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13 days ago, a group of 70 riders headed to Lake Geneva - Evian to embark on
another journey for Leuka Cancer Charity. Amongst us was a surviving cancer patient from Hammersmith Hospital. What happened during the next nine days was truly epic and harder than anything I could have ever imagined, despite completing the ride in 2007. The descent of the Col d'Iseran, in -15 deg icy roads and blizzard on 3 day was a tough call, i still don't know how i got down without crashing, brakes frozen, cleats frozen, fingers numb, i was shivering so much the bike wobbled all the way, about 15km descent to the next village where we found shelter..
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anyway, that was the lowest point. the highest point was my descent off the Cormet de Roseland 20km in 25 mins max speed recorded 57mph! (day 2)
Also the Balkon road from Alpe d'Huez to Le Grave was stunning (day 4), the climb and descent of Cime De La Bonnette, the night time descent of Turini to Sospel where we saw the Fireflies lighting up the road, with there tiny bright green flashes (day 7)
And finally the legendary parties in Cannes over the past 3 days, which made up for all the hardships, and we topped our £1million target for Leuka..
Al