10 – CYCLE TO MIPIM by 3Fox

editor’s note David taylor

What a difference a decade makes. And what an achievement for the CYCLE TO MIPIM ride to transform itself from a germ of an idea, to 16 blokes and one woman pedalling down to the Riviera, to the major charity money-raising operation it is today, 10 years later. This book aims to chart that journey, reflecting on the people and experiences that make it what it is. We’ve arranged it into years, with photography from each ride. The book is also peppered with profiles of some of The Originals – those who made it that first year – and features themed on the more memorable elements of the 1,500km annual ride. At the back you’ll find a roll of honour of all those who have graced CYCLE TO MIPIM, and all the ride captains too. I first rode it in 2008, and again in 2013 and 2014. (That’s me in the picture, struggling to find my bike, but suppressing giggles at my rider number.) As other contributors remark throughout the book, there are so many memories: impossibly early starts; witnessing a phalanx of riders stripping a breakfast room of all of its provisions like locusts; the fortitude of the ‘all-the-wayers’ and determination of those who found it more of a struggle; the descents, the climbs, and peeling off the layers as we edged down the map to the south of France. And, of course, there is the phenomenonal contribution to charity. But for me the fascination is in the bond that exists between members of Club Peloton, the fraternity of CYCLE TO MIPIM riders. It’s a welcoming society, membership of which never fails to open doors or break the ice. And it lives on, long after the cyclists’ tan has faded and those aches have all eased. Enjoy the book, fellow Pelotoners. And Chapeau!

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introduction The genesis of a ride: how Peter Murray created CYCLE TO MIPIM and made the first outing a family affair, with his son William.

2006

2007

2008

2009

The snowy original ride, plus interviews with rider Matt Mason and Coram’s Carol Homden.

Let’s try that again, plus John Nordon talks ride ethics and the route to Cannes is analysed.

The mammoth ride, plus Mike Lowe, and a look at the bikes that have featured over the years.

The dark side of the ride, plus Suzi Lawrence interviewed, and the toll the ride takes on bodies and bikes.

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2012

Slicker and slicker. James Burland on getting cyclists into shape, plus riders’ kit: the good and the questionable.

Green shoots of recovery take hold, Sunand Prasad is ‘poetry in motion’ and the sun shines, at last.

The Olympics give cycling a lift, super fit Marcus Escott interviewed, and the invaluable support crew.

The wet one. Steve Whyman kicks off the Broadgate Estates years. Plus celebrations on the Croisette.

2010

2014

2013

2015

an average year

soigneur

The scorcher. Original rider Richard Womack on trading hockey for cycling. And food, glorious food.

Now we are 10! JJ Lorraine on the beauty of group riding. And the cyclist’s enemy: time.

How many bananas can a hundred cyclists eat in six days? Facts and figures to light up any cocktail party.

He’s never actually ridden it (yet), but CYCLE TO MIPIM’s Nick Hanmer has overseen the event’s evolution.

The biggest source of funding for CYCLE TO MIPIM and its charities, the ride sponsors are listed here.

What it’s all about: how much have CYCLE TO MIPIM, its riders and sponsors raised for chairity?

all the riders Eight hundred riders have cycled to MIPIM. Every one of them is listed here. Including you…

originals and captains CYCLE TO MIPIM’s very own VIPs.

all the sponsors the bottom line

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The genesis of a ride Peter murray and William Murray

t all started with an idea in Peter Murray’s head. The property industry event MIPIM was coming, it was in Cannes, France, the world and his wife needed to get there and what better way was there to travel but by bicycle?

Well, it might not have been the first choice for MIPIM delegates back in 2006, but Murray mentioned the idea at the end of a RIBA lecture (the subject was guerrilla marketing) and received an immediate, enthusiastic response from attendees, including John Nordon and JJ Lorraine. Why cycling? Murray began riding when Andrew Vander Meersch, then of Stockley Park, insisted that all his consultants took part in a ride from Stockley Park to Oxford. ‘At the time I didn’t even have a proper bike. I remember him telling me that, as I came up behind him, he could hear it squeaking,’ says Murray. ‘I had been commuting before then but I realised that this long distance stuff I quite liked.’ Then Murray bumped into a chap from Slough Estates who told him that he’d just cycled to Paris. Murray caught the bug.

