Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

We’re going to do it! We’re SO CLOSE to the £3000 target to raise money for UKABIF. A massive amount of awareness has already been raised. I am so so grateful.

Let me tell you how the race went. I’ve only had my bike a month and have focused on distance rather than sprinting. After the first of my 4 laps (around 5km) my legs were burning. I’d somehow managed to get up to 18.5 mph on the final straight – I’ve not even come close to this before. I could just feel so many people rooting for me. Then disaster struck. After getting up so much speed someone pointed to where I should be going. It involved almost doubling back on myself. It involved a very sharp turn. Too sharp.

I went up on two wheels and needed to counter-steer to right myself. This all happened in…