DAY 28 – HEADING TOWARDS PARIS | TOUR DE FRANCE CHALLENGE – CYCLING EVERY STAGE + THE TRANSFERS

It’s the 24th of July and Amy cycles part of the transfer to stage 21 it’s a big one! One more day to go after this one!
She’s cycling every stage of the Tour de France plus the transfers for mental health charity Shout / The Mix.
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Bonjour. It’s day number 28, which is Vantit of my tour to France challenge. And today I’m starting in Djon, the place of the mustard. And I’m heading north. Is it like northwest sort of thing towards Paris and I’m still on the big transfer. And we’re staying in Fontmblau basically, which is actually just south of Paris. Well, a little while and then tomorrow I have to go up around the side of Paris to get to the start of start of stage 21 and then obviously do the stage that finishes in Paris. So, but yeah, I’ve got about 161 miles today and 167 miles tomorrow. So, the end is in sight. These two are here to cheerlead me on, aren’t you, Kyle? Yes. As usual, Kyle’s doing something on his phone. I don’t know what. But what you doing? Looking at what? Plans. All right. He’s always He’s always planning that one. Right. Anyway, it’s time to go. I’ve got a few hills to start off with, but then it’s quite an easy route. So, I might be slow first, guys, and then I’ll get me speed demon mode on. Anyway, let’s go. I’m off and I’ve just spent the last 20 minutes navigating out of Djon from the accommodation onto my route. I should be on that side of the river, but I can see that I do cross over it up here, so I should be okay. But I ended up going the wrong way and I couldn’t work out where to go. It was a bit annoying, but I’m on the right track now. Just can’t believe there’s only two days left to go, including today. Nearly there. Yippee! Woohoo! One climb down, seven to go today. I’ve done 1,000 ft in the first 10 miles, so quite hilly to start with. Oh, I’ve got the biggest climb of the day. 624 ft, 3.5 km long, average gradient 5%. So, a nice easy one really compared to what I’ve done in the mountains. So, just got to get up here. I’m feeling really positive today and big difference from yesterday morning when I set off feeling quite negative. So, yeah, just going to keep smiling. I’m feeling tired. And I’ve got a bit of a blister developing on one of my cheeks. Not the cheek on my face. And another one in another area, but they’re not unbearable. They’re just developing. So, I think I’ll be all right. Hey, look at that painting. I do like painting on buildings here. So, I’m 21 miles in. I’ve already done 2,200 ft climbing. So, a very hilly start to the day, but looking at the route, looks like it gets easier from now on. So, I’m grateful for that. I always like to get the hard bit out the way first. Hey, look. Hey. See, I’m just like thinking about the last 27 days, I think. Yeah, it’s just all a bit of a blur at the minute, but I can’t believe I’m going to finish tomorrow. I’m just going to try and enjoy every pedal now because yeah, it’s just like a privilege to be able to do this. And I am a little bit sore. I’m not going to lie. But I’ve got to just make the most of this now. And hopefully those rain clouds will stay away. Some of them are looking like they’ve had better days, aren’t they? Bit like me. That’ll be me on the shelves day tomorrow. Wilters. Oh my goodness. There’s one, two, three, four, five, six donkeys in that field over there. Oh, and they were all just running around and jumping around. A bit far away from the road for me to go and see them, but they were so cute. That’s six donkey. So, the count is now on 34 donkeys. That was great. Right, I’m 49 miles in. Got me sh Oh, by the way, guys, we got the next song. So, do that before we go. Laura’s going to join me for a bit now. And guys, just show me the you might want later. one then. Oh, the little Oh, what is it? Like a strawberry tart. Oh, yeah. I didn’t actually ask for that one, but that’s what I got. I got it by accident. Yeah. Tuna sandwich. Oh, yeah. That’s what tuna tuna. I got you pan. Oh, pan. Wheat. The almond. Yay! I told you I didn’t want one, but I