Extraordinary Copnor man to completes 321 mile hand cycle for Brain Tumour Research

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00:00Paul Smith has raised more than 2 million for charity over the last 5 decades and is

00:07currently on his last challenge of hand cycling from Mount Snowdon to Portsmouth.

00:14In 1991 I had a road traffic accident, someone was overtaking on a blind bend at night, hit

00:21me head on and I have a brain injury, I have spinal issues, shoulder, chest and numerous

00:32physical injuries.

00:34I've been fundraising for 48 years now and I always believe that there are people in

00:43the world that are worse off than myself and I feel that we should be helping them

00:53and helping brain tumour research in particular.

00:57I am taking on the challenge in memory of my grandmother, a good friend of mine Jenny

01:04Weller and another friend of mine Teresa.

01:09I'm out 100 miles a day most days, back to back, working hard up hills, everything, in

01:17all weathers, rain, we've had the heat, 29 degrees set off at 5 in the morning, not got

01:28back home until about 4 in the afternoon and it's just keep pushing myself knowing that

01:37the hills that we are going to face at the end of the month are going to be a challenge

01:44on their own.

01:58So Paul, how was the journey?

02:00Tough basically, some real big mountains to climb and hot temperatures, yesterday 32 degrees,

02:11it was a really tough day yesterday, we had the brake cable snapped as well and that happened

02:20earlier as well on Tuesday, so twice the brake cable snapped, it was as I expected, these

02:29are challenges, that's what they are and with the help of my crew we've succeeded,

02:36it pushed me to my limits, I know that.

02:38I'm proud of the guys and that because you can set these challenges but you can't always

02:45achieve them alone because there's people in this world that are worse off than me and

02:54I believe if you can help somebody, do it.

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