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Ben Lidgey
10  year  Mo Bro
official ambassador

£3,985

Target: £885
raised £5,913 since 2011
My motivation
Fundraising for cause areas including:
Men's health
Testicular cancer

10 years ago Movember helped to save my life by giving me the courage to talk about a lump that turned out to be testicular cancer. The quick diagnosis meant surgery sorted it without the need for chemo or radiotherapy.

My mental struggles continued unknown to me for ages. Eventually my wife persuaded me to talk about it with a counsellor, helping me to come to terms with the impact it had on me, and recognise the effect it had on my friends and family too.

We all need to support each other and raise awareness of men's physical and mental health issues. Movember helps us all to do that in our own ways.

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0 of 8848 metres
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Everyone has a mountain to climb, and to raise awarenes of the support Movember can provide in overcoming our own mountains, I will be cycling up the equivalent height of Mount Everest.
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21 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
BACKBASE B.V.
£3,985
21 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
BACKBASE B.V.
£3,985
Previous year's donations
29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Gillette Donation
£10

Thanks for supporting Movember this year. Heres the donation you won from Gillette when playing the spin the wheel.

Previous year's posts
29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Gillette Donation
£10

Thanks for supporting Movember this year. Heres the donation you won from Gillette when playing the spin the wheel.

Previous year's posts
29 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

The update from work is 120 Backbasers participating in the Strava Movember challenge (about 10% of total Backbasers, pretty cool!), a total of 5361km was covered in a variety of different ways of exercising. This is the equivalent of around 127 marathons!

We ALSO climbed 30,339 metres! :Which is the equivalent to climbing Everest 3 times, OR about 100 times the Eiffel Tower!

29 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

The update from work is 120 Backbasers participating in the Strava Movember challenge (about 10% of total Backbasers, pretty cool!), a total of 5361km was covered in a variety of different ways of exercising. This is the equivalent of around 127 marathons!

We ALSO climbed 30,339 metres! :Which is the equivalent to climbing Everest 3 times, OR about 100 times the Eiffel Tower!

29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
£20

Keep inspiring.

29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
£20

Keep inspiring.

29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Jason Harris
£10

Great work Ben!

29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Jason Harris
£10

Great work Ben!

29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Ian Drewett
£62

Great effort Ben! All the best Ian

29 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Ian Drewett
£62

Great effort Ben! All the best Ian

Previous year's activities
30 Week(s) Ago
I ran 5361 km541:45:53

120 people at Backbase completing all sorts of exercise over the month!

30 Week(s) Ago
I ran 5361 km541:45:53

120 people at Backbase completing all sorts of exercise over the month!

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

Stephen Law-Lyons has done some amazing fundraising for Movember this month. we've been chatting about it on this ride. Look him up and see, he is an inspiration

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

Stephen Law-Lyons has done some amazing fundraising for Movember this month. we've been chatting about it on this ride. Look him up and see, he is an inspiration

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

currently halfway up Ventop in a little group ride chatting about random stuff, approaching the 10000m mark.

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

currently halfway up Ventop in a little group ride chatting about random stuff, approaching the 10000m mark.

30 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 1562 m02:59:00

Final climb to Ventop, 46.8km distance. Met my 10000m goal too!

30 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Edward Rothwell
£10

Smashed it!

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

Tomorrow is the last day of Movember and it has been a momentus one (see what I did there?).

I am hoping to finish with a ride on Zwift up to the top Ventop of 1500m and end on a high (see what I did there again?) and complete 10000km of climbing in the month. Hopefully I will feel OK to do that tomorrow as I had my Covid booster yesterday and am feeling a bit sore from it, but it is far, far better to stay safe and healthy.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Movember and me, and thank you to everyone who is looking after themselves and checking up on their mates. Stay safe, ride up!

30 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 301 m00:56:00

Roule ma Poule, distance 32km as a sort of recovery ride. Ended up getting into a nice group pelaton and going quite quickly

30 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

This evening I made it to the summit of my Movember Everest challenge. I am on top of the world to have made it and have another challenge to see if I can make before the end of the month (watch this space).

I hope I have inspired people to think about men's health, look out for each other. Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of my cancer diagnosis and I am grateful that I found the lump in my balls when I did as it was an easy fix and I am still here to spend time with my friends and family.

Ride on everyone, stay safe, look after yourself and each other.

30 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 836 m01:30:00

Watopia Radio Tower, Volcano KOM and Volcano circuit, 43.7km distance

31 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 301 m00:41:00

Watopia Hilly loops, 21.6km distance

31 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

So far this Movember I have spent 19 hours cycling, covered 486km and climbed 7731m in elevation. I am nearly at the top of Everest, onlu 1117m to go and 1 week to do it in!

31 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 459 m01:06:00

Zwift rides in Neokyo and Watopia totalling 29.3km distance

31 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Mitchell Reynolds
£15

Good luck Ben! I hope you can smash through the last week or so!

31 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 350 m01:08:00

Zwift temples and towers. 35.6km distance

31 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
£40
31 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Sandy Duggan
£25
31 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

I have been mashing out the metres again this weekend in my challenge to climb Everest for #Movember, and so far got to 6922m. Makes me think that somewhere in the world a man dies of suicide every 60 seconds. Look after each other.

31 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 800 m01:29:00

Zwift NYC Rising Empire twice, 45km distance

31 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 854 m01:46:00

Tried some of the new Zwift routes, 49.5km distance

32 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 409 m00:57:00

Kappa Quest Reverse, 23.2 km

32 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Edward Rothwell
£10

Awesome work Ben! Keep it up!

32 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

Here I am, halfway through the month, halfway up Everest.

33 Week(s) Ago
Ben Lidgey

This week hasn’t been the productive set of rides I had planned. But I have climbed the equivalent height of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) and so crested the highest mountain in Wales and England. It goes to show that despite the best plans, with some inspection and adaptation and a dose of determination you can still achieve some results. I am not on track for where I wanted to be ideally but happy that I am making progress.

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