probably do. I always say in the morning, don’t get me an Alban quasant today cuz I feel guilty. What is that? And that is a yammon quas, which is the first time I’ve seen that’s for you. Is it and a slice of pizza that’s actually got mushrooms on this one? I’ll get some food in me and then I’ll do the song for you. And I’ll do the song and get some shammy butter on cuz my bum is hurting so bad. I don’t know what’s happened to it. Something’s gone wrong. You okay? Are you warm enough? M a bit too warm. I was going to take my jacket off, but I’ll probably keep it on. I might swap to my purple one. That’s right. Do we know the uh song Faith? George Michael. Go ahead, Faith. Yeah. Yeah. Familiar with that one. I’m familiar with remake torch. Are you ready? I just want to make sure my bike doesn’t fall over. Yeah. Now, I guess it would be nice if I could put my bike in there. That’s a scola. And I could have a shower and wash my hair and you could whisk me there. But I’ve got to ride a bike. Say bonjour to the bash I pass. Oh, I wish I couldn’t feel my ass cuz it hurts down there. Oh, now we’re on this venture to get to Par and Kyle and Laura will help to get me there. Oh, and I will reconsider my sanity as a ride on my dogma. Feeling sorry for my b. But I’ve got to ride my bike bike. I’ve got to ride a bike. Bike bike. Oh, I’ve got to ride a bike. A bike. A bike. I’ve got to ride by Kylie. He is the captain of the boat. You bought me mommy and my goat. My little masky cot. Oh, that really that didn’t really rhyme. But you know, working with it. Hang on. Hang on. Kylie, he is the captain of the boat. You bought me mommy and my goat. to cheer me up. Laura, please please please don’t use the hob course. We all know it takes too long. Let’s just whack us. Oh, we are on this venture to get to Par and Kyle and Laura will help to get me there. And that’s it really. Hey, the middle went a bit wrong, but you know, it was a first expecting all that. That was phenomenal. Yeah. Laura, please, please, please, please don’t use the hob because we know it takes too long. Just wacky nerves. But we’ve not seen it on the YouTube, but there has been some hob issues. Been several hob issues. Laura can’t be blamed for I know you’ve got some little teeth. Please, please, please, please don’t bite to me. Just made that bit off on the spot. Do you like mommy? Yeah, it’s a bit his teeth are flattening down. Yeah, his teeth are a bit crooked, but it’s all right. Oh, and we could go. We could actually then break down into Kylie. There’s no rest for the wiki. There’s no rest for the wiki wy wiki wy wiki wy wy. And if anyone’s wondering, no, I don’t drink coffee. And no, I’m not on drugs. Laura is joining me for 50 miles. Got 50 miles of smiles now. Nice. We’re on a nice cycle. I feel like we’re back in Derby doing a gravel ride. Yeah, I was just thinking it’s throwback to that last one we did. But the Egypt, do you remember? Oh, yes. Was it the Egypt? bird. The bird that we saw. Yeah. Is it an Egypt or something else? I don’t have a clue. I don’t know. I can’t remember what happened yesterday, Laura. Well, I think I can remember when my bum didn’t hurt. No, it hurts. Yeah, my friend Antonia, she rescued some chickens. I wish I could do that. We’re not allowed, aren’t I? But then they did get eaten by fox, so Little French village. Yeah. Very sweet. Nice. I love like all the little I love the shutters on the windows. Yeah. They just make me want to sing. They’re nice. Yeah. Look who that’s coming over the road. It is a Kylie. Kyle. Kyle. Love the shout loud. Then he’s got his headphones in. Thought I’d seen us. I literally had to shout so loud cuz I knew if I didn’t shout loud I knew if I didn’t shout loud he would not have seen us then here he is. He’s been told off for his headphones. Naughty boy. Gone quiet. Unsafe quiet. How many miles did you do to get to us? My rules. What? How many miles did you do? 16. 