Monday 30th

July 30, 2012
Hello again!
We're at our final campsite! Only 54 miles to go, safe to say, we're all pretty tired but thrilled that we've nearly completed our challenge.
Today we've had a bit of fun (keeping morale high close to the end) but having challenges... Russ would hide in the town and then the first person to him got a prize which they could either except or pass on - if they passed it on then they would have to accept the boobie prize instead, if not then they could nominate someone to accept the boobie prize. So far... Rich has got all the boobie prizes and is now cycling across France in fishnet tights, purple nail varnish and an inflatable stingray (callled Syd). He will have to keep theses items on until he reaches the Royal Oak in the UK tomorrow at 5ish - it keeps us smiling!
As we near the end of the trip we'd like to thank a few people: Russ - our standby(arabi) driver, without who we would not have been able to continue with the trip, John and Valarie - Who made the whole trip possible again with the payment for the van (from Kent hire) THANK YOU! Pearce cycles - who have donated and given us discount on parts as well as providing us with cycling jerseys, Step Out Training and Theropy - For buying the supplements that USN Energy suggested and finally Everyone who has supported and donated throughout the organisation stage and the trip itself.
Thank you all very much!
See you all soon!

From the France and Back Team
 

Friday 27th

July 27, 2012
HI!
So we're just outside Troyes at a nice campsite! We have a rest day to look forward to tomorrow before setting off on our last 3 days towards Calais. Currently Russ is doing Karoke... HAHAHAHAHAA. (he's not bad).
Today we've come from Dijon hitting a storm on the way, typically when we stopped and put coats on the rain stopped.
The further in to north France we go the smaller and smaller the hills become, which after our time in the alps is a nice change!  Apart from the storm today, the las...
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Tuesday 24th

July 24, 2012
Hi!
It's our rest day today after completing the Etape yesterday - man that was hard!
The first stint of the etape took us from Albertville to the bottom of the Col de La Madeleine which then ascended to 2000m over 24km. We all managed the top where we had a pizza and then started the decent to the bottom of the Col de Glandon, unfortunately as we began the climb we had a mechanical problem with one of the bikes and it meant that James was unable to continue on the climb today - he assisted in...
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Day 3 photos

July 24, 2012

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Update 21st July

July 21, 2012
Well here I am again to give you all the latest update.

Please may you all accept my appologies for the poor grammer on the previouse update, I was updating using my phone and this caused great difficulties, i.e. Arabi Driver = Standby driver........ but hey I now have a laptop so all is good....

Anyway I left you as the riders were heading to Anglare, this was for a quick rest and top up of their water bottles and at this point they were all feeling good and still smiling. The next part of the...
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new update, 18th July 14:00

July 18, 2012
well here is the latest update since setting of on the train from Folkestone to Calais yesterday lunch time. We drive from Calais to Noyon where the team took to their saddles for the first time riding the 20 mike journey to our camp site at Berny Riviere having now caught up from our delay of starting of one day. Today we were up at 6 am and left the camp site at 8am. The start of a long day, riding first to Cugny Les Crouttes and then on to Montreal. A distance of approx 50 mike. The team a...
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Saturday 14th

July 14, 2012
Hi!

We're just about ready for our big trip! Unfortunately there have been some problems that we've had to get around - Like my bike being stolen... But other than that and a few changes to the team we are all a little apprehensive but looking forward to our adventure.
Hopefully we'll be keeping you all posted each day (if we can) on our progress and adding photos where possible.
If you have any questions then please get in contact and we'll try to answer them :)

WISH US LUCK!!

From Izzy x
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