Rebecca Franco

My journey

Every year when I go down to the Rotaract park at Mareeba, I see the Cycle for Hope cyclists pull in and I see the camaraderie and the sense of belonging that they have together and it makes me grateful that they are cycling to support a cause which is Chaplaincy and which I know is such such a valuable service. Every year I’m also kind of a little bit envious of the sense of belonging that I can feel and I have thought one day I would really like to ride in this event although the distance was a little bit prohibitive. So when they introduced the shorter distance, I thought well why not have a go? Years ago I trained to do a full marathon and I was able to do it so the distance that I’ll be doing is double that marathon on a bicycle. How hard could it be right? So that’s why I thought well I’m gonna have a go this year. I also have a desire to get fit and this is a good goal to work towards for that particular desire so we’ll see how I go. I have been blown away by the support already. I have had offers of bicycles to use to train on as well I’m so grateful and thankful for the generosity and then also for the people that have generously donated already. I’m blown away and so grateful so watch this space? I’m gonna be training not too hard but enough to make sure that I’m not suffering through the event which my chaplain trainer has suggested as an important thing and I just want to honor God in all of this too. He’s the one riding with me in this journey of Chaplaincy and also riding with me as I cycle along and get prepared for this event so thank you everyone I’ll put some more posts up sometime soon.