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title: "Two weeks to go – 100 miles on the bike for Action Medical Research"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2009/05/03/two-weeks-to-go-100-miles-on-the-bike-for-action-medical-research/
description: "Consultant and fractional COO for scale-up businesses. I help founders, leaders and investors in scaling businesses create sustainably high performing organisations."
published: 2009-05-03T20:50:07+00:00
modified: 2026-04-11T16:25:04+00:00
author: Simon Wakeman
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# Two weeks to go – 100 miles on the bike for Action Medical Research

## Two weeks to go – 100 miles on the bike for Action Medical Research

It’s just fourteen days until I tackle the [Castle 100 ride](https://www.simonwakeman.com/2009/04/15/cycling-100-miles-for-action-medical-research/) to raise money for [children’s charity Action Medical Research](http://www.action.org.uk%20).  
One of the main areas of Action’s work is investigating premature births – each year in the UK around 50,000 babies are born too early. Every week more than 25 babies die as a result of complications arising from premature birth – premature birth is the single biggest cause of death among infants under one year old in the UK.

[Watch the video on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/v/Ls2Vv3_B7_E&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0)

If you’d like to sponsor me to help raise money for this important research, you can do it online [here](http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/simonwakeman).  
Thank you to those of you that have already sponsored me offline and online (the total on my sponsorship page doesn’t yet include the offline money raised).