Daughter completes dad’s bike challenge after his death

The pair had to brave the elements, with Storm Ashley hitting on the final day of cycling.

Recalling a particularly grueling section of the route along the Scottish coast, Ms Oakley-Stafford said: “It was absolutely physically exhausting for us. It was absolutely terrible.”

She said they managed to find a closed pub to take shelter in after the owner saw them knocking on the window.

“They opened up just for us to give us coffee so we could dry off and escape the storm for a while.”

“It wasn’t safe to continue cycling and on Sunday evening we still had 18 and a half miles to go, which was quite difficult to do,” she said.

Instead, the pair were forced to continue the challenge on Monday and return to Yorkshire after midnight and work the next day.

“It just made me even more amazed and in awe of what he was doing,” she added.

The family, Mrs Oakley-Stafford, her sister Emma, ​​35, and stepmother Jo, have raised their fundraising target for Cancer Research UK from a “modest” £2,000 to £20,000 and, at the time of writing, have raised more than £16,500.

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