In addition to setting a new World Record and gaining a great sense of personal achievement, the main motivation for Chris’s ride was to raise awareness for Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic life-threatening disease which causes persistent lung infections and limits the ability to breathe. Here’s a de-brief from Chris on completing his epic, if sometimes painful, ride down the length of France, from Bray Dunes to Lamanère, in support of Cystic Fibrosis Awareness:

 

Chris – It went really well up to Dijon (540km), where we were 30mins ahead of schedule and then I started having a slight problem with my knee. This went rapidly downhill resulting in my riding at 20kmh an hour due to the pain. ended up with 30mins cycling/45mins massage to get me to Lyon. Then 1hr 30 massage and seemed a bit better. By this stage we had lost a huge amount of time, not helped by a head wind! The next aim was to finish before midnight on the Friday. Which we did! The annoying thing is that my legs were feeling awesome and still are, [except for] just both knees, Achilles and a stress fracture in my left foot! I’ve had hundreds of messages of support during the ride, over 15,000 people looking at my Facebook page and the videos being shared over 500 times! I think we can say that we won the publicity battle!