Undertaking the Pedal to Paris ride for the British Legion, he came into contact with ‘a young, enthusiastic soigneur called Nick Hanmer. [The ride was] immaculately organised’. Around this time, sadly, Murray’s elder brother John was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease called multiple system atrophy, for which there was no known cure, and which was the subject of little in the way of research. Murray got involved with the Sarah Matheson Trust, set up in honour of the former registrar of the Architectural Association, who had died of the same affliction. ‘I realised the way to raise money was via one of the only things I knew how to do – riding my bike.’ The bike was again in use in 2000, when Murray decided to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats unsupported – including the considerable logistical feat of collecting fresh clothes at, and sending his sweaty ones home from, each hotel along the way. This was his son William’s first stab at ‘soigneuring’, driving his father to Land’s End and helping put together the film of the ride.

The initiative raised some £30,000, much of it through company logos crudely stitched on to Murray’s jersey. ‘What astonished me was the generosity of people within the property business,’ he remembers. From one fundraising letter, Simon Silver at Derwent, Vander Meersch at Stockley, Alan Leibovitz at Dorrington, the Richard Rogers Foundation – especially John Young – CBRE’s Digby Flower and others responded generously. Murray followed up with another unsupported ride from Pau to Paris two years later where, William reminds him, he struggled on a diet of bread and potatoes as the only carbs available (no pasta!). That raised a similar sum of money, and culminated in a triumphal ride up the east side of the Champs-Élysées. ‘Then I started to realise you can’t go every year and ask people for money every time because they get pissed off, however good friends they are.’ Cut to Murray at one of the property industry’s charity Microscope Balls. ‘I guess the eureka moment was realising that people were paying £20,000 for a game of golf. My analysis of that

is that the property industry generally is quite a generous bunch. They have a lot of money so they can afford to be quite generous. They are very competitive so they like to give more money than someone else. All of those things came together over port and brandy, as these people were spending fortunes at an auction.’ Murray spoke first to architect James Burland, who he knew was an expert cyclist and who responded keenly.

persisted, putting the word out with diary stories in BD and Property Week. Then came that RIBA lecture. It was expensive to go to MIPIM, he told his audience of struggling architects, but there was a way to save the cost of the flight. An email group developed, with meetings at restaurant St. JOHN, including Matt Mason, then of Asticus, with Marcus Escott, Chris Hill, John

‘I realised the way to raise money was via one of the only things I knew how to do – riding my bike’ - peter murray ‘The idea was that we would cycle straight down to MIPIM, non-stop, in relays, in three teams. We would cycle through the night because we didn’t think people could take more time than a long weekend off work or home. So we would leave on Friday night and arrive on Tuesday morning, sleeping in a bus.’ That format would need three coaches, ruling it out on cost terms. But Murray

Rudge and Christopher Coombe joining John Nordon, JJ Lorraine, Burland and Murray. The group planned a route, starting in Calais. To say they had ridden the whole way, they added a trial ride the week before the ride proper, from London to Canterbury (the route selcted for the following year’s Tour de France opening stage), returning by train. ‘That was where we learned of

James Burland’s famous management techniques,’ says Murray, ‘which did piss people off but were fundamental to the discipline which you still find runs through CYCLE TO MIPIM.’ Burland and Marcus Escott could both offer their experience of peloton riding, while other characters emerged: Richard Lanyan, an exmilitary man, only ever wore shorts, even in blizzards. In all 17 riders took part in that first trip including one woman – Suzi Lawrence. William Murray drove one of the two support vehicles, the campervan that followed the peloton; a driver was hired for the main bus, which had been the support vehicle for a Robbie Williams tour (and was slightly worn by the experience). The plan was to stop off at pre-booked campsites along the route, overlooking the unfortunate custom of French campsites not to be open until April. The man responsible for this aspect of the logistics, John Rudge, has been nicknamed ‘campsite’ ever since. Stage stops were limited to places where the bus could be parked –

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supermarket car parks fitted the bill, when security personnel could be evaded. The bus very quickly began to stink. But more pleasantly enduring aspects of the ride’s next 10 years were also established: the peloton carried a baton, for example, to enforce the relay format. The baton has been lost only once, by HOK’s Barry Hughes, who discovered it was missing when walking with Murray to the London Pavilion at MIPIM to present it after the ride. Luckily, they had a spare. A masseur accompanied the riders on year one. (Simon Smith, then of Ramboll, was the closest they had to a mechanic, though; but there were no major incidents beyond occasional punctures). Other sustained elements include Burland’s coaxing, which now takes the form of ride captains. Experienced riders, they lead from the front (restraining any testosterone-fuelled surges) and bring up the rear (urging and gently pushing struggling riders up the steepest slopes). Communicating by radios, some of which work

