After facing personal health challenges, losing my mum to Alzheimer’s disease, and seeing the devastating impact of Motor Neurone Disease on my wife’s family, I decided to take on a challenge that would turn loss into hope.
I’m training for a 60-mile charity bike ride to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society and the Motor Neurone Disease Association, two charities that have become deeply personal to my family.
This journey is about more than cycling. It’s about rebuilding my health, honouring the people we have lost, supporting families facing these cruel diseases, and proving that even after the hardest moments in life, something positive can grow.
The challenge is not just the ride, it’s the fact I also have to lose a lot of weight and overcome some health issues to do it. I’ll be logging my progress below and with the help of some friends, training hard.
My progress is shown below:
I will soon be posting links to the donations pages and if anyone or any businesses want to support the effort, please contact me on info@philiphunton.co.uk any support in training, gear or just a word of wisdom is appreciated.
12th August 2026 – Update
Training progressing well, 7kg lost and fitness increased. Nightly 3 mile ride getting easier so Im increasing it from next month to 7-10 miles. Huel leaving me filled and refueled, surprisingly no hunger after! (Click here to get yours). Morning 1 mile walk and afternoon rides seem to be building fitness well.
17th August 2026 – Update
Training increased from 3k steps and 3.5 mile ride to 4k steps (1 mile 6am brisk walk) and mixing in 3.5 and 6 mile rides depending on how my body is feeling. Nutrition has vastly improved, VO2 is slowly increasing and I have not needed my COPD or Asthma inhalers since starting cycling. Feeling good, will be setting up a team sponsorship on Just Giving, unfortunately it won’t allow me to split 50/50 between two charities but I can create a team and request sponsors to try and keep them equal. Onward and upward.