SQ2SQ 2008 Team complete training weekend in New Forest.
The SQ2SQ 2008 Team complete a training weekend in the New Forest
Over the weekend of Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July 2008 the SQ2SQ 2008 Team completed 180 miles of cycle training in the New Forest.
The training weekend was designed to give the team an idea of what it will be like to complete near 100 miles per day back to back. For many of the cyclists this would be the first time they would have completed such a mileage on back to back days.
SQ2SQ 2008 cyclists on their training weekend in the New Forest
It was their first opportunity to complete some cycle training with one of the team, Mark Adams, who passed on much of his cycle coaching knowledge from his work in British Cycling.
Mark also planned the weekend, with the routes around an area where is a good knowledge of the terrain.
The training was over varied terrain in superb, but hot weather.
Cyclists were able to gain important knowledge about riding as a larger group consistently over 90 miles each day, as well as dealing with fluids and food in the heat.
Pace was a consistent average of 15-16mph, with the team covering 50 miles in around 3 hours 15 mins in the saddle.
This pace ensures that the team are on target to complete a similar pace for the challenge, with 100 miles completed in around 8 hours per day, including breaks.
SQ2SQ 2008 cyclists on their training weekend in the New Forest
The support crew were also able to gain valuable experience and an insight into the challenges that will face them providing support for the challenge.
Again the generosity of the public and businesses coming to the fore.
Forest Holidays Hollands Wood camp site in Brokenhurst kindly provided camping facilities free of charge and generously donated £50 to the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
A member of the public donated £10 to the team during the training ride and two couples donated £30 between then whilst the team were eating a meal in a local pub.
Thank you.
Some of the SQ2SQ 2008 cyclists are photographed here during their training ride and during a break.
Henry the Bear from St Mary’s Primary School, Ryde, Isle of Wight also makes an appearance, joining the team for the first time on their training.
Henry the Bear is one of the mascots for St Mary’s Primary School and he has travelled all around the world on various trips.
Henry the Bear will be joining the team whilst they complete the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge 2008.
Photograph to left: from left to right: Darren Bacon, Mark Adams, Gareth Drisoll, Henry the Bear, Andy Cooper, Ian Rock.
Statistics for each day of the training rides appear below – heart rate and calories stats relate specifically to Coops.
Training ride: 27 July 2008:
Route: Day One: SQ2SQ 2008 training weekend in the New Forest
Cycle Training: road cycling
Distance: 90 miles
Time: 5:51
Elevation Gain/Loss: 1,603 m / -1,609 m
Min/Max Elevation: 0 m / 169 m
Avg Speed: 15.3 mph
Max Speed: 34.1 mph
Heart rate average: 123 bpm
Heart rate max: 147 bpm
Calories used: 4,617 kcals
Training ride: 26 July 2008:
Route: Day Two: SQ2SQ 2008 training weekend in the New Forest
Cycle Training: road cycling
Distance: 90 miles
Time: 5:35
Elevation Gain/Loss: 1,704 m / -1,662 m
Min/Max Elevation: 0 m / 169 m
Avg Speed: 15.7 mph
Max Speed: 38.8 mph
Heart rate average: 125 bpm
Heart rate max: 166 bpm
Calories used: 4,574 kcals
Wessex Cancer Trust West Wight Group raise £2500 for the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
Wessex Cancer Trust West Wight Group raise £2500 for the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal
The Wessex Cancer Trust West Wight Group raised and donated £2,500 for the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
These hardworking fundrasisers for the Wessex Cancer Trust kindly donated the £2,500 to the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal at a meeting on Thursday 10th July 2008.
Wessex Cancer Trust West Wight Group raise £2500 for the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal
Andrew Cooper, co-organiser of SQ2SQ 2008, expressed his gratitude to those present at the meeting “This is a superb effort by all involved in the WCT West Wight Group. Fundraising is hard work and few realise this until they are involved themselves. This latest donation of £2,500 brings our total raised to an amazing £43,762.92 since the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal was launched in August 2007.
The ladies in the WCT West Wight Group have been involved with SQ2SQ 2008 from the outset and their involvement is invaluable to making it a success.”
Sincere thanks from all the SQ2SQ 2008 Team for the donation from the WCT West Wight Group.
