“I’ve never done a triathlon with a swim in the sea before,” he said.
The event was a sprint triathlon, with a 750m sea swim, a 23km ride along the top of the cliff and a 5k run along the seafront. Not all challenges provided moments of hilarity or misfortune, with Mr Radcliffe describing the Salty Sea Dog Triathlon in Bournemouth as “good fun”. Steve Radcliffe hiking (Steve Radcliffe/PA) “Every time I tried to go up a hill, my legs just cramped up again and I had to get off the bike and almost squat by the road until they released again so I could carry on.” “And I was just in agony for the last 10 miles,” he added. He said his toughest challenge was the Farnborough Flyer in September, which involves a 52-mile cycle ride which left him with cramps in the quads in his legs. “I had one of those slime tyres, which is supposed to prevent punctures, but what actually happened was that the inner tube exploded and I ended up with green slime everywhere – so that was amusing.” “I did a triathlon where the weather was so hot that my rear tyre exploded,” he said. Steve Radcliffe taking part in a 10k run (Steve Radcliffe/PA) “They were awesome, they were absolutely awesome,” he said.Īs he prepares for his final challenge to raise funds for the “fantastic” hospice, Mr Radcliffe said the path to this point has had its share of memorable moments, including an incident with an exploding tyre. He added that his wife needed “decent pain management” about a year before she died, which the hospice provided through a dedicated nurse who “looked after Janey and was there for her to call any time” until her death in November 2020 at the age of 48. “So at that point it was kind of end game, so we focused on making the time we had together as memorable as possible.”
“She had chemotherapy, radiotherapy and she had a mastectomy – we thought that she’d got through it, but about 10 months after she finished treatment, we found out that it had come back and it was already in her spine and in her liver.
Steve Radcliffe (right) with his late wife Janey (left) after her diagnosis (Steve Radcliffe) She was incredible,” he said during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. She just put her head down and got on with it. “Janey was diagnosed with cancer back in 2016. They have including four triathlons in Dorney Lake, Bournemouth and Newbury and a 52-mile cycle sportive in Hampshire, before he tackles Mount Kilimanjaro – the largest free-standing mountain in the world. Steve Radcliffe, 42, who lives in Camberley, Surrey, told the PA news agency that he decided to take on 13 sporting challenges between April and October to raise money for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, which supported his wife Janey. An aircraft support engineer hopes to complete his 13th challenge – climbing Mount Kilimanjaro – to raise money for the hospice that cared for his “incredible” wife during her final months with breast cancer.
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