Tina Naganuma-Vilaca

Hiya! 💕😁 I'm cycling 45 miles (72km!!) to change young lives - from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle

On Sunday 5 October, I'll be taking part in Palace to Palace cycling 45 miles from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle and raising fund for the King’s Trust.

It's been probably over 15 years that I LAST cycled just any distance! 😦😧😨 WILL I MAKE IT? HELP!!!

The King's Trust helps young people bounce back and build bright futures with tailored support and practical skills.

After the pandemic and cost of living crisis, nearly 1 million young people in the UK are out of work, education, or training — but with the right help, they’re ready to rise.

Please help me to support The King's Trust by sponsoring my Palace to Palace cycle ride and sharing my page. Just a £20 donation -- or less, as much as you can afford! -- could provide a young person with something important to them, a contribution to an inspiring two hours of work experience in a stable job in a thriving sector for example!

Lots of love!!! ❤️💕 Many thanks in advance!!!

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Raised £300!

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Training through accidents, purple knee, sore muscles, broken gears, grease all over hands, 7km pushing broken-gear-bike, it's tough, so many things! 95km my weekly avg until gears snapped broken

Friday 12th Sep

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12SEP2025 Self-sponsoring is important!!! Just donated £100 now!!! Had donated £30 earlier... Keep training, through accidents, purple knee, sore muscles, broken gears, grease all over hands, 7km pushing broken-gear-bike, it's tough, so many things! 95km my avg until gears snapped broken...

You my friend, can help me!

Join me in this journey!! Donate! Every little helps!!! Anything you can afford https://events.kingstrust.org.uk/.../tin.../palace-to-palace

Am riding 72km, this is a lot, and you know me, I was never a bike-riding one! Please help me reach my target -- For young lives who after COVID times, are struggling with no option, to study, work, or be themselves, and add value! Am Riding to help them get back on their feet!

these photos before the snapping of gearbox... nearly forgotten the helmet!!!

12SET2025 Doar pra si mesma é importante!!! Acabei de doar £100, doei £30 antes... Continuo treinando, acidentes, perna roxa, músculos doendo, marcha estourada, graxa nas mãos, 7km empurrando a bici c marcha quebrada, punk, tanta coisa! 95km por semana, minha média até a bici quebrar...

Conto com você!

Vamos nessa comigo!! Doe! Qualquer ajuda é bem-vinda!!! O que puder pagar vale! https://events.kingstrust.org.uk/.../tin.../palace-to-palace

Estou pedalando 72 km no domingo 5 de outubro.

É muito, e você me conhece, eu nunca fui muito fã de bicicleta! Por favor, minha meta está longe, me ajude — entrei nesse desafio pelos jovens que, depois da COVID, estão lutando sem opção para estudar, trabalhar, ou serem eles mesmos, e agregar valor! Estou pedalando para ajudá-los a se reencontrarem!

essas fotos antes do acidente das marchas... já ia esquecendo o capacete!!!

#KingsTrust #Cognizant #youngpeople #jovens #PalaceToPalace #72kmchallenge #45milechallenge

🚴‍♀️ #13Aug2025 Tina’s Palace to Palace blog — Week 4️⃣

Wednesday 13th Aug

#13Aug2025 Tina’s Palace to Palace blog — Week

Made now three return trips to the office for work, tried the showers, and improving fitness…

Progress!! Well, slowly… and my list of

FIRSTs!!!

Sunday #27Jul25 Very-first bike ride in over 15 years, clocked 21km, avg speed 11kph. Easy.

Monday #28Jul25 First trip to work by bike, clocked 31km, avg speed 14kph. Stressful.

Saturday #02Aug25 First longer ride, 36.8km, avg speed 14.3kph, saw a king of deers at Richmond park!

Tuesday #05Aug25 First return-trip to work, yay! Got lost a couple times, stuck in traffic others, 28.91km in total

avg speed 14.3kph, a little more confident rider

Saturday #09Aug25 First training session on my new (also borrowed) bike, swapped for a road bike (see photo!) and it is so much better, even for me, an absolute beginner, it’s noticeably lighter and more efficient, avg 15.8kph, 25.8km!

Sunday #10Aug25 First two-day-in-a-weekend bike training, and clocked another 21.97km at avg 16.32kph!! So much easier in a road bike, many of you are saying “I told you!!!”

Tuesday #12Aug25 First trip to work in the “new” road bike, and 12.97km outbound, 13.91 inbound, a total 26.88km and both at avg 18.7kph, now even I’m getting more confident!

Tomorrow is another round-trip into work, my forth, and am looking forward, as the best of training, is what you achieve with regular exercise!

Join me, I’ll be riding #PalaceToPalace on Sunday 5th October, to support young people get back on their feet, with the #KingsTrust! Let’s do this #together!

If you can’t, or even if you decide to join in, consider donating here, it is for a great cause!

https://events.kingstrust.org.uk/.../tin.../palace-to-palace

Thank you for reading! Lots of love to all!

#PalaceToPalace #Cognizant #72kmChallenge #KingsTrust #Progress #CycleFitness

2-Aug-2025 Tina's Palace to Palace Blog — Week 2: Richmond Park Stag-Spotting, Hills & Watch Troubles (ง •̀_•́)ง

Saturday 2nd Aug

Highlights on Week 2 of training for my 72km Palace to Palace ride on 5th October! 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

A gorgeous long ride — over 36.8km of hilly and scenic route from Putney into Richmond Park! See tracked screenshot route!

