The annual village wheel barrow race in memory of absent friends and family - Fundraising for Oscar's Neonatal Unit!
This weekend kicked off the charity shenanigan's with the Tibshelf annual wheel barrow race. In memory of the late Kevin Lance who would of been 50 this weekend; a much loved and missed resident of Tibshelf. Kevin's wife, Lisa, offered to donate all the money raised to the Kingsmill Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where my boy Oscar spent his short 5 days with us.
7 teams entered, starting at the White Hart at the top of the village. Half pint of lager each to kick start the race and we were off at all sorts of varied paces. I massively underestimated how physically demanding it is running with your 15 stone mate in a wheel barrow! The pain in my face from the photo below says it all!
We arrived at the next pub and our first pit stop after around 1/4mile, another half pint if lager was drank very quickly before swapping around in the barrow! Off to the next pub. This was almost a mile in between pubs, as the Wheatsheaf is no longer our local boozer but renovated flats (gone but never forgotten, RIP Wheatsheaf, the village will always love you haha). We finally arrived at the bottom of the village and took our second pit stop at the Royal Oak, what appeared to be another half pint of lager quickly made itself known to be Jack Daniels (sick face)!
At this stage the next and final pub was literally next door! We grabbed our barrow and sprinted to the finish line to finish the final half pint of lager! Within minutes, 14 experienced drinkers, were projectile vomiting across the Crown Hotel's car park, poor barmaids running around after us with jars of water and hosepipes to wash the frothy spew away!
It was amazing to see the whole village out to support us, every pub down the village high street was flooding out into the streets as if the yearly carnival was taking place again! It made me proud to see the community come together to support us.
I awoke yesterday, after a long over due drinking session, head sore and muscles crying! We counted the collection buckets and sponsors up and managed to raise a brilliant £330 plus reaching £275 on our just giving page.
So event 1 of 3 is over and we have totaled £605 with a month still to go before the second event, the Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge which will see myself and my work colleagues tackle the 24 mile hike in what we expect to take around 12 hours. I may just have to raise the target of £1000 to £1500 and hopefully with continued support raise it again for the final challenge!!!