Gran and her dog riding 5000 miles around Britain's coastline
Maggie Scorer, grandmother of eight, is towing her dog Oscar around the entire coastline of Britain to raise money for charity
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A grandmother is a fifth of her way through her quest to cycle Britain’s coastline – with her dog in tow.
Maggie Scorer is riding the perimeter of the UK’s roads in the hope of raising £25,000 for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research and neonatal death charity Sands.
But she didn’t want to complete the epic challenge by leaving Oscar, her seven-year-old golden retriever, back at home in Suffolk.
So Scorer, who has eight grandchildren, is cycling between 6am and 3pm every day with her beloved dog behind her.
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“I wasn’t prepared to leave behind my dog so I thought that going by bicycle was the way to go,” she told The Press and Journal.
The pair have reached Aberdeen, 1000 miles from their starting point as they head west across the coast of Scotland and then south along the west coast and into the English border.
Scorer bemoaned the “relentless wind and of course the hills in Scotland aren’t too forgiving” but her overall enjoyment is matched by Oscar’s feelings. “Oscar loves it,” she said. “He just likes to sit in the back, look around, take it all in, and have a little bit of a snooze.”
You can follow Scorer and Oscar's progress via their Twitter account and via the www.dogontour.co.uk website.
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Chris first started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2013 on work experience and has since become a regular name in the magazine and on the website. Reporting from races, long interviews with riders from the peloton and riding features drive his love of writing about all things two wheels.
Probably a bit too obsessed with mountains, he was previously found playing and guiding in the Canadian Rockies, and now mostly lives in the Val d’Aran in the Spanish Pyrenees where he’s a ski instructor in the winter and cycling guide in the summer. He almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.
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