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I am cycling 110 miles each day for 21 consecutive days, climbing a total of 48,000 vertical meters - like travelling from sea level to the peak of Mount Everest, five and a half times - because last year I met someone called Geoff Thomas.

In 2003 Geoff Thomas (England footballer, captain of Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup Final) was diagnosed with leukaemia and given three months to live.  He was treated by Professor Charlie Craddock at the Centre for Clinical Haematology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Brimingham, and has been in remission since January 2005.

Soon after he entered remission, Geoff rode the entire route of the Tour de France to raise money for Craddock and the clinic that saved his life. Now, to celebrate having been in remission for 10 years and raise more money for Cure Leukaemia - the charity that funds Craddock's work - Geoff is back on his bike and has invited me and nine others to join him.

All eleven of us are riding every one of the twenty-one stages of the exact route of this year's Tour de France, just one day in front of the professionals.  We will cover more than 2000 miles, including seven mountain stages.  To quote Mark Cavendish in a recent interview with the Financial Times, "the Tour de France is ridiculously hard...a rollercoaster of pain, fear, joy, crashes, excitement, boredom and pressure". The five minute video in the gallery below tells more of the story.

Thank you for any support you can give.  You are helping to save someone's life.