SJ, Head of Sponsorships and four time London to Monaco rider interviews Arlo Brady, Chariman and a Trustee of Blue Marine Foundation.
morning are they morning how are you yeah I’m very well yeah you ready for your big ride I am yeah fourth year terrific well we’re really excited it’s gonna be the biggest year ever I think for this ride and we’ve done it for four years on the trot and we’ve raised more than a million pounds and we’re really hopeful this year to raise another half a million and to go towards some of our incredible projects so you have rode London’s Monaco for two years ago I haven’t really ridden all the way from London to Monaco I did the first stage of the ride which was quite enough for me it was really fun it’s a lovely write it’s a really enjoyable ride but it’s exhausting its elite it’s a surprisingly long way and the thing that shocked me the most is how hilly England is yeah the Kent hills are pretty surprising actually pretty steep but of course today we’re going down to Portsmouth although you do have an 845 metre climb I understand over the over the whole distance according to the brochure yes spread out is not too bad yeah but we’ve we’ve got time isn’t on our side this this yes we got to get down to Portsmouth and then get over to Plymouth catch the ferry to Santander very exciting the location of the UK’s first National Marine Park exact literally launched together with our partners on the weekend so Olli you’ve now become Blue’s new chairman which is incredibly exciting for us and I hope exciting for you it’s terrifically exciting is a great time to be chairman it’s out it’s our 10th year Blues been going for where it will be our 10th year blues been going for nine and a half years so 2020 is big year for us and there’s lots I think we want to achieve over the next decade of our evolution so and there’s lots of work ahead of us but it’s events like this that help us to raise the money that’s necessary to do all the good work that we’ve got in the in the plant