Didcot veteran is handcycling for Help the Heroes

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Didcot veteran is handcycling for Help the Heroes Herald Series

A VETERAN who uses cycling to help overcome mental and physical health challenges is urging others to join her in the saddle and raise funds for wounded veterans.

Clare Gibson, 46 from Didcot, is a former Combat Medical Technician in the Royal Army Medical Corps and she is one of a team of six wounded veterans who are taking part in Help for Heroes’ new cycling fundraiser.

Fundraiser ‘Heroes Ride 200’ asks participants to ride 200 miles, individually or as a team, anywhere, and on any bike.

In 1999, Ms Gibson was deployed to Kosovo. Alongside working in the field hospital, she was part of a team tasked to exhume shallow mass graves and prepare the bodies to be re-interred.

Between now and the end of June, Ms Gibson and her fellow Heroes Team members will be telling their stories, sharing training tips and progress on social media which will be shared on Help for Heroes’ own social media channels.

Hannah Lawton, sports recovery manager at Help for Heroes, said: “Cycling is a great sport for anyone. The Heroes Team embody the amazing spirit of our cycling veterans and, as their assortment of hand bikes, recumbent trikes and upright bikes show, there is a bike to suit pretty much any impairment, making cycling one of the most adaptive sports there is. This is what has made cycling a core activity in the recovery of many of our veterans.


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