Girl learns to ride and hits 100-mile charity goal

Abigail Sired and her daughter Evie would sometimes take on 10 miles at a time during the August challenge

An eight-year-old girl has completed a 100-mile (160-km) cycle challenge despite only learning to ride in July.

Evie, from March in Cambridgeshire, completed the August challenge to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society charity.

She finished the challenge on Sunday and said that, although she was "a bit scared at first" and had one "big fall", she managed to raise almost £700.

Her mum Abigail Sired said: "At the beginning of the six-week holiday it was our goal to get Evie to ride a bike and she managed it within 15 minutes of going up and down my mum's road."

The challenge was originally Evie's idea, said Ms Sired

Despite the big fall, and sometimes battling the wind and rain, Ms Sired said her daughter "made a commitment and saw it through" carrying out rides of up to 10 miles at a time to reach her goal.

"I have posted updates on my Facebook and there's a photo up there of us both drenched and Evie crying her eyes out while biking down the road," she said.

"I'll give her credit - although she's crying she is still cracking on and doing it... for an eight-year-old, that's amazing."