Hope the admins dont mind me posting this here this topic isnt game related. I am doing a charity cycle ride and I could use some help with planning my route through Germany. Please read my story below.

Hi to all

My name is Nigel Morris. I am an overweight, unfit 45yr old truck driver.I have tried many times over the years to lose weight and regain some fitness, but after a short time I fell back into my old routine and gained many extra pounds in the process! My youngest daughter now lives in Austria with her partner and their twins. So to lose weight I am going to cycle from the UK to Austria and raise money for "Rays of Sunshine" childrens charity.

Challenge 1 - To lose 50Kg

This is going to be a long and hard challenge from someone so overweight and unfit but I AM DETERMINED to do it!

I have enlisted the help of a personal trainer Justin Murr who has offered his services free of charge to help me achieve my goal. Also, No1 Fitness Centre in Crosshills have kindly agreed to let me train at their gym free of charge.

Challenge 2

The route will start from my home in Steeton, West Yorkshire where I will be heading for Hull and a ferry to Rotterdam. Once I have regained my land legs, since I have never done an overnight crossing on a ferry this may take a while. I will then be heading for Assen to meet up with friends, Henk who competes in triathlons and Eldo who is a long distance runner so "im tired" will not be an excuse for an early night

After a good night with friends, a good sleep and some suikerbrood (sugar bread) for breakfast kindly supplied by Eldo I will be on my way again. From Assen I will be heading for the German border into the Niedersachsen region. Then travelling pretty much down the centre of Germany heading for the Bavarian region. I will hopefully be crossing the German/Austrian border at Passau, then heading cross country into the lower Austrian region. I shall arrive at my destination of Vitis hopefully in one piece, pounds lighter and a whole load of money raised for my chosen charity.

For more info go to

http://www.justgiving.com/UK2Austria-cycleride or http://charitycycleride.terapad.com/

Or my Facebook page or follow me on Twitter @nigelmorris66


If any you would like to sponsor me please email me ALSO I am in need of some help regarding planning my route through Germany, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated


Cheers

Modo

Wow modo ... finally thanks for your post here.
Let us see what we can do, never have heard about a jouney like this.
If you want to do this all with a bycicle then you have a damn hard job infront of you. You earn my deepest respect for that.
To be honest I have no clue how can you travel best and fastest way through germany without using those highways

may someone else have an idea?

hmm, id rather prefer running everyday around neighbourhood, but good luck mate!

Hi Modo :)

sounds like a big plan for ya. I press you all my thumbs that u can reach the aspiration u set urself
I'm sorry that I'm also not able to help ya in planing a bicycle tour trough germany. But nevertheless I want to give ya a smile with following;


Nothing else expected Mister M with ur super duper passat, mobile snow scraper ;D



I would prefer a flight trip over germany, coz it's much more comfortable and looks awesome up there ;))
Regarding this I would be able to create a flight plan for ya.
But to bad for ya, u can't loose that much pounds while sitting and pulling knobs ;P


Would be nice if u keep us up to date with ur tour. Post some photos here if u want. I'm positively curious about :)

Take care mate. Come back healthy!


PS: Maybe this could help ya in any way; http://translate.google.de/translate?hl ... hindex.htm

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