Recently, 32 year 10 and 11 pupils from Denbigh High School started pedalling continuously over a 24 hour period for charity.
Eight pupils from each house took it in turns to cycle for 20 minutes on spin bikes for Help For Heroes (Aled) £1,040.74, Cancer Research UK (Brenig) £1,049.44, Make a Wish UK (Clwyd) £1,106.98 and Sports Relief (Elwy) £637.98 raising an astonishing £3,835.14.
By 5am Denbigh High School pupils had smashed the original goal of cycling 874 miles from Lands End to John O’Groats by over double, achieving a staggering 1953.2 miles by the end of the 24 hours. The eight pupils from Team Clwyd contributed the largest proportion of mileage by covering 522.9 miles in 24 hours.
Teachers and supporters were amazed by one pupil’s efforts; Elizabeth Ward from Team Aled achieved a staggering 75.8miles in her allocated 3 hours.
Elizabeth said: “I wanted to do it for Help for Heroes as my Dad and Brother are in the Army. My 4am cycle was definitely the worst 20 minutes; I just had to keep my head down and peddling as fast as I could”.
Denbigh High School would like to thank Royden Healey from Ruthin Tristars for training the pupils, The Brookhouse Mill, Denbigh for kindly donating supper and lunch for the cyclists and Denbigh Leisure Centre for the use of the spin bikes.
