1. Deloitte Ride Across Britain 2016
Riding for Life
Deloitte Ride Across Britain 2016

2. You’re just a Silly Old Man
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
[George Bernard Shaw]

3. Stats
9 days
976 miles
Average – 110 per day
Longest day – 127
58,000 ft of climbing
[Twice up Everest!!]
13 times up Ben Nevis

5. Finishing the Course
Currently over £8,000

6. Cheddar Gorge
Day 2

7. Shap Fell – day 5

8. More is in You

9. Greater is He that is in You than he that is in the world – The Spirit of God

10. “Superhuman Alastair Simmons…who is astonishingly 68”

11. A miktam of David.
[16:1] Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.
[2] I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 
[5] LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
[6] The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
[7] I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
[8] I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

12. [9] Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
[10] because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
[11] You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

13. Miktams of David
Psalms 56,57,58,59,60
Psalm 16
Silent Prayer

14. The Lord of Life – My Life [1-8]
The Lord of Death – My Death [9-10]
The Lord of Eternity – My Future[11]

15. The Lord of Life – My Life [1-8]

16. “I have served in the ministry thirty years, almost thirty-one
“I have served in the ministry thirty years, almost thirty-one. I have come to understand that there are two kinds of faith. One says if and the other says though. One says: “If everything goes well, if my life is prosperous, if I’m happy, if no one I love dies, if I’m successful, then I will believe in God and say my prayers and go to the church and give what I can afford.” The other says though: though the cause of evil prosper, though I sweat in Gethsemane, though I must drink my cup at Calvary—nevertheless, precisely then, I will trust the Lord who made me.

17. So Job cries: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him
So Job cries: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.” In another of the great psalms David sings: “Though the waters roar and swell, and though the mountains be cast into the midst of the sea. . . the Lord of hosts is with me, the God of Jacob is my strength.”
[George Everett Ross]
“Well if the worse comes to the worst Alastair, you’ve had a good life”
[A Young Pastor]

18. 2. The Lord of Death – My Death [9-10]

19. 3. The Lord of Eternity – My Future[11]