skate journey

The Mission
Published February 17, 2012 - No Comments
What’s The Mission? In the summer/autumn of 2012 Jonny Bassett and Joel Robinson are hoping to cross Europe with wheels under their feet. That’s right… roller blading! Why? – As you are reading this there are many people all over the world suffering from poverty, ...
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Team
Published February 17, 2012 - No Comments
A Bit About The Team - Jonathan Bassett Engineer and inexperienced adventurer. I’m looking for a chance to test myself and hopefully have some good fun. Previous adventures: I’ve completed some marathons and longer distance runs, the ‘Three Peaks’ and ‘Welsh 3 ...
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Route
Published February 17, 2012 - No Comments
See below for our planned route so far! We are hoping to roller blade, discover and visit various people and places in Europe. If you know of anywhere great, that should not be missed or would like to be visited please let us know. And yes we do plan to get through the alps. Select OSM ...
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Donate
Published February 17, 2012 - No Comments
Just Giving! As you are reading this there are many people all over the world suffering from poverty, war, injustice and lack of love, and so our aim is to start using our lives to change other people’s lives. We thought that one of the most effective ways to do this is to raise mone ...
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Challenge us!
Published February 17, 2012 - 2 Comments
Why Not Challenge Us! Our plan is for you guys to get involved with our journey by setting us various challenges to complete along our way. With each challenge set you can also sponsor us an amount to complete it and this will help us out along our way. We will then prove our completio ...
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Challenge list
Published February 19, 2012 - No Comments
Here is a list of all your challenges and if they have been completed or not. Challenges Challenge 1: Dress up like the people from blades of glory for a day and learn some of their moves (awaiting completion)
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Blog
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Training – 12th April – Bournemouth

Published April 13, 2012 at 12:20 pm - 1 Comment

Today, Jonny and I met up for a combined skating session. I am back from Kenya for a bit and Jonny is down from Cambridge, so it was a great opportunity to meet up, hang out and do some skating! We went to a place in Bournemouth called Hengistbury Head and found a nice spacious [...]

Training – 25 March – 29.16miles

Published March 25, 2012 at 6:35 pm - 2 Comments

Decided to find the end of the busway today. Turns out it was over 14 miles away, so a round trip of 29.16, in over 2.5hours. I tried out endomondo app to track the journey, gives you a cool speed graph! But it cut out for the return journey.. Good technical improvement today, and I [...]

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Training – 12th April – BournemouthPublished April 13, 2012 at 12:20 pm
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Training – 18 March – 16.3milesPublished March 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Training – 11 March – Approx 8 milesPublished March 11, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Training – 25 Feb – 8.4milesPublished February 25, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Euro VeloPublished February 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Planning!Published February 17, 2012 at 9:39 am

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