2008 Paris to Hayling Charity Cycle Ride

This year's ride will be made up of two events: 6-Days and 3½-Days
13th & 15th to 20th July 2008

2008 Paris to Hayling Charity Cycle Ride
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Paris to Hayling Charity Cycle Ride 2008

Funds Raised: £34,267 Number of Riders: 200

2008 Paris to Hayling Charity Cycle Ride 6-Day Ride
On Sunday 13th July 2008, over 140 cyclists accompanied by a 20-strong support crew will take the overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo. On Monday 14th July, they will cycle from St Malo to Rennes. So, this year, it is in Rennes where the Bastille day fireworks will be enjoyed. On Tuesday 15th, the riders will cycle from Rennes to Laval via Gorron - twinned with Hayling Island - for lunch. On Wednesday 16th, they will meet up with the 3-day riders ...

3½-Day Ride
On Tuesday 15th, more than 60 additional riders will take a coach and minibus, boarding the overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo. These riders' bicycles will have been previously loaded carefully in a lorry. On Wednesday 16th, the coach and lorry will drop off the riders and their bikes en route to Angers, joining up with the 6-Day riders.

All riders will cycle along the Loire Valley into Angers, then to Tours on Thursday 17th and Alencon on Friday 18th. On Saturday 19th, the group will arrive at Caen where, like last year, an end-of-ride party will be enjoyed in the castle.

On Sunday 20th, the group will cycle to the Fastcat from Ouistreham to Portsmouth and cycle on to Hayling Island, to a welcome at Hayling College, organised by Hayling United Football Club.

 

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2009 Paris to Hayling Cycle Ride
The committee is already looking at the options for 2009, but since the new routes and destinations for Ride 2008 were such a success, we are likely to go for the same or similar routes, with ‘tweakings’. We are unlikely to go to Gorron next year, but maybe in 2010, which is their 10th anniversary of the twinning.

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