some of the time, they enforce the enduring ethos of ‘riding at the speed of the slowest’. Another core principle, that the ride raises money for charity, is as important as ever. Coram is now the main beneficiary, but a range of charities has benefited from grants that have built up to millions of pounds. Other aspects have improved. The original ‘Grand Depart’, William Murray recalls, was nothing of the sort. There they were, in the cold and rain of Calais, standing in front of a vast warehouse, with the

and the peloton sought out a basic hotel. But all this fostered a very strong team spirit, aided by a uniform of sorts – red caps for everybody and sponsors’ logos sewn on to jerseys. The bus was decorated with tricolour and union jack flags, as well as sponsor logos which were given additional exposure when the bus paraded up and down the Croisette during MIPIM. Over the last 10 years, MIPIM organiser Reed MIDEM has become increasingly positive about

‘all those people we had ridden with were, you know, brothers, really’ – peter murray flashing neon sign of Boozers as their backdrop. ‘It was pretty depressing. The weather was terrible. It was rainy, cold, grim – I mean everybody set off in full winter kit.’ It got worse, with blizzards so bad near Dijon that the ride was halted temporarily for safety reasons. The cold one morning was enough to freeze bidons. Weather combined with erratic navigation meant the bus was lost at one point

CYCLE TO MIPIM and its crowd-gathering capacity. The ride has established itself as an integral part of the first day of the show, to the point where Reed MIDEM UK sales director Peter de Soissons took to the saddle in 2015. Back in 2006, when the cyclists had pulled in at the Palais, and a large cheque was presented to

then mayor of London Ken Livingstone to hand over to charities, how did Murray feel? ‘Absolutely shattered.’ He has little memory of MIPIM itself that year, not least because his Wordsearch company was also running the famed Carlton Club late night drinking and networking venue. This meant staying up until 4am three nights running, having just cycled through two countries. ‘I remember being in a daze for the whole of that MIPIM,’ he smiles. William tells a similar story, having driven from 6am to 11pm over the entire 1,600km route (there were a few deviations courtesy of earlydays TomTom navigation). The experience drained him even more than his TA extreme sleep-deprivation training. ‘I remember arriving feeling absolutely ball-bagged,’ he says. The pair smile as they recall parking the campervan on the Croisette, showering and getting into their suits for the day ahead. Would they look like successful businessmen, about to hit the Palais to strike a deal as they emerged from their mobile home? Possibly not.

The magnitude of what Murray had achieved only started to become clear to him a year later, when he saw a peloton of 70 riders spreading out ahead of him on day one of the second ride. He had started something ‘with legs’. ‘I felt choked,’ he says. On the first ride, there was a great deal of pride, enthusiastic partying and camaraderie. ‘I think that’s the strongest thing, rather than pride,’ says Murray. ‘The fact that all those people we had ridden with were, you know, like brothers, really.’ And its enduring popularity? Partly, it’s the zeitgeist, he says, the emergence of cycling as ‘the new golf’. But it’s something more as well. ‘It proves itself over and over again to be the most brilliant way in an industry that is driven fundamentally by networking,’ Murray suggests. Peloton cycling, two abreast, enables riders to chat freely to fellow riders alongside them and provides plenty of conversational openings and fellowship. ‘This is the gold standard of networking,’ Murray asserts. ‘Everything is there: a bit of competition, the ability to help people when they need it, the teamwork of operating in a peloton, keeping yourself fit, and you can talk to everybody on a ride as you go

up and down the group.’ The only slight sense of guilt he has is the number of bicycle widows, and increasingly widowers (the 2015 ride included 10 women), he has created over the years. William explains the ride’s success by highlighting a number of aspects: it is hard but achievable; it is expensive both in its fundraising requirements and the time it takes up, including training; and it enables the many sub-sectors of the property industry to assemble – lawyers, architects, engineers, developers, planning and marketing consultants and others, all feeding off each other commercially. ‘Put all that together and people work together,’ William says. There is a particularly strong bond between The Originals, the pioneers who set off into the unknown. But that bond stretches easily to link every rider who has taken part over the last decade, says Peter Murray. ‘Anyone I meet who is a CYCLE TO MIPIMer, I have a connection to which is unlike anything else,’ he declares. ‘I always trust a cyclist.’

