Welcome to the End to End Blog for Rich, Lex, Simon and Mark. That's 3 of us in the picture! We start the trip on the 19th June and will submit several daily blogs and pictures to the site. We start at Land's End and plan to cycle to John O'Groats taking in a few islands on the way.

We're cycling end to end to raise money for Cancer Research UK having lost several parents in the past year. At the time of writing I believe that we have raised nearly £1,500 and I'm sure that we can raise much more.

If you'd like to make a donation then you can do so on-line here: http://www.justgiving.com/alexisjones12 Any encouragement that you would like to give is more than welcome.

Just over two weeks to go now and most of us have been in training. Just need to fettle the bikes now and cure those bottom bracket noises.