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and he s doing it in honour of tom smith, the former scotland rugby captain, who died from the disease back in april, aged just 50. martin geissler went to meet him. andy petersen has lost family and friends to bowel cancer. so he decided to get on his bike to raise awareness of the condition and help to fight it. the symptoms, broadly, are blood in your stool, is a big one, abdominal pains, sudden loss of weight, change in bowel habits, all of which, actually, i m about to experience in the next seven days. but not because of bowel cancer, but because i am spending 16 hours a day on a bike. this is no ordinary challenge. over the next week, with no support team and just the bare essentials strapped to his bike, andy will cycle literally the length and breadth of britain. starting at lizard point, the southernmost tip of the mainland, he will go to the easternmost lowestoft in east anglia. from there, it is an enormous schlep up to dunnet head, the most northerly tip ....
The southernmost tip of the mainland, he will go to the easternmost lowestoft in east anglia. from there, it is an enormous schlep up to dunnet head, the most northerly tip of mainland britain. then, finally, just seven days after he sets off, he will reach the last point of the compass, ardnamurchan point, in the west highlands journey s end. 2,500 kilometres is about the distance from here to kyiv if i was cycling, if i wanted to cycle to kyiv, which would be very nice. and also, to give it some context, the tour de france is 3,500 kilometres, but they do that in 21 days, not seven. i m nervous, but there is no way back, and the support has been phenomenal. it would be hard enough for a professional endurance cyclist, but as andy points out himself, he is a 55 year old, is stone amateur. so why on earth is he doing it? i m doing this because bowel cancer is a disease that has touched my family and friends, and it is a massive killer in the uk, but no one talks about it. ....