In 2011 after being looked after at home by the wonderful nurses of St Davids and then the exceptional nurses at the in house hospice of St Annes, sadly, John Dixon passed way, following a difficult battle with cancer. We asked the Hospice how much we owed them for the 5 days he spent in the hospice and we were amazed to find there was no charge!!! After the funeral we asked how much it costs to look after a patient for a day and we were told approximately £500. As John had spent 5 days there we decided we would like to raise £2500 and that is where the journey began. Ian ratty Humphries made the comment over a few beers “Don’t laugh, Reesy will have us all doing something next year to raise money for the hospice” and thats exactly what we did.

We planned a route, around ten South Wales Hospitals, via the Cancer treatment Hospitals that had supported John through his illness. The route was 40 miles long and 30 people, mostly familly and friends, set out on a Sunday morning from St Anne’s Hospice. Everyone that started finished, which was an amazing feat, in total 1200 miles were covered, incurring only 1 puncture and 1 broken chain. The result was we raised just over £10,000!!!