2006... the snowy original

The ride that started it all, with The Originals – an intrepid band of merry men and one woman braving everything that the elements could throw at them. Snow, frozen water bottles, the works. Never mind ‘chapeau’, it’s the full winter weather gear you want…

I hate snoring. I was with 17 strange men and they were all snoring suzi lawrence

That first year we did Saint-RaphaĂ&#x2039;l, across the coastline AND into Cannes, so it was the most amazing final leg matt mason

riders had maps stuffed up their jumpers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when you got to a traffic light there was no such thing as a rolling road; We stopped and waited chris hill

freeing mason matt mason

att Mason is the savvy granddaddy of the Cannes ride, in experience and knowhow rather than age. The suave Crosstree developer fondly remembers that first ride – the camaraderie, wonderful; the fragrant bus, less so. Mostly, though, he recalls the way the group bonded together towards a common cause that has had a far reaching impact on the children benefiting from the charities the ride supports.

Mason became involved in CYCLE TO MIPIM on that first venture and has been backed by his supportive company and wife throughout his many reappearances. They understand the challenge it represents to him physically, as well as the friendships that have arisen as a result, strengthened at a 2015 reunion dinner for The Originals. But Mason is most effusive when he talks about the lasting bond he has with everyone he has spoken to over the years, and the networking that perhaps surpasses being at MIPIM itself. ‘Whenever there’s something that

comes up, where you know someone on the ride is involved in some shape or form, it’s an easy phone call. And they give the information you want. You just have a very honest conversation with them and I don’t get that in any other situation, other than working with someone for two or three years on a project. It’s enabled an amazing community of people to talk together, do business together and become good friends.’ There is a point where familiarity gets too much, however. ‘I’ve seen more of Richard Womack’s rear than my wife’s, to be honest.’ Particularly in the last few years, the ride has found its level in terms of popularity and profile, Mason believes, and he is proud of everything that has been achieved, including the money raised.

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Mason was chairman of the Cycle To MIPIM ride for three years, after Peter Murray and before Nick Searl, and in that time was successful in achieving three main goals: a second annual ride, to retail property event MAPIC, also in Cannes; a restructured business operation to enhance the organisation’s fundraising potential; and a cycle safety charter which went into the influential 2013 Construction Logistics and Cyclist Safety report, although Mason concedes there is more to do to ensure better client monitoring of tipper truck drivers once they have left site. Memorable moments are too many to mention, Mason says, but the 2015 ride was a particular highlight for its super-slickness, and for his being able to enjoy it more because he had less responsibility. As to the future, Mason is to call it quits for a while ‘because other people have to take it on’. ‘They don’t need a grumpy old bloke at the back saying: I wouldn’t have done it like that. Come on, let other people get on with it now.’

Coram is delighted to be the main charity beneficiary of CYCLE TO MIPIM. In this 10th anniversary year, the money raised for us exceeded all previous totals, and stands testament to the hard work and enthusiasm of the cyclists in their training and fundraising efforts. The money raised supports the work of Coram Adoption, which finds and prepares amazing parents for vulnerable children who desperately need a stable, loving home. Children like Stanley, who was taken into care for his own protection when only a few months old, was put forward for adoption and is now thriving in his new family. His adoptive parents started the adoption process thinking of a daughter, until the day they saw Stanley’s little face looking out at them from a profile photograph and fell in love with their son forever. As we look forward to the coming years, we know that all those involved with CYCLE TO MIPIM will build upon the success of the 10th anniversary ride, to make it even more successful and raise even more money for our vital work. On behalf of all the vulnerable children that we help across the UK – thank you.

Dr Carol Homden CORAM chief executive

coram...

Charity begins on the road

2007... letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s try

that again

Getting the gang back together again, but now 53 people are on board, including characters like Ben White, Greg Moss, Roger Hawkins, Patrick McKeogh and Christian Spencer-Davies. Perhaps this thing has legsâ&#x20AC;Ś

Peter Murray had the first five punctures on Cycle to Mipim, I seem to remember matt mason

I had a Frenchman in our office phoning the campsites and they all agreed they would take us. But of course the weather was so bad, none of them bothered to open john rudge

career-defining experience john nordon

stalwart member of The Originals, and all subsequent years, John Nordon is an exception to at least one rule: he doesn’t much like cycling. ‘For me, cycling isn’t the numero uno,’ he says. ‘The charity and networking remain the main thing; it just happens to be through the medium of the bicycle.’

