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The Real Tour of France & Spain! 

 On Friday the 14th of June 2013, 11 local cyclist are setting off on an epic 1000 mile ride from Roscoff in France to Santander in Spain. Masterminded and organised by Craig Powell and wife Emma Sargent and joined by Louise Hawkins, Kirk Duffy, Barry Ruskin, Martin John, Al Burges, Collin Lovell, Christian Dransfield, Sean Kelly, Nigel Yeo and supported by Hugh Christopher’s, most of the group are leaving Liskeard around 6:30pm on Friday.

They are to riding to Plymouth where they will meet the rest of the team before taking the ferry to Roscoff in France, returning home on the Santander Ferry on the 27th.

After riding through Brittany the journey takes them through in-land France, riding through the Loire and Dordogne regions arriving in Lourdes on the 8th day. After 700 miles of the smooth flat’ish (hopefully!) roads of France Day 9 is the start of a challenging route which will take them though the Pyrenees Mountains following some of the classic Tour de France mountain passes including the Col de Soulor and via the iconic Cirque du Litor (famous mountain pass) to the summit of the Col de Aubisque and the Col d' Marie Blanque, a day surely to remember!

 Things don’t get any easier on day 10 and 11 as the Basque Country is notoriously hilly being used on the “Vuelta a España” or Tour of Spain as a testing ground for the riders.

Finally on day 12 they ride from Bilbao and follow the coast in the ferry in Santander.  An epic journey for sure.

 If you would like to show your support for the riders; Nigel and Sean have set up a Just Giving Page to raise money for the Cornwall Air Ambulance, they also have a blog which details some of the preparations and training they have done and also document their ride as they go.

 Nigel and Sean would like to thank everyone for their support in helping them raise over and above their target! In particular the employee’s of Tiflex Limited who have once again shown their generosity.

A special thank you also to DrinkMaster for kindly donating refreshments for the ride and Wiggle.co.uk for donating some last minute spares FOC!

 http://www.justgiving.com/NigelYeo-Cycle

 You can also TEXT your donation to their JustGiving page.
 Simply text NYEO99 £x to 70070 (the x = your donation)

 http://www.cycler2s.blogspot.co.uk