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ALL ROADS LEAD TO PARIS

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  STILL FUNDRAISING FURIOUSLY FOR LEUKAEMIA & LYMPHOMA RESEARCH - YOU CAN DONATE VIA JUSTGIVING HERE - GURNING GRIMPEURS The frantic preparations were over. No more ‘to do lists’, last-minute bike-shop purchases, excruciating spinning classes, weekend training rides, caffeine-gel binges or endless, experimental, chewing on so-called ‘energy bars’. We were finally on the start line at Greenwich Park, suspiciously weighing up the prospect of 500km on two wheels. The Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, London to Paris 2014, charity cycle ride, was about to begin. And we were doing it! The mass peleton moved through central London traffic as one. We had motorcycle outriders who shepherded us along but were not permitted to close the UK roads.  Just like the pros It was more akin to a bike commute than a mass participation sportive. By the time we reached the south coast, our forearms and faces were caked in urban grime. Our distress