Darren Bacon, Cyclist, Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge Team 2008

image: Darren Bacon, cyclist, Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge

Cyclist profile - Darren Bacon

The team currently comprises of nine cyclists, including a guest cyclist from Wight Mountain, Newport.

Date joined the IW Fire & Rescue Service: April 1995

Current Role: Firefighter, Blue Watch, Newport Fire Station, Isle of Wight

Nickname: - Daz, Dazzler, Doodle Bug

Age: 34

Status: Married: Sarah

Kids: three - Charlie 1, Yazmin 5, Oliver 8

Interests/Hobbies: - Cycling, golf, music, socialising

Favourite Food: chicken fajita, beef roast dinner, authentic pasta dishes, home made pizza

Favourite Drink: Ice cold beer in the sun, red wine

On the Challenge: - Second SQ2SQ challenge - completed SQ2SQ 2005 to Prague: 1.014 miles completed with a sore butt.

Odds on completing the Challenge: - Challenging but will not fail, whilst raising loads of money for charity.

 

Body Composition

Each cyclist is having his body composition analysed during the lead up and during the challenge.

The body composition monitoring is measuring the cyclist's weight, body fat percentage, water percentage, visceral fat, muscle mass, bone mass, basal metabolic rate, and metabolic age.

View Darren's body composition monitoring statistics here.

Training

All of the cyclists are undertaking an intense period of training leading up to the challenge in September 2008.

Each individual cyclist is starting his training from  varying level of fitness, with the aim of achieving a satisfactory level of fitness prior to the challenge in order to be able to complete the 1,400 miles inn 14 days.

 

 

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