Hand cycling for Braint Tumour Research

The News, Portsmouth

Veteran fundraiser of 48 years, Paul Smith is embarking on his final challenge and the end of August to raise money for Brain Tumour Research in memory of his grandmother and a friend who died of brain tumour

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00:00I'm Paul Smith, in 91 I had a road traffic accident, someone was overtaking on a blind

00:25bend at night, hit me head on, I have a brain injury, I have spinal issues, shoulder, chest

00:37and numerous physical injuries. I've been fundraising for 48 years now and I always

00:47believe that there are people in the world that are worse off than myself and I feel

00:56that we should be helping them and helping brain tumour research in particular to find

01:06a cure for brain tumours. I am taking on the challenge to hand bike from Snowdon to Portsmouth

01:20at the end of the month to raise funds for brain tumour research. In memory of my grandmother,

01:31a good friend of mine Jenny Weller and another friend of mine Theresa. I've done gym work,

01:38strength and conditioning and tackled the hills around Portsmouth but there's no comparison

01:50compared to the ones in Wales but we can only do what we can do at this moment in time really.

02:01I'm out 100 miles a day most days, back to back, working hard up hills, in all weathers, rain,

02:13we've had the heat, 29 degrees set off at five in the morning, not got back home till about

02:23four in the afternoon and it's just keep pushing myself knowing that the hills that we are going

02:33to face at the end of the month are going to be a challenge on their own. I want to thank

02:40all my sponsors Evans House, Shaw Up and Running, Global Leather, Alexander Sports, Southgate and

02:47Finchley Coaches, BH Live and GC Bike Repairs, Elite Electrolytes and Strike Type who produced

03:00all our posters and our logo, Formanauts and LV Rehabilitation and Applied Driving all been

03:15and let's not forget Broadway Coffee Roasters, they've been absolutely amazing throughout this

03:24journey and without you guys we couldn't carry out the challenge.

03:33This will be my final challenge, it'll be emotional because of my grandmother,

03:44I only found out she died of a brain tumour two months before I did the climb up Mount Snowdon

03:52and Jenny, I will continue to support charities and continue with my fundraising

04:01but it won't be on a physical scale to compare to what I've done, I think it's time to

04:10listen to my body, I've never been very good at that, I've always got on with it

04:18but I think now I just take things a little bit easier but I will continue to do some challenges

04:28at some kind of charity work, I don't know what it'll be, I haven't really thought about it,

04:36we have to take one step at a time, one day at a time, let's get this challenge out the way and

04:42see how I feel afterwards, I'm sure that something will come up.

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