Apple Watch only officially clocked 34km though. 😭 It decided to “steal” the first 10 minutes and 1.7 miles of my training session! At start of ride, time was ticking… With no route recording for 10min!!! 🤦‍♀️ Turns out watch started clock but not GPS. GRRR. 😤 Well I’ve now reset the calibration, ChatGPT says it will fix the issue — fingers crossed!!! 🤞

More on this ride: Hubby joined me, yay! 🧡 He swapped my bike saddle (check photo) before we started, great to have handyman around LOL... Then during the ride taught me the art of changing gears — not while powering pedals — and not-during-just-before that uphill grind, and led the way into Richmond Park, as again, even though I have some new gear as you will notice, I still don’t have the bike iPhone holder for my GPS!🙈

Hubby also spotted this majestic male stag in the park (photo)! Look at those antlers! Wonderful, right at the top of the steepest hill. We paused, I could recover, snapped a few, made my day!!!🥳❤️😍

Thank you all 🙏 for your support, I continue so weak, third day training is not much of a difference, and continue to welcome your hints and comments please!

With new saddle, sit-bone endurance became less of an issue😅 but not yet a confident rider, twice today I nearly fell, continue wobbly, especially on those hills! Hilly terrain so much more difficult than flat — And my 72km will have hills, must learn well how to change gears timely, and effectively…

Doing this ride for The King's Trust, as you know. They support young people rebuild their futures. Your sponsoring keeps me going.

Please donate — even the smallest contribution makes a difference. ❤️🙏

#PalaceToPalace #CycleTraining #RichmondPark #72kmChallenge #LearningToRideAgain #KingsTrust #CyclingWithPurpose #StagSpotting #GratitudeRide

📸 Check the photos, me, hubby, and the king of deers!

👉 Donate here https://events.kingstrust.org.uk/fundraisers/tinanaganuma-vilaca/palace-to-palace A BIG THANK YOU!!! ❤️❤️❤️

29-Jul-2025 Tina's Palace to Palace blog

Tuesday 29th Jul

Training has officially begun (❁´◡`❁) for my 72km cycling ride this 5th October — am pedalling, and 72km is scaring me... My motivation? Your unwavering support of our great cause, helping young people get back on their feet, with The Kings Trust.

Thank YOU: To all my supporters! Also deeply grateful to my kind generous and beautiful friend — will ask for her consent to mention her publicly 😉— who let me borrow her sturdy 18-gear-mountain bike, both for day challenge on 5th Oct, but also to train and get prepared. And there is a lot of training for me, who hadn't been on a bike for over 15 years!

First ride Sunday: 21km along the Thames Path, from #Putney to #VauxhallBridge and back. A beautiful scenic riverside route to kick things off. Note to self: Sunday, not the best weekday for cycling that path, loads of pedestrians, who are path-priority 🙂‍↕️

Second spontaneous (super wrong!) ride yesterday: Now this is where I have to self-control and rein in my enthusiasm! Contact from office, need to be here in person, of course, was WFH... Jumped on the bike, what could possibly go wrong? ... (🫣 so many things) GPS audio stopped working, got lost, verge of tears, a diversion of 10km wrong direction, too many cars, stopped so many times to check the way, lost again, eventually managed and arrived, a 31km super-stressful ride! Learn my lessons, spontaneous doesn't work for an inexperienced bike rider like me... Now am also very sore you know where...

Well in summary, a week at a time, building strength, especially sitbone endurance, yes will take time, but that training will boost my confidence — and with your help and support, I'm enjoying the journey.

#PalaceToPalace #BuckinghamToWindsorCastle #72km #45miles #CycleTraining #ThamesPath #FitnessGoals #KingsTrust

🙏Donate please: ❤️💕
https://events.kingstrust.org.uk/fundraisers/tinanaganuma-vilaca/palace-to-palace

🚴‍♀️Palace to Palace: 45 Miles, hopefully-a-not-too-wobbly cyclist, and a very determined yogie with endurance

Monday 21st Jul

So… I’ve signed up to cycle 45 miles (that’s 72km!!! Oh no!!!) from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle. Yes, on a bike😮. Yes, on roads😵. And no, I haven’t cycled in over 15 years. What could possibly go wrong?

Let’s rewind.

I’m a yoga-practicer, brisk-walker, stretchy-skandasana-holding kind of a person. I do vinyasa yoga three times a week, walk 90 minutes a day, pretty sporty I feel.

Cycling a whole different saddle, bike-handling skills are… let’s say, like me, “vintage” 🤣🤣🤣

Doing this for The King's Trust, who's known to support young people bounce back from tough times with skills, confidence, and drive.

Practically 1 million young people (aged 16 to 24) in the UK are out of work, education, or training. That’s not just a stat — that’s a generation that needs a boost.

So my cycling is for purpose.

🚨 Current Status:

Training: Mostly mental, but may go on a bike ride one of these days.
Fundraising: 20% of my £150 goal raised (yay!).
Bike: Still figuring out how to not fall off.
Motivation: High. Fear: Also high.

This ride won’t be easy. There will be hills, and sore muscles. There may be tears (hopefully just from laughter). But with your support — whether it’s a donation, a cheer, or a playlist of motivational bangers — I know I can do this.

💸 Please help?

Donate, share, or just inspire me your message saying “You’ve got this!”
Every bit of encouragement bound to help me push through the miles and keep me going.

Help me achieve this real-world impact. 🚴‍♀️👑

Thank you to my Sponsors

£100