{"id":931,"date":"2017-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/2017\/unicycling-for-syrian-children\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T11:06:15","slug":"unicycling-syrian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/2017\/unicycling-syrian-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicycling for Syrian children"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unicycling for Syrian children<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"row align-middle\"  id=\"row-23735725\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-244953080\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1037489122\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/schottland2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Unicycling for Syrian children\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1037489122 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-990615002\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p>Back in 2015, Ollie Green from Coldstream, set himself a rather unique set of challenges \u2013 first to teach himself to unicycle, and second to ride solo and unsupported, carrying food, clothes and camping equipment, over hills and through valleys, for 200 miles from coast to coast.\u00a0 That\u2019s 33 miles per day.\u00a0 Think of those stomach muscles!<\/p>\n<p>His reason?\u00a0 To raise money for Save the Children, specifically for their Syrian Crisis Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thinking about doing a few miles on a unicycle for a local charity, but seeing the devastating situation that the Syrian children are going through I decided to push myself do a much longer ride and try and raise a large target of \u00a310,000\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Ollie how his training for the challenge was going?\u00a0 \u201cMy training has been going great, it was bloody hard work in the beginning but I have enjoyed it more than I thought.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1465016352\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-377086872\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-8\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p>For training I am often doing 30+ miles in a day when I get a chance to get out, unfortunately only once a week at the moment due to work and family commitments. My hands and knees are no longer constantly cut and bruised and my sprained wrist seems to have healed. I now usually land on my feet when I do fall off.\u00a0 Sometimes going out with friends and family on bikes makes a nice change. All though this has been a very mild winter I\u2019m looking forward to the spring and the longer nights as riding in the dark is no fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be starting my journey at the Mull of Galloway Light House at 10am on the 10th of April and riding<\/p>\n<p>across Dumfries and Galloway, and across the Borders stopping at my house for a good night\u2019s sleep near Coldstream, before doing the final stretch to finish on the beach outside my Mum\u2019s house in Burnmouth on the 15h at about 6pm. \u201c<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-864819843\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-4\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_941751764\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/schottland1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Unicycling for Syrian children\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_941751764 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-246570590\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-945176935\" class=\"col medium-5 small-12 large-5\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1031745065\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/schottland3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Unicycling for Syrian children\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1031745065 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1274075468\" class=\"col medium-7 small-12 large-7\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h3>Ollie&#8217;s Route at\u00a0Unicycling for Syrian children<\/h3>\n<p>Ollie\u2019s route will take him through : *START \u2013 Mull of Galloway \u2013 Glenluce \u2013 Kirkcudbright \u2013 Castle Douglas \u2013 Dumfries \u2013 Moffat \u2013 St Marys Loch \u2013 Innerleithen \u2013 Galashiels \u2013 Melrose \u2013 St.Boswells \u2013 Kelso \u2013 Birgham \u2013 Leitholm -Coldstream \u2013 Swinton \u2013 Allanton \u2013 Chirnside \u2013 Ayton \u2013 Burnmouth \u2013 FINISH*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Ollie has a message\u00a0 he\u2019d like to get across about his cahrity challenge.\u00a0 \u201cAs much as this is for a very serious cause, I don\u2019t think you can take anyone on a unicycle too seriously, I\u2019m hoping to make people smile along the way. I have had a huge amount of training to do and a lot of picking myself up after falling off and I\u2019m glad to say that I\u2019m pretty ready for it.\u00a0 But I do need people\u2019s help.\u00a0 If you want a sponsor form or a collection tin to put in your local shop, schools sports club, place of work, office etc please contact me and I will send one out. Or if you can help me raise money in any other way give me a shout.\u00a0 \u00a0But more importantly Syrian children need YOU to sponsor me.\u00a0 Your kind donation will go a long way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to Ollie\u2019s cause click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/unicylcle-across-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>. You can chart Ollie\u2019s progress via his Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1297261983625453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/catalog\/custom-QX-rgb-Disc-Duni-787-mm-36-black\">36&#8243; #rgb unicycle<\/a> is the topnotch QX unicycle.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unicycling for Syrian children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[720],"tags":[754,933,934,812,935,936,729,775,937,938,939,916],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-754","tag-charity","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-distance","tag-fund-raising","tag-luggage","tag-qu-ax","tag-qx","tag-scotland","tag-syrian-children","tag-traveling","tag-unicycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qu-ax.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}