A HAUGHTON Green boy has proved he wheely is something else by completing a charity challenge by riding the length of Hadrian’s Wall in just four days at the age of nine!
Joel Nugent has raised almost £1,500 for the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust after his friend Libby was treated at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital for leukaemia.
The St John Fisher Primary School pupil decided to get in the saddle and tackle the
174-mile course over the jubilee bank holiday weekend.
And proud mum Liz, who lives on Rivermead Road, was blown away at how routine her son made it look.
She said: “Normal nine-year-olds don’t say they’re going to ride Hadrian’s Wall but Joel’s really into his cycling.
“And I can’t believe how much money we’ve raised. I put a target of £250 but the response has been amazing.”
Joel, who cycles with Mossley Cycle Racing Team, was joined by Liz and younger sister Florence, five, on an electric bike.
His grandmother, Angela Oldham, also joined in along with auntie Gillian Charnock
After setting off from Ravenglass in Cumbria on June 2, he arrived in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, o June 5 after seemingly pedalling into a never-ending wind and amazing his mother.
Liz added: “Joel was on a normal bike and I still couldn’t keep up with him – he was powering on in front of me and I was on an electric one!
“What he’s done is amazing but what he doesn’t realise is not everyone can do that. He just thinks it’s normal.
“And it didn’t matter which direction we were cycling in, the wind was in our face.”