Dallaglio-Flintoff 2012 - It May Just Change your Life!

An excellent evening was spent last night in the bowels of the Stamford Bridge stadium where Lawrence Dallaglio and Freddie Flintoff launched the Dallaglio-Flintoff 2012 cycle ride to raise money for their charitable foundations on the back of two years of cycling all over Europe.

In 2009 I joined Lawrence and RPA Chairman Damien Hopley in Biarritz where they were embarking on a cycle ride across the Pyrenees with assorted guests and fellow money-raisers. Last year they upped the ante by cycling to and from all Six Nations venues, starting in Rome and ending at Twickenham, via Paris, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff, and riding through unseasonal Italian snowstorms.

This year the stakes are even higher. In April and May Lawrence, Fred and around 40 others, including celebrities from sport and entertainment on different stages, will attempt five long stages (all of which are four to five days in length) between the ancient site of Olympia in Greece and London's Olympia, through Greece, Italy, Switzerland, a tiny corner of Germany, France and finally England. It will be some adventure and testing to the limit both the particpantss fitness levels and alcoholic intake.

I am sorely (sorely being the apt word) tempted to join them, at least for a stage. Newsreader Dermot Murnaghan is similarly tempted, at least judging by what he was saying last night. For those interested to find out more go to www.dallaglioflintoff2012.com - it may just change your life!