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Page Creator: Mark Simmonds
Event: The Great Ride for Heart 2010
Event Date: 1/2/2010

In the first two weeks of February I will be joining a group of cardiologists and health professionals, trading in our white coats for bike pants and beginning an epic cycle ride that will cover the length of New Zealand.

Our aim is to boost awareness of heart disease prevention and help raise $1 million for the Heart Foundation's Cardiovascular Research Fund.
Every cent we raise will go directly towards an essential chair in new preventive heart health research at the University of Auckland, which will benefit All New Zealanders.

Along the way we will engage with locals and stage fundraising events in selected towns to raise awareness of heart health from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
I need your support to complete my mission of fundraising $XXXXX myself!

I'll do all the hard work (train for and complete the ride), but I really need you to make a difference to the hearts of New Zealanders.

Please could you sponsor me?

Select the "Make a donation" button below. It's simple, fast and totally secure and the money goes directly to the Heart Foundation's bank account.

If you live in New Zealand your donation is tax deductible and a receipt will be issued.

So please help me today! And pass it on to your family and friends! The future heart health of every New Zealander depends on it

Many thanks for your support


My Online Sponsors To Date:
Date Name Amount Comment
23/2/2010 Jane and James Higgie $50.00 Huge effort for a great cause. Well done Mark !
23/2/2010 wayne McShane $20.00 Mark Simmonds can not afford to lose anymore weight!
23/2/2010 Jo and Mike $100.00 Well done Mark fantastic effort!Sorry we missed you when you came through Auckland.
22/2/2010 Kate Garmonsway $40.00
22/2/2010 Derek Mark $100.00 Well done Mark!!!
19/2/2010 Vicki $100.00 Best wishes from Ian and Vicki
18/2/2010 Ross Dysart $100.00 Well done Mark
17/2/2010 Dennis Smith and Teresa Sammut $200.00 Congratulations Mark - what a superb effort. Many thanks, also, for all your sterling efforts over the years for Dominion Clinic.
15/2/2010 Shona Paxton $10.00 Well done!!! If wasn't 7 months pregnant I would have done the ride with you all!!!
15/2/2010 Virginia Ng $50.00 Mark, what a fantastic ride. Thanks for your recent care of my father.
15/2/2010 Greg Shearer $100.00 Great stuff Simmo - well done !
14/2/2010 josie and paul $250.00 you are like lance armstrong but more handsome and bigger in the thigh area
14/2/2010 Annette King+Ray Lind $200.00 Mark you are an outstanding leader in cardiac care. Keep those wheels turning!
14/2/2010 David Donald $100.00 Already on contact list.
14/2/2010 Sarah, Phil and Rory $250.00 What a great ride Mark, I will also through in a bottle of self tanning lotion to fill in the white bits!!
13/2/2010 lance day $500.00 congratulations your epic feat is now in the annals of family folk lore, no bluff
13/2/2010 Joanne Shirer $50.00 Well done Mark
13/2/2010 phil leadbitter $25.00 Go Mark. Hope you havent run out of your Pawpaw ointment!
"Pain is inevitable, suffering optional"
13/2/2010 Andrew Mortimer $100.00 Penny said I was being too
tight
13/2/2010 Nicki & Kaye $100.00 Onya Mark.
13/2/2010 Andrew Mortimer $100.00 Well done Mark..enjoy work on Monday
12/2/2010 Alan Lawton $100.00
12/2/2010 Tony Peterson $250.00 Well done Mark. I hope that you get some decent weather.
12/2/2010 The Gibbos $100.00 You're amazing Mark! Full of admiration!
12/2/2010 Bob & Wilma $100.00 What a great thing you're doing. Best of luck
12/2/2010 Tim O'Meeghan $100.00 Best wishes and well done
12/2/2010 nothing $50.00 Hi Mark, seems like a cheerful way to get fit, go for it.
11/2/2010 Richard and Bunky $100.00 Go Simmo- hows your ask me no questions- did you pass Ferrar on the Coast to Coast?
11/2/2010 Elizabeth and Mike Lynch $25.00 What an amazing effort! Thanks for being a wonderful heart Doctor and setting such a good example to all your patients.
10/2/2010 Wgtn Cath Lab MRTs $40.00 The lengths some people will go to for a great cause! We are proud of you. Keep it up - you're nearly there.
10/2/2010 Jo Coughlan $25.00
10/2/2010 Brows $200.00 Impressive effort for a great cause - go Mark!
9/2/2010 Chris and Pam Horrocks $100.00 All the best for the rest of the race. Hope you are having a good time!