That doesn’t mean he takes CYCLE TO MIPIM lightly. Far from it. ‘My entire career has been defined by it,’ he says. Nordon became involved after attending a lecture at which Peter Murray let slip the idea of the ride. ‘[Talking together] we thought, if we went to MIPIM on the plane, what would we do to make an impact? But if we rocked up on the bike, we had something to talk about. For a small practice back then it felt like a good thing to do.’ At the time Nordon was bikeless, his having been nicked, so he needed an excuse to buy a new one. He hadn’t ridden much since his time at Newcastle

University, when ‘a team of lunatics’ would cycle to Edinburgh and back. Here was a way to get back into cycling, do some networking, and raise money for charity – a ‘triple bottom line’. There wasn’t much time to get everything ready from a standing start. Nordon helped on logistics and finding a route. On the road, he remembers, people found their own tasks: Simon Smith, then at Whitby Bird, was a dab-hand at mechanicals; while others cooked (usually those first into camp) and Nordon, who shared an office with the company Inflate at the time, managed to get an inflatable awning that provided shelter

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when attached to the coach. ‘We used it once,’ he laughs. But every year since the event has been more polished, and Nordon has seen that progression having been on every ride. As has his Condor bike. From the start he says, The Originals realised that they had created something special, but key aspects had to be improved to ensure its longevity: accommodation, ‘refuelling’, mechanicals and physio were the priorities. ‘We’ve never received such a good return – pounds per rider – as on year one,’ Nordon says. ‘But we all felt like we were doing something that was going to happen again. It has always been about mixed ability groups, going as fast as the slowest rider, all-for-one and one-for-all – all that stuff. We felt that the riders are there as individuals, and that is the important thing. If a rider turns up and all they talk about is their work or their company, it’s all a bit dull. You’re there as a person, and your business relationship almost comes afterwards.’

LONDON Everyone has their favourite section of the ride – whether that’s a hairy descent or a lung-busting climb. Or even just taking in the remarkable landscape as the flatlands of northern France give way to the twists and turns of the south.

Croisilles

But the route itself has changed little since it was traced out by pioneers The Originals 10 years ago. Riders don’t now set off from a dodgy-looking warehouse store in Calais (‘Boozers – the spirit of Calais’), as they did on the first ride. Slicker and slicker send-offs have been from Greenwich Park, City Hall and, most recently, from the home of Coram at Coram’s Fields in 2015. The route has varied very slightly – a new scenic addition to the English leg was made in 2015, when riders detoured through the stunningly attractive grounds of 900-year old Leeds Castle (in Kent, not Yorkshire). Other stages take in a haunting cycle-past of the First World War battle sites at Vimy Ridge and Arras; dawn’s sun rising over the vineyards of Champagne, after Reims. That lunch stop at Essoyes, the birthplace of Renoir’s wife, offering glimpses of historic stone buildings lining the riverbank. The Moloy bar greeting riders after an exhilarating descent; has beer ever tasted better? And of course Bonnieux, the historic hilltop village that can be seen from 20 miles away, the climb to which is a strenuous aperitif before the main course of the descent through the gorge.

Morcourt

Essoyes

Moloy

Beautiful, yes, but also arduous. You certainly wouldn’t want to come all the way back again on your own, facing headwinds and a misbehaving Garmin. Nobody would be silly enough to attempt that, not even on their 50th birthday. Would they, Mr C Spencer-Davies?

the route...

1,500km of smooth tarmac

Aix-enProvence

Dohem

Arras

Hotel de L’Ecrevisse Remis

Châlons-enChampagne

Pocancy

Paris

Dampierre

Dijon

St-Bonneten-Bresse

Cormoz

Hauterives

Cléon-d’Andran

CANNES L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Bonnieux/ the gorge

La Val

2008... the mammoth ride

Whoa there! 119 riders, you say? Two coaches? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pushing it a bit? The ride swelled to its biggest ever in 2008. The logistics of managing riders both on and off the road became a whole lot harder. Still fun, though, despite the hideous amounts of rain, and this year a ride from Barcelona to Cannes, featuring 15 cyclists, took place at the same time.

I remember going up an ascent at night: 300m from the top Mike Lowe attacked, against his friends, to get to the line first. Only a South African can do that marcus escott

... and if there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a Carrefour, go to E.LeClerc jj lorraine

lowe gear Mike lowe

t nearly didn’t happen for Mike Lowe, the affable South African and senior member of The Originals. Because Lowe got his dates wrong and, with the other riders waiting, he received a call at 2am. ‘Hi Mike,’ said Peter Murray at the other end of the line. ‘Where are you?’

