He added: “We’ve raised, I think, \u00a31,770 so far for the charity that we’re raising money for so it’s been awesome.”<\/p>\n
Conrad said they chose Pete’s Dragons because “one of my best mates, three-and-a-half-years ago, he decided to take his life and Pete’s Dragons was really helpful to his family in the aftermath of his death”.<\/p>\n
He said his friend Ben was a “larger than life character, a big yes man but he had his own mental battles”.<\/p>\n
He added: “He would definitely be very proud of what we’re doing and I’m sure if he was still around he would joining us for a big leg.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Luckily I’ve got a good support system. We all sort of rallied behind each other.<\/p>\n
“Everyone deals with it differently but no one should deal with it alone, he’s massively missed by a lot of people.” <\/p>\n
The charity was founded in 2010 by its chief executive Alison Jordan, after her younger brother Pete took his own life and works to support people in Devon who have experienced a bereavement by suicide. <\/p>\n
The charity said it was “honoured” the brothers were doing the journey to fundraise for them.<\/p>\n
Conrad added: “There’s still a long way left in the journey so hopefully that number can keep rising.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: “We’ve raised, I think, \u00a31,770 so far for the charity that we’re raising money for so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570528","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\/570528","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=570528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}