16. So you got 16 to the car and then after that I think I’ve got 61 after that. 15 to the car now. Oh god. Then 61 after that. But I’ve got a splitter on my bum. Yeah. Should we try and put a compede on it? Yeah, but it does. It’s hurting now. As we said, it’s a nice easy route to be fair today. Yeah, it is really easy. It’s been uphill on the way. Yeah, the start the start of the route was hilly, but now it’s all right. It was all graded as I was coming to you. It’s okay. We had a bit of rain, but we’re all right. Laura’s here. The dream team are on the road. I just had to stop to put some more shammy on. My bum’s getting a bit unhappy. It feels like it knows it’s near the end and it’s trying to misbehave, but I’m not letting it defeat me. Pain is temporary. I’ll forget about the pain this time next week. So, just got to get on with it. But hey, Khan, I’ve got a new song for you. Play on. We are riding down to Par and Laura are with me. Oh, you’ll see me underneath the Sean Police. Can I stop tomorrow when we arrive in Par? Yes, it’s a Christmas song, but it’s okay. No, you can’t be doing any sore Christmas tunes in in summertime. Yeah, but I’m not singing about Christmas, so it’s okay. There’s a big sunflower field. Oh, yes. Sunflowers coming up. And Kyle said that’s Rapunzel’s tower. Very fair. You could be Rapunzel after this. You had a haircut for a month. I need to shave your beard before. Sunny, yesterday my bum didn’t feel so sore. But something happened overnight and now I need the shammy. Oh jeez. I’m just singing songs to get through this right now to be honest. Right then, we’re back at the car. Kyle’s delivered me a big pan bread. I’m going to have a little bit of that with a little bit of that tuna and salad from last night’s dinner. Last night we had jack of potatoes. I’m just letting me I’m not naked, but I’m letting my bum air a bit. I’m like I’ve have got my big shorts loose and we’re going to try giving it a wipe with a steroid wipe and putting a comp. Well, it’s sterile, you know, sterile alcohol wipe and then make sure it’s clean and then putting a compede on it and seeing if that helps. And I really hope it does because it’s not nice. But anyway, I’m going to eat this right now. And Laura’s decided to join me for another 30 miles. That’s it. Adding on just because Laura talking to me distracting me from the pain. So, Jabber. Mhm. Ja. And then I’ve got 60 m to go. So, 30 m on my own, 30 m to Laura as well. You might as well get the calories in. No, I want one of these. One’s a pizzas. Few miles down the road, heavens have opened and we’ve got a headwind. Hey, but on the plus side that I think that’s the happiest field of sunflowers we’ve seen today. It is. They like the rain. They look perky. Yeah. Not shy. Not as perky as me today. The compede is helping the bum though, so that’s a positive. Well, my time with Laura has come to an end. I think I’ve got like Oh, hang on. You stopped me watch. I’ve got 26 36 46 56. Not forever. 34 miles to go. So, we’re just having a really good convo, weren’t we, Laura? About why I’m doing this and all that. Familanas. Oh, it’s a family size pack of bananas. Yeah, but we need bananas. I’ll have some bananas right now, actually. I love pineapple. What is it, my friend? Ananas. Ananas. Ananas. Ananas. Ananas. Ananas. No, we were just saying like, you know, you only live once. You got to enjoy life. There was a time when I didn’t enjoy my life, but I do now. You do now, don’t you? And that’s all that matters. No, I enjoy my anas. Sloppy. My ass enjoys the anes. Oh, Lori going to get a backlash. Backsplash. Weather can’t make it mine up today. One minute it’s sunny. It’s sun shy. One minute. It’s raining. Yeah, I’m happy cuz I’ve had a tuning tower. I’m getting excited. Oh god, this bloody offic. Well, anyway, what I’ll tell you what I do need coffee cafe when we get there. I was thinking only got 34 miles to go and then tomorrow I’ve actually worked out. I think I’ve got about 176 tomorrow, but that’s okay. It’s only the last one. Shake. Hi. You’ve just burnt a hole in just doing that towards Laura as well. Wind’s blowing that way. Right. I’m going to eat this and crank on just before I ride off my last 35 miles of the day. Was it 36? I don’t know. Something like that. I’m just checking the donations. I’ve not checked since last night. Last night we’re on 49. We’re now without gift aids. Kylie, you ready? Grand 50,782. That’s without gift. Why is it with gift? Must be close to six. Oh, what do we think? 