Ashley Cain’s Ultraman 2024 challenge will see him at the ‘special place’ in Coventry this weekend.

Ashley Cain’s ‘Ultraman’ challenge will bring him to Coventry this weekend. The Nuneaton resident is embarking on an epic three-month ‘world first’ challenge – running, cycling and kayaking across the country three times.

Having completed the running leg, he is now on to the first cycling part of the challenge – going down to Lands End, before kayaking back to John O’Groats. As part of this, on Sunday (June 2) his cycle will bring him to the outskirts of his hometown.

He will call in the Coventry Building Society Arena – a venue that has special meaning for him as he is a former Sky Blues player. It is also where he hosted a celebrity football match last year in aid of the charity he and his former partner Safiyya Vorajee set up in their daughter’s name.

Little Azaylia captured the nation’s heart as she bravely battled acute myeloid leukemia and sadly passed away in 2021 aged just eight months. They established the Azaylia Foundation in her name to help other children battling cancer.

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So far in his challenge he has raised more than £70,000 for the foundation’s Doctoral Scholarship Fund, which aims to support new doctors and new research into childhood cancer. This funded five doctorates at the University of Oxford and the nearby University of Birmingham, where Azaylia was treated.

But his mission is to raise enough funds to pay for 20 doctors during the 3,000-mile “Ultraman” challenge. The local stage will bring him to the CBS Arena on Sunday, between 6 and 7 p.m

He is set to be greeted by friends and family and members of the local community are invited to turn up and cheer him on at the arena site.

Donations can be made to the challenge via a GoFundMe page here

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