Lowe was in bed, thinking the ride was leaving the following day. ‘But I was so keen I had shaved my legs – I’d shaved everything! Two nights before I had packed my bag and I had my bike ready a day before.’ Lowe’s wife drove him to meet the rest, despite having been up late the night before on a boozy evening with a neighbour, and he made the Eurostar in the nick of time. Lowe, then working at Arup alongside James Burland, had known Murray for years, both having been involved in the Stockley Park development. When the call about the ride came he accepted the challenge straight away, having been cycling for about 10 years. Belying his advanced years –

as CYCLE TO MIPIM approaches its 10th birthday, Lowe nears his 75th – he retained plenty of fitness from his running days with Highgate Harriers. At one time he was running 100 miles a week, and over 3,000 miles a year up to his 60s. Lowe’s task, handed to him in one of the preparatory meetings held by The Originals, was to work up a route, drawing on his knowledge of France. He was helped by Marcus Escott, and the pair marked a Michelin map all the way to Calais. ‘That route they have today is pretty well the route we worked out,’ says Lowe, noting a minor alteration to the last few miles. ‘The funny

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thing about that ride was that it was the best I ever did because of the group; there was terrific camaraderie.’ The group rode in relays, two teams of six and one of five. They prepared and cooked their food, and rode from around 5am sometimes to 10pm, hindered by route-finding snags. Lowe remembers averaging 40mph on a wind-assisted stage, and coming into Dijon when snow forced seven riders and their bikes into the back of the campervan. ‘All these things made it amazing,’ says Lowe. ‘Nobody moaned. It was all great fun, and we laughed.’ The second ride was improved by outriding motorcyclists, closing roads and enabling the peloton to whip through the towns, Lowe recalls. The third year included one rider with a sound system on his bike, taking requests from the peloton. But in the end, that first ride will take some beating, smiles Lowe. ‘I loved it. It was the best experience I’ve ever had.’

Aaah, the bikes. One of the big pleasures of CYCLE TO MIPIM is seeing all that gleaming tech, parked and ready to be claimed by proud owners. With an average cost estimated at £3,000, this is the new preferred high-value hobby purchase for the middle-ager. Even with bike-to-work schemes, a bike can stretch the bonus. Plenty of cheaper machines make the ride (even commuter bikes in the second year), but each year a fair number are truly top end. One such is the baby of Christian Spencer-Davies, who rode a fluorescent orange £9,000 S Works Tarmac – one of a very few replicas of Alexander Vinokourov’s 2012 Olympics ride. Christian being Christian, he pimped up his steed with a rocket-shaped flare at the rear, much to the delight of his fellow pelotonners in 2014. Christian has also ridden CYCLE TO MIPIM’s only recumbent to date; having broken his arm two weeks before the 2007 ride, it was the only way he could take part. Others who ache with style include Joe Morris of Duggan Morris: his first CYCLE TO MIPIM was tackled on a steel-framed beauty with Columbus tubing, Reynolds forks and groupset plus Campagnolo Record parts that he lovingly put together over many months. The latest, under production, will be even better (and probably lighter), he promises. It’s a bespoke build, high performance, US-made Independent Fabrication Ti Crown Jewel titanium frame, built to Morris’ specific riding style, with Campagnolo Record parts, Chris King features on the headset, and Mavic Ksyrium SLR wheels. ‘All in all, my estimation is that the new bike will be 30–40% lighter than my current one, but retaining an elegant, slim tube profile,’ says Morris.

bikes...

All the gleaming machines

2009... the dark side

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the economy, stupid. The UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s went into a deep decline, officially entering recession in January after a rash of bankruptcies including Woolworths and Waterford Wedgwood. The Bank of England sought to cut UK interest rates to a historic 0.5% low, and started creating money through quantitative easing. So MIPIM was a dark place. Undeterred, however, around 60 riders pledged to raise money in the best way they knew: cycling from Greenwich to the south of France. And now they had an ambulance accompanying them and a certain Nick Hanmer on board to drive the whole thing forward.

