All but one of the original team that set off to cycle 2,000km from Prague on August 14th made it to Sarajevo on Wednesday, although the cyclist forced to drop out by injury a week before joined them for the last leg of the trip to savour the joy of completing the 11-day marathon aimed [...]
Week 2 – Tuesday, the penultimate day
23 Aug 2011, 16:18 
The cyclists taking part in the Betfair LifeCycle Challenge are daring to believe that they will actually complete this endurance test, having survived some of the hardest conditions so far.
Monday was only a relatively short 100km but the ongoing heatwave meant cyclists were more concerned trying to see through the sweat running into their eyes [...]
Week 2 – Monday Update
22 Aug 2011, 20:18 
After the 260km covered on Sunday, the participants of the Betfair LifeCycle Challenge had a relatively easy day with just 103km to cover, and just two checkpoint en route, with almost no hills and the extraordinary scenery of the Croatian coast to distract them.
The day saw them ride from Zadar on the Adriatic coast, to [...]
Week 2 – Sunday update
22 Aug 2011, 08:35 
There is a palpable sense that the worst is over for the participants of the Betfair LifeCycle Challenge as although there are still some 400km to go, the hardest rides are over.
The journey from Ilirska Bistrica in Slovenia to Zadar in Croatia on Sunday took them an impressive 260km, up 3.5 km and down 4km [...]
If it’s Saturday it must be Slovenia
20 Aug 2011, 15:37 
The seventh day of the Betfair LifeCycle Challenge has really put the current 21 participants to the test, forcing them to do nearly 20km of steep mountain climbs as they crossed from Austria for Slovenia.
The ride from Klagenfurt to Ilirska Bistrica, in the south-east corner of the country, near the border with Croatia, was of [...]
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