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June
2016.
CYCLIST COMPLETES LONG DISTANCE MISSION TO GET TO THE CHURCH IN TIME FOR WEDDING

 

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CYCLIST COMPLETES LONG DISTANCE MISSION TO GET TO THE CHURCH

IN TIME FOR WEDDING

A special needs teacher from West London has completed a virtual cycling mission prior to his wedding in Northern Ireland in a bid to get in shape and to make sure he still gets to the church on time.

 

Ben Ryan, 31, a keen cyclist who works at Lindon Bennett in Hanworth, cycled the 552.7 miles from his home in Isleworth, West London to his wedding venue in the village of Ballydugan in Northern Ireland by using the virtual fitness app My Virtual Mission which mapped his entire cycle route.

 

Ben will be marrying fiancée, Norma Cromie, 32, a Business Studies teacher at The Heathland School in Hounslow, on July 28thin Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. The couple, who met in 2008, have been engaged since Christmas 2014. Ben, who set up wlondoncycling, which shares cycling routes and advice for cyclists in the area, charted his virtual cycle mission via a blog on the site.http://www.wlondoncycling.co.uk/#!my-virtual-mission/pbs6y

 

Ben undertook the cycling challenge with My Virtual Mission with the aim of getting in shape prior to his wedding. His fiancée, Norma, was supportive of his pre-wedding mission, which Ben says she finds preferable to him actually cycling to Ireland for real. Ben says: "My friends were discussing my next cycling challenge in front of my fiancée and came up with the idea about actually cycling to my wedding a few days before the ceremony. My eyes lit up with the idea, but I soon knocked that on the head by the look Norma gave me! She is much more conformable with this virtual mission and this way I can race to my wedding and not worry about not getting to the church on time!Norma loved seeing me pass our church on the penultimate ride thanks to the Google street view and she was thankful I got over the Irish Sea in one piece!"

 

Ben has stuck to his mission to make sure he gets to the church on time, saying: "My Virtual Mission offers a unique format where you can virtually tour anywhere and another way of tracking your mileage. It is also good motivation to get trim for the wedding - I lost a stone, which is great news."

 

 

Ben's Mission can be viewed at: http://www.myvirtualmission.com/missions/12477/get-me-to-the-church-on-time

 

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Contact

For more information, to speak to Ben or receive images, please contact Claire McGill viaclaire@garfunkelcommunications.co.ukor 07734 702653.

About wlondoncycling: www.wlondoncycling.co.uk

About My Virtual Mission:www.myvirtualmission.com

As a goal-setting and motivational tool, My Virtual Mission is amazing fun as you get to visualize your progress and check out your new virtual location as you work your way along your mission path. You can also use it to set up a long-distance ride, run or walk to fundraise for a charity or cause, since the app includes a function to receive sponsorships and track how much you've raised.

One of the really fun things about My Virtual Mission is that your mission can take you on a virtual adventure anywhere in the world. Heading somewhere exciting, somewhere famous or somewhere that holds personal significance could be your new fitness challenge for 2016!  You could aim to run the length of the UK or Africa - or if you're feeling really ambitious, the circumference of the earth! With every run you get to see your progress.

You can also set up two types of group missions so you can either challenge friends/colleagues to a virtual race or you can work as a team to complete an outrageously long mission together.