The SQ2SQ 2008 appeal total is now raised to £43,762.92.
SQ2SQ 2008 Grand Prize Draw tickets now available
Tickets for the SQ2SQ 2008 Grand Prize Draw are now available
The SQ2SQ 2008 team are pleased to announce the availability of the SQ2SQ 2008 Grand Prize Draw tickets, with the main prize of a bike and accessories worth £600 kindly donated by Wight Mountain, Newport, Isle of Wight.
There are more prizes available: see here for a list of the prizes in the SQ2SQ 2008 Grand Prize Draw
If you are able to help us with prize draw prizes or selling of the prize draw tickets please contact us here.
The SQ2SQ 2008 Grand Prize Prize Draw tickets cost £1 each or in a book of five tickets at £5.
All proceeds from the sale of the prize draw tickets will go to the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge Appeal 2008 for the diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer and leukaemia patients.
The SQ2SQ Team and supporters will be promoting and selling the prize draw tickets at various events and locations on the Island.
SQ2SQ 2008 GRAND PRIZE DRAW
c/o Fire Station
South Street
NEWPORT
Isle of Wight
PO30 1JQ
Please allow 7 to 14 days for receipt of your SQ2SQ 2008 Isle of Wight Prize Draw tickets.
The prize draw takes place on Saturday 25th October 2008 at Cowes Yacht Haven, Isle of Wight from 7pm.
vectis Quilters raise £1,150 with prize draw for SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
The Vectis Quilters of Newport, Isle of Wight kindly raise £1,150 with prize draw for the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal
A group of quilters on the Isle of Wight manage to raise an impressive £1,150 from their prize draw to win a quilt, with the funds raised going to the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
Vectis Quilters raise £1,150 with prize draw for SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
The Vectis Quilters group presented their cheque to Kelvin Wright and his colleagues from Green Watch at Newport Fire Station on Thursday 10th July 2008.
Sincere thanks from the SQ2SQ 2008 Team for all the hardwork of the Vectis Quilters in not selling the prize draw tickets and raising £1,150 for the appeal, but also making the quilt for the draw.
The SQ2SQ 2008 appeal total is now raised to £41,213.04.
Trimble Mobile Resource Management complete fitting of tracking and WiFi equipment to SQ2SQ 2008 support vehicles
Tracking and WiFi equipment is fitted to support vehicles by Trimble Mobile Resource Management
A team of engineers from Trimble Mobile Resouce Management, based in Ipswich, Suffolk, visited the Isle of Wight recently to complete the fitting of tracking and WiFi equipment to the two support vehicles for the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge 2008.
Trimble Mobile Resource Management (MRM) is a leading, global provider of end-to-end Mobile Resource Management solutions designed to help businesses optimize fleet performance and the service delivery process by automating the management of their mobile workers, their mobile workers’ work and their mobile workers’ assets in the field.
The equipment fitted to the SQ2SQ 2008 support vehicles will allow the team to be tracked online by visitors to the SQ2SQ website, as well as allowing the team to update the SQ2SQ website and communicate with family and friends, as well as school pupils who may be contacting the team.
The sophisticated system will show the distance and speed of the challenge as the cyclists progress on their 1,400 mile trip through France, over the Alps into Italy and onto St Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
More details of how the team can be tracked and contacted will be released nearer to the date for the start of the challenge.
Sincere thanks from the SQ2SQ 2008 Team to Trimble Mobile Resource Management for their time and generosity in helping the team with their challenge.
The SQ2SQ Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 will see a team of Isle of Wight firefigthers cycling 1,400 miles each from St Thomas’ Square, Newport, Isle of Wight to St Peter’s Square, Vatican, Italy in September 2008.
The Team start their challenge on Saturday 30th August 2008.
Trimble Mobile Resource Management
SQ2SQ Team exceed their target of raising £40,000 for the diagnosis, treatment and care of Isle of Wight cancer and leukemia patients
SQ2SQ Team exceed their target of raising £40,000 for the diagnosis, treatment and care of Isle of Wight cancer and leukemia patient after eight months of fundraising
Following the kind donation of £1,000 from Shanklin Fire Station Social and Sports Club, along with the recent auction of eBay for two Bestival tickets raising £468, the SQ2SQ Team 2008 are pleased to announce that the target of £40,000 has been exceeded.
