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Edmund Doyle<\/p>\nLee BottomleyWest Midlands<\/p>\n
Edmund Doyle<\/p>\n
Edmund Doyle took on the challenge to help men’s mental health services after his own struggles<\/p>\n
A man has cycled solo from Cheshire to China to raise funds for a mental health charity.<\/p>\n
Edmund Doyle, from Weston, near Crewe, set off on 11 June on his dad’s old mountain bike and arrived at Horgos, Kazakhstan, on the Chinese border, on 28 October.<\/p>\n
He was inspired by a YouTube video of a Brit riding home from Shanghai. “I still can’t quite believe I did it,” stated Mr Doyle, who said there were so many moments he had to remind himself that it was not a dream.<\/p>\n
So far he has raised almost \u00a35,000 for Mental Health Foundation, and said doing it for a cause so close to home after his own mental health challenges had kept him going on the hardest days of the 11,000km trip.<\/p>\n
During the ride, he faced illness on the Montenegro border, and violent storms in Georgia, as well as several mechanical failures, including a broken derailleur during the final stretch of the challenge.<\/p>\n
He said what made the journey even more powerful, and helped him through, was the kindness of people along the way.<\/p>\n
“From families inviting me into their homes to strangers helping fix my bike in the middle of nowhere, people showed me generosity I’ll never forget.<\/p>\n
“It changed how I see the world – it’s a far kinder place than we’re often told.”<\/p>\n
Mr Doyle said he was especially proud to have completed his challenge to support men’s mental health, knowing how difficult it can be to speak up.<\/p>\n
“If this journey helps even one man talk about what he’s going through, or feel a little less alone, then every mile was worth it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You don’t have to cross continents to face what you’re dealing with – but you do have to take that first step, he said.<\/p>\n
“Or in my case, turn that first pedal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee BottomleyWest Midlands Edmund Doyle Edmund Doyle took on the challenge to help men’s mental health services after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-331201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}