My mother is undergo chemotherapy for Bowel Cancer.  According to Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation, 1 in 3 will have cancer at some point in their lives with almost everyone having some experience of it. 

Will you be the 1 in 3 ?  If not, who of your friends and relatives? Cancer Research UK has made huge leaps in increasing survival rates for cancer.

After only my first year of cycling, I have decide to raise money by cycling the big one - La Marmotte.  My boyfriend has done it twice before and have seen grown men cry on the way; it is the hardest one-day amateur cycling event in Europe, maybe the world.  I have made a (crazy) leap to raise as much money as possible for a cause close to my heart.

Please donate whatever you feel you can afford - to borrow a catchphrase, Every Little Helps. Please help spread the word too - cancer's not fussy who it strikes.

La Marmotte has been called the Doyenne of Cyclosportives, the most difficult one day event for amateur road cyclists in Europe.

The 174Km route goes through the Alps from Le Bourg d'Oisans, over the Col de la Croix de Fer, down into the Maurienne valley, and then clockwise back to Bourg via the Col de Telegraphe and the 2,600m+ Col du Galibier (by its far harder northern side, which has been closed until recently due to heavy snow), finishing with the ascent to the ski station at l'Alpe d'Huez. To some like me, the distance won't be such a big deal but the 5000m of climbing - not a common feat among amateur cyclists - and the high altitude take their toll to make a sub-9 hour finish a major achievement (it's won in about 6 hours.

http://mrbaldi.blogspot.com/2008/07/la-marmotte-event-report.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kldC4Mv_VeM&feature=player_embedded

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