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Hey everyone, this year, I am joining The Cows again on a crazy mission. Together with my stoker, Derrick and 10 teams of 6 kids, we are riding the 94.7 Cycle Challenge on an 8-seater tandem! You read right! AN 8 SEATER TANDEM!!

As many of you may already know, I am an avid and competitive cyclist, welcoming many challenges on the bike but since Jan 2009, I have faced my biggest challenge yet…..off road!

I was dignosed with Bladder cancer. After 6 operations and 3 sets of chemo, I have decided that this will not get the better of me. I have sold my business and gone on semi retirement to take care of my health.  Being unable to race as competitively as in the past, I have still managed to complete a few gruelling ‘cycle tours’. These include Tour de Tuli in Botswana, Cape Epic, Namibian Tour and my latest as a marshall in the annual, Enervit sponsored, Standard Bank Cycle for Kids ride from Jhb to Dbn.

Just before last year's 94.7 Cycle Challenge,  I had a chemo series so decided to take part in the race on an ‘easy’ ride in a cow suit on behalf of CHOC. This is a worthy cause close to my heart. Together with the help and support of friends and family, I raised very close to R100 000. YAY!

 How can you help?

This year I'm riding a 8 seater tandem originally built for the Rosenkowitz sextuplet kids 30 years ago. I have managed to track this bike down and it has kindly been loaned to me by Roy Gardner. The idea this year is to take teams of 6 kids aged between 8 - 12 and ride from water point to water point changing the teams at each point.

It is my goal to get each team sponsored by companies, schools, churches etc... as well as by parents and friends of the participating children themselves. One of my companies, Enervit, as started the ball rolling by sponsoring R1000.00 per child. I'm appealing to sponsors to sponsor either myself or a team to raise R500000.00 for CHOC.

Please support me in this awesome challenge!

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CHOC 8-SEATER TANDEM “TEAM ENERVIT”

Team Enervit will be the first of 10 teams of 6 children to ride with Mark and Derrick on the 8-Seater Tandem bike to raise money for CHOC on the 21st November 2010 in the 94.7 CYCLE CHALLENGE.

The team consists of 2 girls; Heather Tanner (9yrs) and Amy Conradie (10yrs) and 4 boys; Joel Combe (9yrs), Cameron Patterson (9yrs), Brent Jamieson (9yrs) and Nicholas Mc Nally (10yrs).

Both Enervit and the children are very proud to be involved in such a worthy cause in raising both awareness and money to help children with cancer.

We thank Mark for the opportunity and salute him for his efforts in this initiative.

We are supporting you all the way!

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