And the final whistle blows

The trip from the Premier Inn Brentford/Kew to Watford and then on to Chorleywood Common Youth FC was a bit like the final stage on the Tour de France and was a celebratory cruise. No sipping champagne along Vicarage Road though.

Full marks to my nephew Matthew for joining us on the final run in and to Roy Bennett for doing the final stretch from Vicarage Road to CCYFC.

Josh and Becs did the whole trip today which was a total of 21.7 miles and made a final overall total of 677.1 miles.

So I did it. I nailed my colours to the mast and got the job done. At many times mine was the easiest job.

I cannot stress enough what a great job Stephanie did ahead of the trip with organisation and logistics. This continued with magnificent support during the trip. Always being there or thereabouts with food, drink, reprogrammed GPS systems and words of encouragement.

I will long remember the hours with Josh and Becs and the days and days of humour in the down time. Sometimes the laughing made me ache more than the miles.

Thank you again to my Partners at Turbervilles whose committment to this challenge was fantastic.

Thank you to those who have followed the blog and who have sent messages of encouragement throughout the two weeks.

And finally thank you to those who have sponsored the challenge. The virgin money page will remain open for some days yet. To those of you who are waiting to see if the fiftysomething would do it, well he has so you have no excuse now. We are edging towards the £5050 target so please, please if you have not donated yet may I urge you to do so. You know who you are and i will be chasing you later this week.

So this is the 50/50 Challenger signing off for now. When the donation page closes off I will post again but for the afternoon at least it is feet up.