If we picked any month to ride in the U.K., it probably wouldn’t be March. But on March 10th several celebrity/professional athlete contestants will bike, run, row, and sail a total of 1,000 miles over the course of eight days in a clever contest that has the Irish, English, Welsh, and Scots all pitted against each other, with each starting at home, racing clockwise through each others’ countries, and back home, all trekking the same distance. This is for a charity called Sport Relief, which helps the U.K.’s poor. The kicker is that when every country’s team has completed the circuit to their respective capitals, they then run a 10k all starting at the same time to determine winners, along with 1,000 participants in each country running alongside the celebs, all of whom have raised a minimum of £450. As for the athletes/celebs — they’ll need to be exceedingly fit to even finish. The riding leg from Edinburgh to Retford, for instance, covers 234 miles.

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