This is fantastic news and a reflection of the response from the public and businesses to the appeal, along with the hard work and time devoted to the challenge appeal since the appeal was launched in August 2007.
Back in May 2008 the SQ2SQ 2008 Team were pleased to announce that they had exceeded their original target of £25,000 and then raised their target to £40,000.
“We have been overwhelmed by the amount of public support and enthusiasm for this event, said Andrew Cooper, co-organiser of SQ2SQ 2008. Not only people keen to support an event that will provide equipment to be used locally in the fight against cancer, they are also interested in the unusual nature or the ride.
However, our fundraising efforts do not stop on reaching our second target and we are now raising our target once more to £60,000.”
Although primarily aimed at raising money, the ride is also keen to raise issues such as the benefits of keeping fit. As part of that, the Team have attended over 30 school assemblies promoting the challenge and British Cycling’s Go-Ride cycling development programme and explaining to pupils how they can get involved and complete their own mini Square to Square.”
The SQ2SQ Charity Cycle Challenge Appeal 2008 total now stands at £40,063 (as at 9 July 2008). A big thank you to all who have kindly donated to the appeal to date.
The money has been donated by many individuals, business and groups, along with the SQ2SQ Team 2008 fundraising with various events including charity car washes, collections at local stores and other promotional events.
The SQ2SQ Team are to continue their fundraising efforts and the target has now been raised to £60,000.
The SQ2SQ 2008 Team will be at Sainsburys, Newport from 9am on Saturday 12th July fundraising by bag packing for customers in return for donations.
The SQ2SQ Team 2008 have recently completed their visit to Isle of Wight schools as part of their promotion for the SQ2SQ Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 and the roll out of British Cycling’s Go-Ride scheme for all Isle of Wight pupils.
The SQ2SQ Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 will see a team of Isle of Wight firefigthers cycling 1,400 miles each from St Thomas’ Square, Newport, Isle of Wight to St Peter’s Square, Vatican, Italy in September 2008.
The Team start their challenge on Saturday 30th August 2008.
eBay Bestival 2008 tickets bidder donates £468 to the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal
A pair of tickets to the Bestival 2008 auctioned on eBay raises £468 for the SQ2SQ 2008 appeal.
A pair of tickets to the Bestival 2008 auctioned on eBbay raised £468 when the auction closed at 10am on 30th June 2008.
The winner bidder is from St Helens, Isle of Wight. Congratulations to the successfull bidder and his generosity to the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge Appeal 2008.
Bid in the auction for a pair of Bestival 2008 tickets here on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170231269878
BESTIVAL 2008
A pair of Bestival 2008 tickets (Bestival 2008 held 5 to 7 September 2008). This is for the full weekend with camping included as standard.
All proceeds from the sale going to charity as part of the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 Appeal for the Wessex Cancer Trust for the diagnosis, treatment and care of Isle of Wight cancer patients.
Travel and accommodation costs are not included. Buyer must ensure that they can go to the Bestival 2008.
The tickets have been donated to the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 Appeal by the Bestival organisers and are made available subject to the event promoters/organisers terms and conditions.
If you are successful in your bid you will be informed, but the entry will be for the two named people supplied by the winner being put on the official Bestival 2008 guest list by the promoter (actual tickets will not be provided). More details will be provided to the successful winner.
Face value of the ‘tickets’ is £130 each. The starting bid is £260. 100% of proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Wessex Cancer Trust as part of the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 Appeal. The tickets may not be sold or resold by the winner.
The ‘tickets’ for admission to the Bestival 2008 have very kindly been donated to the Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge 2008 Appeal by the promoter, Sunday Best, and Rob da Bank.
Sincere thanks from the SQ2SQ 2008 Team to Sunday Best and Rob da Bank for their generosity to the appeal.
