A Middlewich woman is planning to cycle over 1,000 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats for her latest challenge in aid of St Luke’s Hospice.
Jennifer Snelson and four friends hope to complete the gruelling bike ride in just 14 days, cycling between 55 and 90 miles each day.
Jennifer hopes to raise over £1,600 towards patient care at the hospice.
Jennifer, who works as a barber in Middlewich, has already raised nearly £7,000 for St Luke’s since 2015.
She was inspired to fundraise after a friend’s grandad was looked after at the hospice. She has also lost friends to cancer.
Jennifer said: “After seeing the amazing end of life care friends and their families received at St Luke’s at some of the worse times in their lives, I felt I had to do something to support the hospice.
“This is a once in a lifetime experience which although I know is going to be amazing in parts, there’s also going to be parts that are going to break me physically and mentally and push me to my absolute limits.
“But I’ll be pedalling my heart out in memory of loved ones and that’s what will get me through, that and the support I know I will receive.”
She added: “The total distance is actually 1,029 miles! We’ll be cycling from the top to the bottom of the country and it is completely funded by ourselves, so any money donated will go directly to the hospice.”
Jennifer is no stranger to completing extreme challenges to raise funds for the hospice. In 2016 she pushed herself to the limit for St Luke’s, not once but twice.
First she conquered a 62-mile, 27-hour walk between London and Brighton.
One month later she completed the Fan Dance, a gruelling 24km non-navigational race over two sides of Pen Y Fan, the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons.
The Fan Dance is a notoriously difficult challenge and is used as part of SAS recruitment.
Angela Slack, community partnerships manager at St Luke’s Hospice, said: “Jennifer truly is one of our hospice heroes!
“She has pushed herself to breaking point time and time again for St Luke’s with her various challenges and she has raised a phenomenal amount of money for the Hospice.
“We are incredibly grateful for her continued support and wish her the best of luck with this epic cycle ride.”
Jennifer sets off on her Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle ride on Sunday 1st July.
To support Jennifer’s fundraising please visit her JustGiving page.
