L’Ardèchoise is not a race, but an endurance ride for cyclists over a period of 4 days. The route is through the diverse and beautiful Ardèche countryside but I doubt Chris had much chance to view the scenery.
Over the four days he: –
- cycled 630 kms
- climbed 10851 metres
- spent 29 hours in the saddle
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burned 24,200 calories
- averaged a speed of 21.8kph
No wonder he said on arrival at the finishing line that it was exhausting but also exhilarating and a fantastic experience. As a result, Chris is continuing to raise significant funds for CSF, his Alvarum website has now reached almost €1300.
If you would like to support Chris and his amazing effort for CSF (and the Paris to Pyrénées challenge is yet to come), then do consider sponsoring him here: https://www.alvarum.com/chrisdowd
And very many thanks, Chris from all at CSF!!
Although this is a past event, we are pleased to confirm that in the end, Chris raised €2356. We thank Chris for this very valiant effort.
Chris’s words onhis Alvarum page
Touch wood, everything is going very much to plan still. In the last few days, I passed 13,000km cycled so far this year, so I am very much on target to tick over the 15,000km target total during the Tour Eiffel to Col du Tourmalet challenge … which is rather frighteningly coming up in under 4 weeks time.
Hopefully, I will see many of you at the Col du Tourmalet at about 14:15 on Sunday, September 8th, but if not, then for sure please keep an eye on your inbox the previous week for regular updates on my progress from Paris – I start the ride at 15:00 on Friday 30th August at the foot of the Tour Eiffel, seen on my way by members of CSF Paris.
For more photos, look at the Gallery
September 2019