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Celebs complete L’Etape du Tour for Channel 5 reality TV programme

Lucy Mecklenburgh left cut, bruised and blistered after eight hour ride
by Alex Bowden
Tue, Jul 12, 2016 13:03
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Most, perhaps even all of the celebrities taking part in Channel 5 reality TV programme Tour de Celeb have completed L’Etape du Tour. After completing the revised route, one of their number, Lucy Mecklenburgh, published photographs of the resultant bruises and blisters.

This year’s L’Etape du Tour route was 122km long with 2,873m of elevation gain. Of the eight celebrities to tackle it, ex-rugby player Austin Healey seems to have been the quickest, finishing in a time of 4h44m41s.

It looks like they all completed the challenge, however. While road.cc couldn’t find finish times for Hugo Taylor and Louie Spence, the former’s girlfriend Millie Mackintosh tweeted: “146k with 3 mountain climbs and two fractured ribs!! #letapedutour #proud” – the injuries perhaps the result of a training incident we reported on last week.

Spence, meanwhile, can be seen sporting one of the medals awarded to those who complete the event in one of the photos tweeted by Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams, who finished in 6h28m19s.

Spence told The Sun that in addition to Taylor’s incident, Mecklenburgh was another to suffer a fall.

"Lucy had a really nasty fall," he said. "She was riding on her bike and her dad was on the other side of the road. A car went past and she wobbled and fell off. The van was coming from behind and swerved. We thought it had gone over her."

Mecklenburgh, who completed the ride in 8h12m12s, said L’Etape du Tour had been “the most challenging day of my life” and published photographs of the damage done to her hands.

The other celebrities to complete the ride were Jodie Kidd, Darren Gough and Angelica Bell.

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Alex Bowden

Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.

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ontch022 | 8 years ago
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“146k with 3 mountain climbs and two fractured ribs!!"

it was 122k...so it may be one bruised rib^^

 

 

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Rapha Nadal | 8 years ago
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Is 4h 44m good for the event?  I've never done it so have no idea.

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AWP replied to Rapha Nadal | 8 years ago
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Rapha Nadal wrote:

Is 4h 44m good for the event?  I've never done it so have no idea.

L’Etape du Tour is based on a stage of that years TDF so it's different every year. I know a few people who did it this year and, knowing there abilities, I'd suggest anything under 5 hours was fairly decent. I'd have been happy anyway.

You can watch the Professionals (as in the Peleton) do it on Saturday 23rd July.

 

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Carton replied to AWP | 8 years ago
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ontch022 wrote:

“146km with 3 mountain climbs and two fractured ribs!!"

it was 122k...so it may be one bruised rib^^

It was originally 146k, the stage was shortened last week, so the mix-up might be just that. 

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Rapha Nadal wrote:

Is 4h 44m good for the event?  I've never done it so have no idea.

I'd suggest anything under 5 hours was fairly decent. I'd have been happy anyway.

122km long with 2,873m of elevation gain? I'd suggest anything under 5 hours would be very, very quick for an amateur, just in case someone got caught out by the understament. For comparison Chris Froome did a similar Stage 20 last year (111km, about the same elevation) in 3h 20min.

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bikeandy61 | 8 years ago
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