59, 813. Wow. That is mental. Plus, in fact, we are over 60,000 cuz there is an online donation we know about. Oh, someone donated £2,000 from the company. That’s basically 61,000. That’s amazing. That’s mental. That’s amazing. Congratulations. I can’t believe it. Honestly, I thought 10 10,000 was my aim. You pushed it out the water. 50,000. That’s great. Cha-ching ching ching. Blow me that. Pine cones on a bike. Christ on a bike. Pine cones on a bike. Honestly, no. That doesn’t feel real. But yeah, I’m proud. Not even finished yet. No. Might be some extra. Got a day to go. Day in a bit. Well, when I made when I when we got what was it? When we got 30,000, they said that would help 3,000 people. Wow. So, that’s 5,000 people in, isn’t it? Is it? Can’t do math right now. It’s a lot of people. Anyway, I’m going to go. It’s probably raining again now. I’ve just taken my jacket off. Raining again. So, just risk it cuz it keeps stopping. I just do it without my jacket. That train line there going that way goes to Paris. We’re actually quite close to Paris because stage 21 starts the other side of Paris. I have to sort of ride past it and then ride back into it tomorrow. Oh, my G’s talking to me. So, yeah, is it’s like a little bit annoying because I’m so close to Paris. But I’ve still got like 30 mi today and then about 172 tomorrow. So, yeah, the end is near. Got a lovely headwind which I’ve had most of the day, but you’re not pushing me back to the Alps. So, keep on pedaling. I think Laura picked the right time to get back in the car. Getting absolutely trenched and by a lovely main road splashing me with water. But we do have a cycle, so I’m happy about that. But I’m basically a drowned rat right now, so I ended up on the main road and that was scary. cycle path ended, but I’m in a nice little village now. It’s gone the wrong way, actually. And now I’m going on some cobble. So, I better put the camera away otherwise I’ll fall off. My ride is ding dang done. I just had to try and find the accommodation because it was a 3 mi off of my route, which I wasn’t very happy about, but extra 3 miles at the leg, so can’t complain. What you doing, Kyle? It was because it was 61 and I got here in the mile on 63. Sorry. I was on 60 and now I’m 63 or 64. So it definitely was 3 miles off because I looked at the time. So anyway, don’t matter. What’s an extra 3 miles in 4,000. I’m just annoyed cuz it’s so late. It’s 10 7. I need to get in bed by 8. Getting up at 4:00. Right then. I’m just lying in bed. I’ve got my yellow helmet ready for tomorrow. Kyle normally films the end of the video, but he’s downstairs drinking in an Oasis, I believe, and faffing around and watching Tik Tok by the sounds of it. Laura’s here, though. Cheers. We’re all sleeping in the same room tonight. Hello. Because Kyle booked this place and didn’t realize it was one bedroom. So, Laura’s got to sleep in the same room as me and Kyle, which is great. We’ve told Kyle he’s not allowed to do any smells in the night. Anyway, my ride stats from today, 163.18 miles, which is 262.61 km. My bum was in the saddle for 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 53 seconds. And I went up 6,322 ft, which is 1,926 m. Average speed 14.4 mph. Total mileage for the whole trip so far, 3,915 miles, which is 6,300 km and going up 72,977 m. Rounding off the trip tomorrow with an 176 mile ride, 85 miles is a transfer and then the rest of it is stage 21. And 45 miles of that stage is doing the loops in Paris of Champles and that climb that they’ve added in. So Laura’s going to be doing some loops with me, aren’t you? Yes. And Kyle. Yeah. Looploops. But we’re going to make a plan now of where they’re going to meet me tomorrow cuz it’s going to be a bit chaotic, I think, with Paris. But last day, that’s it. I do feel to be fair, my body’s okay. I’m just very tired. Like I feel really sleepy. So, but I’ve got to get up at 4:00 a.m. because it’s such a long day and we don’t want to be really late in Paris. So, you find the adrenaline or 4:00 