Raiders Race to Portugal

We're racing one of our charity trustees, Paul Nixon, as he tries to beat us to Portugal.  We're not actually going there ourselves, he hasn't invited us to ride along with him, maybe he's seen us on the BMX track or somewhere? Our challenge is to match Paul's daily mileage, collectively as a group, so if he does his expected 80 miles we have to do 80 miles between us.  That could be 8 miles each or maybe 10 miles, every day until he reaches the end in the Algarve region of Portugal.

We'll be trying to keep track of our miles each day and posting our 'virtual' location and mileage on social media to keep you all updated.

The event is part of Tyneside Outdoors' 10 year anniversary celebrations and the Race to Portugal is a cycling challenge to raise funds for Tyneside Outdoors and in particular its work trying to help more young people enjoy cycling as a way to get active outdoors. By supporting the challenge you will be helping TO get more young people cycling and enjoying the outdoors on Tyneside.

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Day one and we've done 130 miles collectively.  We only had 5 riders today, some slept in while others were away on holiday.  The route was very busy with riders and walkers and we only caught a little bit of rain.

We got to the Millennium Bridge around 11.45am 4 hours after Paul crossed on his way to Masham, his first day's target.  We're ahead on day 1 but there's a lot of miles to go.  Please keep the support coming!

At Tyneside Outdoors, we offer a professional Youth and Community Work service to residents in disadvantaged areas of Tyneside. We do this by working with young people in our youth groups and encouraging them to take part in a range of out-of-door activities to assist their personal development and most importantly- to have fun!

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The organisation was created to fulfil a recognised need within inner city communities, to engage people in informal education through outdoor activities, and was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with the Charity Commission in March 2014.