9/2/2010 Rachel and Paul $250.00 You are a legend. Awesome effort!
9/2/2010 The Chandler's $150.00 well done Mark and keep up the fantastic work
9/2/2010 Murray Leikis $50.00 Fantastic effort. Well done
9/2/2010 Ken Davis and Rose Evans and Patience Davis $150.00 Go Simmo
9/2/2010 Peter & Pauline Eales $100.00 Mark, thanks for your great work and it's our privilege to donate to your very worthy cause.
8/2/2010 The Edmonds $100.00 Good work Mark. All the best for the rest.
8/2/2010 Jenny Newby-Fraser and Terry Grimmond $100.00 Happy to help you with such a great cause - from a Zipper club family.
8/2/2010 Bike Fixation $25.00 Hope the Icon's treating you well, and the rest of the ride goes smoothly. Great effort!
8/2/2010 andrew brant $50.00
7/2/2010 David Ritchie $100.00 Unbelievable undertaking. Go, Go, Go. Congrats.
7/2/2010 Ginny and Morry $200.00 We promise to give Maddy babysitting to pay her debt! Hope you don't have a megasauras!! Keep up the amazing effort.
7/2/2010 Kerrie Hayes and Vicky Noble $70.00 All the best from both of us. Fantastic effort!
7/2/2010 Michael Crooke $100.00 Great effort. Golf must be easier
5/2/2010 The Lowe's $250.00 When it starts to hurt close your eyes(but not for too long) and think of France. Stay strong.
5/2/2010 The McCaws $100.00 Such a great thing to do Mark. How's the bum?
5/2/2010 Bill Bennison $100.00 awesome project for a great cause- chances are we all have a vested interest in your success!
5/2/2010 Paul French & Ann Pairman $200.00 Go Simmo Go. Keep peddling you good thing!
5/2/2010 Mary Day $100.00 Well done on progress to date, keep up the good work, please take care.
5/2/2010 Mary Day $100.00 Well done on progress to date, keep up the good work, please take care.
4/2/2010 The Wellington's $100.00 Go Mark, we're right behind you :)
4/2/2010 Madeleine Simmonds $25.00 Hey Dad keep it up, thinking of you all the time! By the way im using your credit card right now but i'll pay you back with babysitting money..:)
3/2/2010 Mike K $25.00 Does a red jersey replace the yellow jersey in this case? All the best for your ride.
2/2/2010 Marg, Josephine, Gina CMU $25.00 Good on you - you are our hero
1/2/2010 The Mortimers $200.00 We too are in awe and admiration Mark.
What about a Dunedin visit next time?
1/2/2010 Jonno $25.00 Good luck for the ride Mark!
1/2/2010 Ann Boland $25.00 I hope the road and the whether is kind to you. Best wishes
1/2/2010 Chris Murphy $25.00 Fantastic effort. Enjoy the ride.
1/2/2010 Raffat Shameem $200.00 Way to go Mark - Go Well!! From one who can't even ride a bike!
1/2/2010 Joanna Delahunty $25.00 I imagine riding 170km/day will be easier than being at work for 2 weeks. Stay safe
31/1/2010 John Wyeth $50.00
29/1/2010 Stuart Mossman $100.00 Rather jealous I am not coming but Ken asked me to hold the fort. Watch the wheel in front. Break at the bottom of the hills and keep eating.
29/1/2010 Marion Leighton $25.00 Good luck - hopefully you'll both be too exhausted to trump us in the next triathlon!
29/1/2010 John Bell $100.00 You've added 15 years to my life to date. Hope this helps to save others.
29/1/2010 Scott Harding $100.00 Good on you Mark
28/1/2010 Barry Mahon $250.00 A great effort for a worthy cause. Hope you enjoy it.
26/1/2010 Andy Tie $100.00 Great show Mark, enjoy it.
26/1/2010 Phil Matsis $250.00 Go Team Wellington!
25/1/2010 Clive & Iyanthi - Xponential NZ $50.00 Great work. We'll be cheering you on all the way!
22/1/2010 The Waalkens $200.00 Good luck Mark. Have a great time and we will see you in Auckland.
17/1/2010 Jenny Shipley $500.00 This grateful patient very much appreciates the effort you are making to raise Heart Health awareness!
15/1/2010 Tim Lethbridge $100.00
15/1/2010 Taylor-Smith's $100.00
15/1/2010 Blacks $100.00 in awe and admiration…
12/1/2010 speight (2) $250.00 Great effort good weather and a fun ride
11/1/2010 David & Brenda Speight $100.00 Well done Simmo
11/1/2010 Tom $100.00 Go Simmo!
11/1/2010 Stewart Mann $250.00 Go for it. See you on Feb 7th
21/12/2009 John Riordan $1,000.00 Great work for a great cause
19/12/2009 The Roberts $100.00
14/12/2009 Drew Baty $100.00
Total Raised Online: NZD$10,630.00
Total Raised Offline: NZD$11,950.00
GRAND TOTAL: NZD$22,580.00
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Fundraising Progress

My fundraising progress so far:

100% achieved

My Goal: NZD$100.00
I've Raised: NZD$22,580.00
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