot of maths went into this, we wanted to make sure we didn't make the mistake of underestimating how many reps we would have to do and utilising the knowledge from Andy Nichols, a big shout out to Andy for his advice on my nutritional strategy.

I also set up a Just Giving page, in order to donate towards Cardiac Risk In The Young and Alzheimers Society where £3000 was raised, truly amazing. Support on the day was incredible, many gave up their Saturday to help marshal and support the attempt, it was this support which helped me through the hardest reps in the second half and the fact that people didn’t choose to lose their loved ones really put the pain I was experiencing into perspective. A completion time of 8:53 puts me in the seat of the fastest junior rider worldwide to complete an Everest. Something I am incredibly proud of.

Thank you to all those who came out to support, with special mentions to Ilkeston Cycle Club, my mom and dad and Oli for their continued support.