Stew with his fully loaded bike.

Table Top, Cake and Plant Sale, Ash

I.O.W Randonee 3/5/09

Stew's bruise after Weymouth trip

First long haul practice (80 Miles)

Commiserations Stew , take heart in you made a great effort and covered a long distance in the saddle. Lucy would have been proud of you I'm sure.Have a well earned rest and recovery. What the highlanders will make of Steve ranting to himself who knows.

Great effort Stew. Bad luck on having to call it a day. You have not let anyone down. Be proud of what you have achieved.

I'm sitting here refreshing the screen waiting for day 3's update, don't tell us Steve spent the Severn Bridge toll money on Stella and they can't get over to Wales. Keep going lads.

The boys left their hometown of Southsea Friday Mid day 5th June 2009. Maz, Millie and Annie all waved them off at the train station with party poppers and Champagne. They ended up in a lovely little B&B that evening and set out bright and early from Lands end on a very wet Saturday Morning. They did their first 80 miles and got to Liskeard in the afternoon. Stew made the journey unscathed but alas Steve fell and injured his knee. But this has not detered them and they have left Liskeard this morning heading for a further 80 miles.

1 June 2009 Did my last training ride tonight when I cycled back from work. Only fell of once when I had to stop sharply at a junction and couldn't get unclipped from the pedals. Only my pride dented though and I'm sure we're going to be fine. No more riding now until we start and only some very minor last minute preparations to complete.

Yesterday (Sunday 31st May) Stew spent part of the day packing his panniers and bike bags with all the stuff he thinks he is going to need, maps, pants, toothbrush...you know the sort of stuff! Well there is a photo of him looking very pleased with how it all fits...will get it uploaded soon! Anyway, only 5 days to go now! Maz

good luck stew, ive added this page on the weareleeds forum and will arrange for it to go on hants whites website aswell. great cause. marching on together

21/05/09 EHDC employee set to cycle the length of the country The memory of a friend’s tragic death has inspired an East Hampshire District Council employee to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for charity. Stewart Garside, of Southsea, will take on the mammoth 874 mile trip in honour of friend Lucy Ednie. 34-year-old Lucy, of Aldershot, died of ovarian cancer in October last year, after being married for just one year. Mr Garside, who will be taking on the task with friend Stephen Rowland, of Southsea, hopes to raise £500 for the charity Love Women, which fundraises for research into the disease. The pair plan to complete the journey, which they have named Luce Wheels, in 12 days, setting off on June 6. Mr Garside, an arboricultural officer, said: “This is important. Ovarian cancer can be cured if detected early enough. However, this does not happen often enough as there are few obvious symptoms in the early stages and they are often misinterpreted by GPs. “The charity’s aim is to raise awareness of these symptoms, but also to fund research to develop a test that would detect the disease at an early stage. Such a test is close to being available but more research is required. So the more money we can raise the better.” If you would like to donate to the charity, log-on to Mr Garside’s fund-raising page at: www.lovewomen.tributefunds.com and type Luce Wheels into the search box. Contact: Stewart Garside, East Hampshire District Council, 01730 234217.

Visited the Table Top, Cake and Plant sale at the Victoria Hall, Ash. It was great to see Peter and Marina again as well as so many of Lucy's old mates. Everyone had clearly put a lot of effort into the event and the hall looked fantastic. No wonder the sale was so successful and raised so much money for the charity. Congratulations to all involved, especially Kath, who even at 14 weeks pregnant, worked hard for many weeks getting it all together. Thank you also to all those who took the opportunity to sponsor us for our up coming bike ride (less than 3 weeks to go now). Your various comments and generosity are very encouraging. The ride home was less fun. Just under 60 miles with 20 mile an hour winds into our faces proved to be quite hard work. As always Steve appeared to find it much easier than I did, but was very good in waiting around for me and helping me through it. Hoping we don't get too many days like that on the actual ride! Stew.

Portsmouth to Alton and back. 63 miles before lunch. Mainly so Stew could make it to the pub for the Leeds vs Millwall game (12:45 kick off). Few mishaps, although, not for the first time, Steve did land in a hedge near Newton Valence.

Along with thousands of other cyclists (See Gallery) Stew and Steve Cycle around the Isle of Wight. 66 miles of testing hills but they got round. (Actually, because there senses were a little dulled at the end, they nearly went round again)

On holiday in Weymouth with the Wells' Stew did a training session around Weymouth and Portland. They have old tram lines in the streets in the older parts of Weymouth as Stew found to his cost. The back wheel got stuck in one and flipped him off. Fortunetly, he only suffered some bruising (See Gallery).

Maz here...every Thursday for a few years now...Steve comes round and he and Stew eat loads and drink all the wine in the house that exists. Well imagine...last night I thought they were taking the pis**...Steve actaully said (and there was food left) I'm stuffed! Then this morning I found an almost full bottle of wine and Stew reckons that they rounded off the night about 10! They ARE really doing it!

Bright and early on a Sunday morning, the morning after the night before when England won 4 - 0 in their friendly match, Steve and Stew head off a bit worse for wear. Steve a little bit worse off advising that he may need to stop for a sick break as he'd stayed later at the pub to celebrate England's victory. He also admitted that he'd had a curry on the way home. Oh well they are off on a 80 mile trek this morning and hopefully they will return in one piece.