Saddle up! It’s all for charity

By Alex Narey, 
So it’s official, in June The NLP’s Matt Badcock and I will be donning the lycra as we tackle the ‘Football to Amsterdam’ bike ride as we bid to relegate Prostate Cancer!
Starting out from London’s Lee Valley Velo Park on June 7, our ride will be spread over two days with the small matter of 145 miles to negotiate between the cities.
For those based in the north, there is a second route that gets you pedalling from Barnsley’s Oakwell Stadium. Both routes will take an overnight ferry from Harwich and Hull respectively before hitting the Dutch tarmac the following day.
The annual Football to Amsterdam ride has become part of the footballing calendar and each year a plethora of clubs and players, both current and former, get behind the project to support the charity.
Last summer, I took part in a marathon walk across Leeds for the charity, and I saw first hand the energy and dedication that goes into fighting this disease.
The statistics are quite galling! In the UK, One man dies every 45 minutes from prostate cancer but there are continuous efforts to help eradicate that number, and The NLP is proud to be associated with PCUK as we aim to keep up the awareness with the recent addition of the ‘Man of Men’ logo on our front page.
Look out for my online training blog in the following weeks as I aim to shed a few more of those Christmas pounds as D-day in June looms ever nearer.
For more details on the charity and how you can help, visit https://prostatecanceruk.org, and if you fancy joining us  on the ride, you can get a £50 discount by using code NLP19.
The paper is keen to pull in the numbers to make up our team, so you can email me on alex.narey@ greenwayspublishing.com.