Rugby mad cyclists
Last year Ian Mills and Simon Hill organised a dental implant conference in Cardiff to coincide with the Wales versus England Rugby International at the Millennium Stadium. It was the second year a conference had been organised with all profits donated to the Wooden Spoon charity which helps disadvantaged children. This year they decided they would have a break from conference organising and do something completely different.
‘Ian came up with an idea that we could go and watch Scotland play England at Murrayfield and then cycle from Edinburgh to Cardiff in time to watch Wales play Italy’, explained Simon, who has an implant referral practice near Cardiff. As an ex-international rugby player he was fairly undaunted by such a sporting challenge, but was mightily impressed with Ian’s enthusiasm for such an idea. ‘I was amazed that Ian had suggested this, as the last bike he’d been on was a Chopper,’ he added.
By the time Ian realised what he had let himself in for, it was too late to back out. He obviously wasn’t prepared to suffer alone so quickly recruited Martin Docking a dental technician from Cornwall, Adrian Watts a consultant in restorative dentistry in Cardiff and a couple of other unsuspecting friends. On March 14, a group of nine cyclists, three support vehicles and an orthopaedic surgeon, set off from Murrayfield to pedal the 450 miles to Cardiff.
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