Over the May bank holiday seventeen students and staff completed what is now the annual coast to coast cycle ride.

Over the May bank holiday seventeen students and staff completed what is now the annual coast to coast cycle ride. This year the chosen charity was The British Heart Foundation. On Friday morning, in the heavy rain, all the bikes were packed onto the trailer for the journey to Workington in Cumbria. A 2pm start to the cycling with detours due to the severe flooding in Cumbria late last year saw the group arrive in Keswick in time for tea having covered thirty miles.

Saturday started bright but strong cold head winds and rain showers, along with a difficult climb up Hartside, made riding challenging. All the students completing the ride took this in their stride and arrived at the youth hostel in Alston for a well earned rest that evening. Sunday was the longest and hardest day with four big climbs over sixty miles, again made even harder by the unpleasant bank holiday weather. A tired but happy group finally arrived in Sunderland late on the afternoon safe in the knowledge that they completed a very hard weekend's cycling for a very worthwhile cause.