Kelly Shrimpton started her "31 Ks for 31 Days" challenge yesterday with a group ride from Cyclezone. Photo / Ben Fraser
Kelly Shrimpton admitted to being a bag of nerves before she went out on her bike yesterday.
The group ride marked day one of her "31 Ks for 31 Days" challenge to raise $10,000 for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand in memory of her partner Nick Bolton, who died
from cancer. The 34-year-old is planning to ride 31km every day for the 31 days of October and yesterday set out for a ride with about 20 others in the Whakarewarewa Forest.
"I'm quite nervous," she said. "But I've done all the training so I feel pretty confident. I'm quite sure of my ability to do it but it's unknown at the same time."
She was inspired to do the "31 Ks for 31 Days" challenge during a mountain bike ride in June on what would have been her late partner's birthday.
Miss Shrimpton and Mr Bolton, who was English, were together for about a year. They met in Rotorua and in 2006 they went to Dublin after Mr Bolton's work visa ran out.
