Preston buddies pedal 60 miles to the GIMAs...what a topping idea!
With temperatures in the 20s and 60 miles ahead of them, Barton Grange Garden Centre MD Guy Topping and Westland northern regional sales manager Simon Mullholland got on their bikes and started pedalling…all the way from Preston across the Pennines to Leeds to attend Thursday night’s GIMA Awards.
Both are keen cyclists, and with enthusiasts in the grip of Tour de France mania, the pair decided to undertake their own Tour du Nord well ahead of next year’s blue riband event, which will start in Leeds.
Around five hours later, they arrived, glowing, at the Yorkshire metropolis's Queen’s Hotel, venue for the GIMA Awards, and refreshed themselves with a couple of welcome ice-cold beers.
Simon is actually in training for a sponsored cycle ride across the Pyrenees for charity later this year – and Guy, who had just learned that Barton Grange was the top-scoring garden centre in the GCA's north-west region this year, felt he could do with some company.
