Jonathan Clark

This November, I’ll be riding the iconic Buderim 9 hills—nine steep climbs in just three hours. It’s a tough challenge, but I’m doing it to support The Pyjama Foundation, a wonderful charity that helps children in foster care thrive through learning, mentoring, and love.

Every pedal stroke is for a brighter future.

You can sponsor me and leave a message by clicking the Donate button above.

Thanks for backing this ride and helping us change lives—one hill, one child, one story at a time.

Update

08 Nov 2026

Plan A yesterday was to climb the Toowoomba Range via Flagstone Creek Road but a flat tyre thwarted that effort. Today was supposed to be a recovery ride but I climbed Mt Nebo instead - 70km, 1500m elevation, 3 hours. This week has seen 226km, 3150m elevation, 8hrs 45min riding. Next weekend will be a dress rehearsal for the big test.

Update

05 Oct 2026

Thank you to my Mum, Lily, Julie, Suzy, Barry, Luke, Sophia, Janine, Sally, Tunde, Jennifer and Grant and someone who shall remain anonymous for all your generous donations to Pyjama Foundation. Legends the lot of you! On Friday, I climbed the back of Mt Coot-tha 5 times - my best ever, with 1432m of elevation gain over a 62km ride. My total elevation gain for the month of September was 10,138m. There will be much more this month! I’m aiming to assist Pyjama Foundation with a target of $2000. For a deeper dive into today’s climbs… I went out to stay within Z4 power zone (ie keep it around 200 watts so that I would still be there on the 5th climb). The challenge on the 5th climb was to keep it above 200 watts and I managed to negative split it. Yay! Here are my times for the 5 climbs. 1. 13:09 2. 13:43 3. 13:45 4. 13:41 5. 12:33 And of course the image does not do justice to the incline!

Update

13 Sep 2026

Looking forward to the 9 climbs of Buderim Mountain for the Pyjama Foundation. Today I climbed Mt Coot-tha 4 times as part of my training to be able to climb Buderim. I reckon I have 8 climbs in me. 9 would be a fantastic bonus.

DONATIONS20

Margie Smythe

Tue, 10 Nov 2026

$ 10

Samantha Hughes

Tue, 10 Nov 2026

$ 20

Chris Turnbull

Tue, 10 Nov 2026

$ 50

Well done, Jonathan! Can't wait to see the final result.

$ 50

Miriam Boult

Mon, 9 Nov 2026

$ 20

Alyce Le

Mon, 9 Nov 2026

$ 20

Sandra JOHNSTONE

Sun, 8 Nov 2026

$ 50

Janine Harrison

Sun, 18 Oct 2026

$ 50

Tunde Dennehy

Sun, 4 Oct 2026

$ 50

Jenny and Grant Pendlebury

Sat, 3 Oct 2026

$ 150

Go well!

$ 150

Flora Clark

Thu, 24 Sep 2026

$ 50

Fundraising for

Pyjama FoundationThe Pyjama Foundation screen and train volunteers called Pyjama Angels who are matched with a child in foster care. They visit the same child every week, for 1.5 hours to read books aloud, play educational games and work on their numeracy skills.