We woke up very excited about the prospect of reaching Paris and were anticipating a relatively straight forward day as it was meant to be our shortest yet. However once we got going in the early morning mist it didnt turn out to be so simple. Firstly we had a very narrow A-road to deal with, with huge lorries passing by inches from us - we could feel their vibrations. Then we had the issue of no flat roads, everyhing was up and down and up and down. We had agreed to meet our team mechanic 20 miles in after 2 hours but because we took so long he left and we ended up reaching the rendevous point after 3 hrs 45 mins meaning we were averaging 6.5 mph which was not going to get us to Paris before dark...
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Once we had overcome France's version of box hill zigzag Ann said ut was as tough, if not tougher) and played around on some hay....
...we then started to make steady progress and were soon leaving the country fields behindfor the rivers and the suburbs of Paris. We reached inner Paris by 5pm and were getting very excited about the prospect of reaching our destination. It wasnt in fact until 1.5hrs later that we made Iit to the arc de triomphe due to heavy rush hour traffic and traffic lights. When we finally got there we managed 5 laps in chaos (see video below) and then headed off down the champs elysses to the eiffel tower.
We had finally made it, 6 bikes, 5 cyclists, 4 days, 3 dead rabbits, 2 cities and 1 excellent support vehicle later. There were some emotional times at the eiffel tower as ann got out a photo of her dear friend Harry who passed away recently and we finished knowing we had put our bodies on the line raising a lot of money for such a worthwhile cause.
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...we then started to make steady progress and were soon leaving the country fields behindfor the rivers and the suburbs of Paris. We reached inner Paris by 5pm and were getting very excited about the prospect of reaching our destination. It wasnt in fact until 1.5hrs later that we made Iit to the arc de triomphe due to heavy rush hour traffic and traffic lights. When we finally got there we managed 5 laps in chaos (see video below) and then headed off down the champs elysses to the eiffel tower.
We had finally made it, 6 bikes, 5 cyclists, 4 days, 3 dead rabbits, 2 cities and 1 excellent support vehicle later. There were some emotional times at the eiffel tower as ann got out a photo of her dear friend Harry who passed away recently and we finished knowing we had put our bodies on the line raising a lot of money for such a worthwhile cause.
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