On October 23, Josh Cantrill will be getting ready for a trip he's made plenty of times before.
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Head out of Westmead hospital, pop onto the Cumberland Highway and onto the Great Western Highway back to Orange, where he and wife Alana live with their three children Hannah, 9, Harper, 4, and Judd, 2.
At least, Orange is where they live when Judd - who has a rare condition called Trachebronchomalicia causing airway and heart issues and malrotation of his stomach and intestine - isn't in hospital in Sydney.
However, Mr Cantrill's trip back to Orange will be anything but the same as what he's done before - this time, with 15 of his mates - he'll be on a bike instead of the driver's seat with the aim of raising $100,000 for Ronald McDonald House in Westmead.
"None of us are cyclists, we concocted the idea last year after doing the run up The Pinnacle and this year I thought we'd give it a crack at riding," Mr Cantrill said laughing.
"A lot of us haven't ridden bikes since we were teenagers and we've just been in training now."
He said the group had needed to buy bikes for the first times, and had a few stacks learning how to clip the shoes into road bikes, but with two weeks until the Tour de Blue Mountains they've already raised over $80,000, with a silent auction to come.
"It's phenomenal, it's huge. It's just so much money," Mr Cantrill said.
"I'm quite proud of the community for how much people are getting behind it. You wouldn't get this much support in a Sydney suburb or a bigger city, but everyone's all around it here."
He said fundraising and donating the money was the least the family could do after spending over 160 days at the Ronald McDonald House in Westmead over the past two years.
"The support we've received from there is phenomenal, Judd wouldn't had been able to recover and feel good as quick without it, every time we've gone down he's having his sisters, me and Alana there which brings some more normality to it," he said.
"When you're stuck in a hospital and you've got your sister there fighting with you it's more normal sitting there looking at nurses and doctors."
It doesn't just provide a benefit for Judd, either.
"If you've had a really tough day over at the hospital and you're really stressed, you don't have to worry about what's for dinner," Mr Cantrill said.
"You rock up to the house and have dinner cooked up and ready for you, always someone at the door to greet you and there's always someone to talk to."
He said he'd been training for three months or so, but joked some of his fellow riders and good friends had only hopped on the bike in the last fortnight.
"I'll be right but there might be a few people dragging us down," he said laughing.
Mrs Cantrill said the ride was also about getting the word out about "how much Ronald McDonald House does", and said the facility in Sydney was used nearly exclusively by regional and rurally-based children like Judd.
"They rely on community donations to keep their doors open 365 days a year," she said.
"A lot of treatment kids need is in Westmead, which is where we need to go."
To donate or find out more head to https://fundraise.rmhc.org.au/gws-rideforjudd.
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