Have you been following any of the Sport Relief activities? James Cracknell is on his way to North Africa, and at the moment he’s in Northern Spain. How’s he getting there?
First he rowed across the English Channel. Which is impressive enough, even giving his Olympic heritage in this sport. He’s now cycling from there, through France, over the Pyrenees and down through Spain and covering around 1400 miles. His final stage will be to swim the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco (12 miles). Absolutely nuts. So he’s traveling from England to Africa using his own power, and his aim is to do all this within one week. Right now he’s cycling around 300 miles every day.
What an awesome thing to be able to attempt, although I can’t imagine how he’ll be feeling by the time he gets crawling in the sea (David Walliams will be joining him for the swim).
You can keep up on his progress with his blog:
www.challengecracknell.com
Now that’s a proper blog with some worthy content! You can sponsor him from his website, and see where the money that he hopes to raise will go.
Keep it up, Cracknell!