BESTIVAL 2008
Bestival 2008 held 5 to 7 September 2008, full artist line-up for the Bestival 2008:
Underworld
Aphex Twin
Hot Chip
The Breeders
CSS
George Clinton & Funkadelic / Parliament
Pendulum (live)
Jamie Lidell
808 State (live)
The Sugarhill Gang (UK Festival Exclusive)
Laurent Garnier (3hr Set)
Paul Heaton
Roots Manuva
Carl Craig
Baaba Maal
Foals
Rob da Bank
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Roni Size / Reprazent
DJ Yoda
Stereo MCs
Jeffrey Lewis
Santogold
The Wedding Present
Layo and Bushwacka!
Zane Lowe
Metronomy
Annie Mac
The Cuban Brothers
Black Kids
The Count & Sinden
Roni Size
DJ Yoda Vs Shlomo (live AV show)
Sebastien Tellier
Transglobal Underground
Does It Offend You Yeah?
Chromeo
King Creosote
Kitty Daisy & Lewis
Digital Mystikz with Sgt Pokes
dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip
The Coral (Acoustic Set)
Mark Moore
Late Of The Pier
Grand National
Laura Marling
Lethal Bizzle
Ebony Bones
Ladyhawke
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Sportsday Megaphone
DJ Derek
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
DJ Hype
Buraka Som Sistema
Jon Hopkins
Christopher D Ashley
Gideon Conn
Imperial Leisure
The Black Ghosts
Dub Pistols
Florence & The Machine
Freestylers
Kissy Sell Out (live)
TC
Bailey
George Pringle
Sub Focus
Chase and Status
The Hat
Kid Carpet
Loefah
Kode 9 & Space Ape
Yuksek
Ida Maria
The Duke Spirit
Little Dragon
The Teenagers
Crystal Castles
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man
These New Puritans
Eddy Temple Morris
Tawiah
Red Snapper
Lykke Li
Let’s Wrestle
Subway
Annie Nightingale
Zombie Zombie
Mary Anne Hobbs
Subgiant
Coldcut (AV Set)
Justin Robertson
Cage The Elephant
Alexa Chung
Vessels
The Ghost
Peter von Poehl
St Vincent
Fuck Buttons
Drew
Kennedy
Micah P Hinson
FM Belfast
Bastila
Sombrero Sound System
The Restaurant
Slam
Pete & The Pirates
Hadouken
Vicarious Bliss
Lucky Elephant
Cut A Shine
The Nextmen feat. Zarif & MC Wrec
Joey Negro
Stanton Warriors
Jamie Jones
Todd Terje
El Guincho
Maurice Fulton
Idjut Boys
Shitmat
YILA
Jalapeno Sound System
Ricky Redhead
Cagedbaby
Brendan Long
Russ Cuban
Kelly Osbourne
Tayo
Firas
Ali B
Fear of Theydon
Akron/Family
Baker Boys
Blank Beats
The Burning Leaves
Miss Odd Kidd & Dekker
thecocknbullkid
Soul Of Man (10 Years of Finger Lickin)
Cooly Haste
Chrome Hoof
A-Trak
Cazals
Dollskabeat
Django Spears
Eugene McGuinness
Fatal
Sam Sparro
Flipron
Fresh Legs
Golden Silvers
Goodbye Stereo
Hey Negrita
Hugo Frusslinky
It Hugs Back
Jacob Golden
JC & Angelina
Kahindha
Lucid
Magnetic Man feat Skream
Benga & Artwork
Maths Class
Matt Sage
Micachu
Midnight Juggernauts
Misty’s Big Adventure
Natty
Officer Kicks
Paul Marshall
The Pinker Tones
Prince Of Whales
Rosie Oddie & The Odd Squad
Rosie & The Goldbug
Royworld
Sam Hare & Friends
Simon Dobbs
SixNationState
Slagmalsklubben
Sophie Barker
Sub Focus
Thee Earls
The Glamsters
The Guillotines
The Kurves
The Melodica, The Melody & Me
The RGBs
The Shortwave Set
The Skints
Think
Thomas Tantrum
Unforscene
Widescreen
Wight Light Orchestra
YACHT
Yellow Dog
Mike Oman
Mowlam
DJ Hojo Hits
The Shoes
The Petebox (Lake of Stars)
Appleblim
Nick Grimshaw
Men In Masks
No Fakin’ (Lake of Stars)
The Beat Monkeys (Lake of Stars)
Dom Chung (Lake of Stars)
Lark
Care In The Community Audiovisual (AV)
Nick Name