a.m. get up. You know what? When Elf’s like 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, Santa’s coming like 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, Amy’s coming. I’m going to wear this bad boy as well. Oh, Kyle, do you mind? I hope that’s not setting the scene for the rest of the night. You know what? I’d rather it up the top end. I’m sleeping this direction. Top end. Yeah. What topping over? No. No. Which means you can burp not far. Don’t want it out. Oh, you just bit his hair on the thing. You’re right. I’m looking to sl You’re just milking that a bit cuz you ago you like, “Oh.” And then it was fine. Then you just did it again. No. When you initially feed it take that hat off. I know it’s not complicated. It’s a stud. Is it? It’s a stud apparently. Right. No, no, no. You’re not allowed to wear that. That’s mine. A hot stood. No, no, no sweaty hair going in that. Thank you. No, I’m looking at it. After you’ve been driving in the scooter all day, getting stressed about your bakery. Oh, yeah. I’ve done nothing all day. No, I’m saying you’ll be sweating cuz you get all stressed in the scoden be sweat molecules. I ain’t got stress today. Without wanting to cause more stress. Is the scar lights on? Oh, the SC lights. Is it Are the wing mirrors sticking out? I don’t know. It’s just the lights. Are the wing mirrors sticking out? Yeah. You going to have to put it on? Put it on your head. Yeah. On your head. Yeah. Yeah. Genuine. Why? What the hell? Shut now. What the Oh, tan line. I feel like mine looks like a blooming. What’s these lollies, by the way? That’s That’s just a t-shirt here, by the way. Squashy lolly. They’re squashy. I’ve got one here, too. Oh, bit red there, actually. That looks red on the camera, but it’s not red in real life, is it? What? You watch. No, my my arm is not red, but on the camera it looks bit a bit swollen cuz you didn’t have enough electroly on your wrist as well. Yeah, anyway. One more day only in in in in donkey. I’m starting the hyperd. No rest for no rest for the wiki. Wy wy wy wy miserable mess perks up miserable all day. Have I been miserable today? No. Yeah. No. The only time I was miserable was when you booked accommodation 3 miles off my route. I’ve had to add six miles. I’ve had to add one and a half miles been verified. I’ve had to add six miles to my overall route. You know what you should have done to come here. It’s been verified. You are should have gone in that part. Anyway, can we finish off with no rest for the wiki? Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki. Go on, Kyle. Go on. One one rendition for me. No rest for the wiki. Wiki wiki wiki. He’s fun to do. No, it’s not. So, you did the little weave as well. Like that. No rest for the wiki. Wiki. Sing it and do that. No rest for the wiki. Wiki wiki. Can you do that around the chalise tomorrow? No. Please. Yeah. On Saturday, if I’m if I’m up for it on Saturday, can we go to the Eiffel Tower and you can dance around it going the rest of the wiki wiki? You do realize after 4 or 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, I’m no longer your You can’t no orders. No one can tell me what to do tomorrow. Is that it? End of No, you have to look after me when I finish. No, that’s it. Job done. What do you mean? I won’t be done by 4:00. Don’t know where you what time you think I’m finishing, but you’re bending for yourself, I think. Or like 9:00 p.m., I think. No, what I’m saying is I’ve got you to the job police day. Yeah. When you’re done tomorrow. Yeah. Then you need to get me home back home. You got dear friends. I love how it’s just like it’s just a continuous You’re driving back never over. Oh, you got de. You’re driving and me and Laura are going to be in the back of the scodera singing no rest of the wiki. You got your quiz. Yeah, we’re getting kicked out. Birthday quiz. Laura’s made your birthday quiz as well. Look when we actually get time to bleed 50 questions. Anyway, we could be going on here for hours. So, thank you so much for watching. We’ll see you tomorrow in Parro. Just say one more. Go. No rest for the wiki. No rest for the wiki. Wiki. Wiki. Wiki. Wiki.