It involves riding a bike, a lot, for a long time, every day. IT is brilliant seeing people who have not done it a lot, really get the hang of it by the end john forbes

We realised early on that whatever we did we had to be self-contained about it chris hill

If you sit at the front with the pace setters, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not nearly as hard as being at the back. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still learning about cycling and a lot about cycling in a group william Beardmore-Gray

the sweet smell of success suzi lawrence

o be in a coach with 16 other sweaty, smelly cyclists is one thing. To be the only woman in that environment is quite another. But that was the case for Suzi Lawrence, the brave female element in that first CYCLE TO MIPIM. Lawrence had been working at PR firm London Communications Agency for around a year when her boss, Robert Gordon Clark, suggested that it would be good if one of the younger, fitter members of the team could join the ride. So she did.

‘But I didn’t quite realise at first when I got myself into it, that I was going to be the only girl on the trip and having to share a bus with 16 middleaged men,’ says Lawrence. ‘So it was a bit of a shock.’ It was also, she says, one of the best things she has ever done. Lawrence rocked up at the ride’s start, outside the British Museum, with a road bike she’d only had for a few months (she had just recently learned

to ride with clip-in pedals). But she recalls her 25-year-old self being happy not to be last up the hills. She remembers the confidence that gave her, building on a base level of fitness she had accrued from horseriding and running marathons. The experience proved to be a rich and rewarding one. ‘I just found it really interesting because it was kind of a whole introduction to the architectural community which I think the bulk of the bus probably was at that stage,’ she says. ‘Everyone was just so fun.’ Lawrence loved the ‘chaos’ of a ride which could divert spontaneously from a campsite to a hotel when the weather got

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too much. But how did she stay sane as the only woman in the group? ‘There wasn’t an issue at all, there really wasn’t. It was just good fun and everyone had that common goal that no one had ever quite done this before. We were all going down to MIPIM, and we knew what that was about and we knew that we’d get a lot of Champagne when we got down there. Being the only girl really wasn’t a problem at all.’ Having to jump into someone else’s bunk, when the relay riders swapped from bike to coach, was less of a problem than it might have been. ‘I’ve got a brother and I’ve mucked out horses all my life,’ she laughs. At one point, she remembers, she sheltered, snow-battered, behind a road sign, thinking ‘what the hell am I doing?’. But she feels a special bond with her companions from that year. ‘It boosted my confidence. It’s a great way of raising money but also using people’s interests to do that,’ she says. ‘Long should it continue.’

Sometimes the ride takes no prisoners. Given the small matter of 1,500km over six days, we’re talking big pressures on legs, hands and constitutions. Thank goodness for the dedicated team of physios and paramedics, on hand for the occasional ‘incident’ or when those deep and gnarly knots need untangling. There are the self-inflicted incidents, such as the time John ‘Flambo’ Forbes passed out in the hotel reception area one night. Why? ‘Due to excess stupidity,’ he says, he mixed up his protein recovery drink to ‘massively more than the recommended strength’ and was knocking it back in one gulp before running to dinner. ‘All my blood went to my stomach,’ he recalls. ‘It was a massive influx of protein and I keeled over.’ And there is exceptional fortitude: Annabel Sutherland broke her finger mid-ride but didn’t discover the extent of the injury until two weeks after MIPIM. Mind you, the fracture was caused by taking a tumble when posing for Garth Chamberlain and his GoPro camera. There have been allergic reactions to eating too many bananas, to gels and even to coffee. Hazards on the road have included stray dogs and even angry Frenchmen thumping passing riders. And in 2014 the coach came a cropper, the driver lodging it firmly in the mud at a stage stop. Despite the peloton’s best attempts at pushing, it took a friendly farmer with a tractor to drag it out. But thanks to the excellence of the support network – the massages on roadside tables and in hotel rooms, the paramedics who have dispensed more Paracetamol than needed for a century of hangovers – in 10 years there has been no serious injury. May that always be so.

ouch...

broken bodies and busted bikes

2010... slicker and slicker

By 2010 Cycle to MIPIM was getting into its superslick stride, like a newly-cleaned chain with a drop of fresh oil. Aedas became the key sponsor for three years. That gave the ride, now featuring 83 cyclists, much-needed financial security. Cycle Toâ&#x20AC;Ś began diversifying into client rides as well as the MIPIM and MAPIC expeditions.

There were quite a lot of ‘opinions’ about which way to go on the road. A lot of Alpha males matt mason

What I remember from the first year is getting a puncture and the exhilarating fun of changing the wheel by the side of the road John Forbes

the boss james burland

ames Burland was the man responsible on The Originals’ ride for licking all the new recruits into some sort of disciplined cycling shape.

