raised money<\/a> for Kidney Care because my dad had a kidney issue when I was a kid.”\n<\/p>\n\n ![]()
Alex at the starting line on Le Mans Crescent (Image: Alex Goulding)\n<\/p>\n
\n He will be meeting friends and family at Le Mans Crescent at 10:30am on Saturday for ‘a coffee and a pasty’, before setting off at around 11am.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alex has been training for quite a while, having completed two lengthy cycling trips over the last few years – one UK coast to coast trip, and one 200 mile trip through Wales.\n<\/p>\n
\n The distance between Le Mans Crescent and Le Mans, France is just under 600 miles, though Alex isn’t going to be cycling through all of this distance.\n<\/p>\n
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Alex on a previous trip (Image: Alex Goulding)\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’m not going to be cycling on the ferry,” he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Once in France, Alex will be taking the La V\u00e9lo Francette cycling route for his 150 miles journey from Cannes to Le Mans.\n<\/p>\n
\n Le Mans France is twinned with Bolton, hence ‘Le Mans Crescent’.\n<\/p>\n
\n This also explains the presence of a Rue de Bolton in Le Mans, France.\n<\/p>\n
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Le Bolton Food Cafe on the Rue De Bolton (Image: Google Maps)\n<\/p>\n
\n He initially intended to finish his trip at ‘Le Bolton Food Caf\u00e9’ on Le Mans’ Rue de Bolton, but unfortunately the caf\u00e9 has since closed down.\n<\/p>\n
\n In total, Alex will be covering around 400 miles across the ten-day trip.\n<\/p>\n
\n After completing his gruelling journey Alex will have some well earned rest in Le Mans, with his parents making the trip over to visit him there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, Saturday, Alex Goulding, 34, of Westhoughton will set off from Le Mans Crescent in the town centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}