Our last Truants ride was in Oct 2021 in the serious hills of Scotland. Mid pandemic we soldiered on up and down those hills in the wind and wet as Covid travel concerns had prevented us from taking on the planned ride in Argentina and Uruguay.
But now as things, at least in the medical world, are getting back to normality, our ride there is back on with a vengeance.
We set off soon on Jan 28th 2023 starting in Buenos Aires and looping through the city before heading up to the coast of Uruguay, crossing the border into Carmelo and on into Colonia before heading back to Buenos Aires to finish! It may not be Scottish wind, rain and mountains, but as I reach the ripe age of 73 next month, each kilometre starts to feel like 10! And there are over 180 of them in the 3 days.
With the children’s charities we support still being desperate for funding we are pushing to raise as much as we can to help those kids. Your support would be very much appreciated.
The Truants Foundation is now a registered charity (1191441) and we have to date donated just under Five Million pounds to Teenage Cancer Trust, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy and ChildLine NSPCC. Please help us reach that magic number and help kids who need support and assistance
Kindly note that all the Truants pay all their own expenses for the ride and everything related to it and that every penny, other than Race Nation fee of 2%, goes to the Charities
This fundraising page benefits the following good cause:
The Truants are off for our 9th ride to Argentina and Uruguay in January 2023.
As always, fundraising for this event will be donated via The Truants Foundation equally to 3 UK Children's charities: Nordoff Robbins, Childline and Teenage Cancer Trust
All costs related to the ride are paid for by the individual riders so that 100% of the money donated goes to the charities.
10 Oct
£100.00
"From your mates in the 7th Cavalry. Want to see you make this goal and next year as well"
14 Feb
£150.00
"Well done Rod (& the rest of the Truants)!"
14 Feb
£1,186.53
No message
12 Feb
"A tough ride — well done David & Barbara "
11 Feb
£51.00
"Nice one Rod."
07 Feb
"KEEP ON ROCKING!"
07 Feb
"Rod Smallwood you are amazing!"
04 Feb
£50.00
No message
02 Feb
£25.00
"Well done!!!"
02 Feb
£100.00
"Good luck Rod - wishing you well from the Judas Priest boys (and girl!)....Jayne x"
01 Feb
£1,000.00
"Wish I was there!"
30 Jan
£500.00
No message
30 Jan
£100.00
"Good luck with everything Rod! Best as always, Alan "
29 Jan
£30.00
"Good luck Rod and enjoy the awesome ride. Sally and Alex"
27 Jan
£100.00
Come on you Truants, every KM counts towards this worthy cause. Keep on peddling Rod, I'm sure there will be an Argentinian steak ... "Come on you Truants, every KM counts towards this worthy cause. Keep on peddling Rod, I'm sure there will be an Argentinian steak and bottle of Malbec waiting at the finish line, "
25 Jan
£500.00
"VAYA CON DIOS, AMIGO!"
24 Jan
£250.00
"Dear Rod, Enjoy the ride! My admiration for you taking on this ride again for such worthy charities is boundless! Patrick"
19 Jan
£100.00
"Good luck and have a safe ride"
18 Jan
"Back in the saddle again!!!!"
17 Jan
"Well done Rod - rather you than me!!"
17 Jan
£100.00
"Good luck! Great causes. James."
16 Jan
"There you go again Rod!"
16 Jan
£200.00
"Keep going, hopefully each year will not count for 10... you'd be as old as Azincourt :-) All best in gaucho land. JF"
16 Jan
£50.00
"Pump those legs !"
16 Jan
No message
15 Jan
"Fantastic! Keep going Rod"
15 Jan
£1,000.00
"Tear up them roads Rodney!!!!!"
15 Jan
"Rod: Well done once again. Congrats."
24 Oct
£600.00
"Good luck , thanks for San Diego, and hope to see you at Christmas for a drink before you start training David, Barbara & Co"
10 Oct
£250.00
"From Kathy- Good luck and lots of love. x"
29 Sep
£100.00
"Thanks Rod for all you do! Pam "