Smiling for Smiddy Challenge
 MEMORIES of a young mate rode with cyclists on a 1600km road course between Brisbane and Home Hill last year.
Participants in the Smiling for Smiddy Challenge last September raised $25,000 for the PA Research Foundation to support cancer research at the Princess Alexandra Hospital to honour physiotherapist Adam Smiddy, who died prematurely through melanoma.
Challenge founder Mark Smoothy, who was one of three original riders to tackle the ride in 2006, admitted it was a gruelling eight-day test to reach Home Hill, Mr Smiddy’s north Queensland hometown.
‘‘But the camaraderie amongst the team and the common focus to help find a cure for cancer kept us going,’’ Mr Smoothy said.
‘‘Other riders helped push someone up a hill because it was mates helping out mates and that’s what remembering Smiddy is all about.”
More than 200 Queenslanders die each year from melanoma. We need to raise the awareness that it not only kills, but it kills the young. This is a not an older people’s cancer.
The 2010 event will be held in September for more information visit www.smilingforsmiddy.org.au
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