Are you up to the challenge?
A 36 year old primary school teacher
from London has recently won £1500 to
help his plans to cycle around the
world...in a superhero costume. Will
Hodson (otherwise known as
SuperCyclingMan) aims to use the
funding from Kukri Sports to build a
website that will encourage children to
follow his round the world cycling
adventure and get them out and about
on their bikes.
He is currently looking for
webdesign teams to help him complete
the work on his website
www.supercyclingman.com in time for
his 4000km ride from Turkey to
Turkmenistan this July.
“I have so much fun cycling around the
world in my SuperCyclingMan costume.
By creating a really amazing website
with games, blogs and interactive maps
I aim to encourage children to get on
their bikes and have adventures of their
own.”
To train for his round the world ride Will currently cycles around 200 miles
each week, fitting in rides around Richmond Park and the surrounding area after busy
days teaching at school and at weekends. Will recently completed a gruelling 130km bike
ride in Scotland - the Etape Caledonia - finishing in an impressive 3 hours 35 minutes.
“I organised a sweepstake at school to
predict my finishing time to raise money for
charity. There were all kinds of guesses
from 3 hours up to 7 hours. I felt like the
whole school was watching me do the ride
so I HAD to put in a good time! I'm sure I
would have been even quicker if I hadn't
decided to wear a kilt over my
SuperCyclingMan costume on the bike!”
As well as encouraging children to do more
cycling, by cycling around the world in his
superhero costume, Will Hodson aims to
raise £100,000 for five charities: World
Cancer Research Fund, Parkinson's UK,
Sustrans, World Bicycle Relief and World
Wildlife Fund.
You can follow the adventures of
SuperCyclingMan on Facebook and Twitter.
As Will says:
“There aren't too many people
on Facebook or Twitter called
SuperCyclingMan, so it should be easy
enough to find me!”
If you work in webdesign and can help SuperCyclingMan create a website fit for a
superhero, please contact him at supercyclingman@gmail.com
September 9, 2014
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