We’ve just come back from the opening ceremony of The ELA Cup organized by our local football team AS Gresivaudan at Pontcharra. The football tournament kicks off tomorrow and has attracted 16 under-13 teams from around the Isere region and further afield. In fact, three of the teams have travelled by bus all they way [...]
I have just received Mark’s report of the final stage of the Cape Epic which you can read on the diary. Thank you to everyone who has supported them. Together you have raised well over two thousand pounds for the Myelin Project UK. We really appreciate it.
I am pleased to announce Epic4Joe. Our friends Mark Lawn and Dave Featherstone, will race the Cape Epic Mountain Bike Race in South Africa on 21 – 28 March. Their team is called Epic4Joe and they’re raising money for The Myelin Project UK. This event is my ultimate dream and I am secretly very jealous, [...]
On Monday 27 October 2008, Paul Hickey and Ciaran McNally, ran the Dublin City Marathon (26.2 miles) for ELA via Tri4Joe. Paul posted an impressively speedy 2 hours 45 minutes time and Ciaran finished in a very respectable time of just over 4 hours. We are so pleased that Paul and Ciaran have chosen to [...]
The eight Irish women that I wrote about in our last post have done a truly magnificent job by completing the Evening Echo Ladies Cork City mini marathon and raising 1,500 euros for the European Leukodystrophy Association. Thank you so much to Dee, Ger, Sharon, Maria, Deirdre, Kathy, Sinead, and Aideen, all of whom finished [...]
Eight Irish women, including my sister, Sharon, and my sister-in-law, Deirdre, will line up this weekend (Sunday 28 September) and Run4Joe to raise money and awareness for the European Leukodystrophy Association (ELA) at the Cork Ladies Mini Marathon. The mini marathon consists of a 4 mile run through Cork City. A big thank you to [...]
Well the title says it all! Last week Colette and Joseph spent the week in Ireland with her family. When they came back Colette had a fistful of cheques representing the last of the money that we have raised as a result of Tri4Joe. This means that we are now, finally, able to post a [...]
Yesterday a friend of ours, Graham Hiscock of SEEDS Cycling, together with many friends of ours from our old triathlon and cycling clubs in the UK (White Oak Tri Squad and Old Portlians CC) organized a charity bicycle ride around Kent which they aptly named Ride4Joe. But it wasn’t just our old friends who came [...]