Ill-prepared. The one word I'd use to sum up my approach to this adventure. Given that training has proved fairly impossible due to the lack of a local Rickshaw school in Rotherhithe (there's a fairly niche market), preparations have taken the form of.... well, they haven't. I've bought gaffe tape and bungees and a couple of pairs of 'conservatively' coloured board shorts. What more is needed?

The Rickshaw Run - How could I turn down such an offer?!

With only a couple of weeks spare before I start a new job at home I could not have anticipated a better way to spend this time than risking life and limb in the name of charity and adventure!

I guess I've been lucky enough to see a rather diverse array of places, people and cultures across the world even until now being only in my early twenties.

Over the past years I've spread my wings from the UK, across to our neighbours on the European continent. I've journeyed on rickety buses through South America, ridden motorbikes through South East Asia, endured 'retro' campers through Australia, taken buses through NZ and crammed in to packed cars in the US of A. All of these journeys have offered their own fascinating adventures along the way that every one should have a chance to experience.

With a daunting but infinitesimally exciting episode waiting to be written, India will surely be tremendously memorable. For what, I can as yet only begin to imagine, as the Tukkenham Hotspurs set off with only 7 horsepower between them and the open road!

Shubh Kaamnaayein (Good Luck!) Tukkenham Hotspurs!