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13/07/2010 ŕ 20:34
25,000 kilometres to the coming RWC & 25,000 pounds for charity
There is a young lady and a young man from the UK who are probably pushing their pedals somewhere in the closer part of Asia even at this moment on their way to reach Auckland by next year’s Rugby World Cup. On the first stage of their route they have met rugby people from several European countries and they provided their rugby reports from the special angle that can not be taken up via any of the common organized tours.
Probably I am rather under informed in cycling business, so I have never heard such an adventure, except my retired PE teacher friend, Mr. László Cseuz in the Hungarian rugby town Szentes, who pedalled to 5 olympics between 1992 and 2008 travelling 37,462 kilometres mostly alone on 2 wheels. You may meet him on his Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/people/Laszlo-Cseuz/100000961919293?ref=search
On their blog www.pushbikediaries.com Jodie and Tom report about many of their adventures from taking off from Twickenham through France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey to reaching Asia and their second route leg heading up to Pakistan then the Himalayas in China.
To European rugby ears several names can be familiar and not to mention the amazing style of their reports. Reading about Claus-Peter Bach in Germany, Eduard Krützner in Czech land, Paul Duteil in Austria - and so on - are familiar to many rugby fellows working either at the official or grass root levels of amateur European rugby family.
Anyway, their great ‘expedition’ rewards all support. Be with them on their blog and give them all the possible support, reliable contacts and good advices, from the distance they may need on the hardest nine tenth of their long journey!
See also a some-week-old report about the cyclists at irb.com : http://www.irb.com/nationscup/news/newsid=2039145.html
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