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Team Tandem is what me and one of my friends did last Sunday where we cycled, on a tandem, around Jersey where we live visiting all 12 parish churches on the way. For charity of course.

The whole route was just over 30 miles but we completed it in 3 hours 30 minutes. Technically however this figure should have been 3 hours 5 minutes because after the first 2 really big hills we were on the way to church 3 and the chain snapped. We had to phone up the bike rental place to get it fixed and they brought us a new bike which wasn't really as good as the old one. We names it Geroff because we thought that was a silly name. The old bike was called Murphy.

We're raised about £960 which we're splitting and giving to our in school charities for trips we're going on to build things in other countries, so hopefully now I have enough money to get me to India so I can go and build the house for the family there, which I will be doing in the summer.

woo! Galigan! Great work! And so much money! Want to do it again for my Oncology Ward? We need some new equipment

Seriously though, stuff!

oohhh...are you going in August, and are you going with Fulcrum?

No, I'm going in July with my school charity organisation called KCAP. (King's Community Action Programme)

Thanks MJ. I think most of the money we got because my friend's Mum knows loads of people. It wasn't actually too hard, although I did fall asleep in the car on the way back.

A well deserved kip I think and well-EARNED, eh? EH?!!!

Bravo boy, well in.

But yeah - well done I only asked as I know someone who's doing something similar.

must've been quite a bike ride!

It was. The worst bit was the second hill. Something close to a mile of road going up in the lowest gear there was (out of 24) and moving so slowly that I couldn't steer properly and kept wobbling. But we made it all the way up without stopping! Go us!

plause, dude!