[Cyclefrance]

Afraid so.

Calais to Paris this year - pure madness - 220 miles in three and a half days. Website to come (god knows how long it will take this year!) but some photos to give you a flavour of what was on offer.... starting with....

Well, it was a puzzling start for some - I don't think he was reckoning on his bike having so much on the back - let alone the hills that followed( Ok so it's a downer I'm showing - but we had to get up there first!):

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