One of the key instigators of the ride, Burland was nicknamed Fat James with little justification, although he recalls his first discussion with Peter Murray taking place over lunch. ‘He [Peter] asked me outright: can he take as many as 60 people in a bunch all the way to Cannes? My first reaction was to say: well, no!’ Murray knew that Burland had trained ‘with a bunch of people’ in Sydney, and that he was a seasoned cyclist. Burland recommended that he recruit ‘a core of people who know what they’re doing and know how to ride together’. ‘And then I got on my soapbox about how ordinary cyclists think they can ride in a bunch, but haven’t got a clue and just ride all over the place and annoy the traffic.’

Burland’s Sydney experience, by contrast, included the Waterfall ride: a regimented event on a Saturday and Sunday, riders going out in twos on a dual carriageway and racing the return leg. ‘You had to learn to follow a wheel really quite closely,’ says Burland. ‘And in the process you got taught by these guys who were older and more experienced, and in quite a vocal way. There wasn’t much tolerance and an awful lot of mickeytaking.’ Fellow riders then included Gary Sutton, world champion in 1980, and his brother Shane Sutton, who has since become something of a guru coach. Burland took The Originals through a training regime, with an easy, slow ride on Wednesdays,

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getting them used to riding at the same pace, not half-wheeling, and not jumping for their brakes. ‘We had a really nice 10 weeks from Christmas to March,’ he recalls – and then it was on to Calais, maps stuffed in their back pockets. ‘The first ride was epic. Because we were riding in bunches of six, that first time you really saw a lot. When you’re in a big bunch you’ve really got to concentrate and don’t look at the scenery much. My enduring memory was a lot of camaraderie, and it was very funny. We had a lot of incidents where we felt we got away with it, no one died of exposure. It really was a little bit hairy. But it was just a beautiful ride. You saw the scenery.’ And today? ‘It’s great the way it manages to lift this huge amount of money off the back of what is quite an extravagant party, really,’ he says. ‘It was a really good idea for that reason. And the opportunity to make very, very good friends is another.’

What one wears on a bike, and after it, for that reason, says a lot about a CYCLE TO MIPIMer. Are they a conformist? An eccentric? Or strictly an amateur? In the first year, Peter Murray suggested everyone wear red helmet covers, which received a mixed reaction, but at least gave the group a semblance of a team. The Originals also had team sponsor names sewn into their shirts – precursor to today’s more comprehensive ‘brand coverage’, with teams in their sponsors’ colours on days one and six. On other stages, many opt for Rapha black while others are more colourful – from the Knight Frank riders’ pink uniforms to Christian Spencer-Davies’ unnerving obsession with orange. A critical aspect of kit is how it copes with the transitions in weather and temperature, which has ranged from minus seven to 15 degrees centigrade in a single day, and from dry to very wet indeed. Those who don’t bring a change of Lycra mourn their mistake, their (shared) bedrooms resembling a smelly laundry. Striped legwarmers draw disapproving looks from ride captains, as do headphones (unless they’re hidden under balaclavas). On the techier side, electronic gear changing and disc brakes have become less rare, and Garmins are everywhere. Garth Chamberlain is remembered for riding, in 2014, with one hand on the bike and the other gripping a GoPro. Downhill. At over 40mph. With hairpins. Kit-wise, John ‘Flambo’ Forbes is something of a CYCLE TO MIPIM icon, thanks to his distinctive ‘human torch’ outfit. ‘It’s the old club colours for Birkenhead North End CC,’ he explains. ‘The new kit has dispensed with the fire, but I put the old one on at CYCLE TO MIPIM because everyone expects the flames.’

kit...

be honest: it’s not just about the bike

2011... green

shoots of recovery

Andâ&#x20AC;Ś breathe. Back home, the UK economy was at last starting to see a few green shoots of recovery, making those Champagne flutes that much easier to grasp at Cannesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Palais des Festivals. There would be an Arab spring, and summer riots in England, but the big topic in the peloton was still whether to wear the gilet or the arm warmers. Eighty-two intrepid riders made the trip.

the final leg, when we came over the top, I think most of us had a tear in our eye nic sampson

Boris rode a Boris bike for the last 6kms. He set off at a very brisk pace and I thought: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ooh, this is impressiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. But unfortunately he was getting redder and redder, slower and slower john forbes

poetry in motion Sunand prasad

YCLE TO MIPIM changed Sunand Prasad’s life by catapulting him into cycling. After agreeing to take part in the ride ‘on a whim’ the former RIBA president felt he’d better try cycling out on a spin around Regent’s Park. He turned up in a sports jacket and ordinary trousers. ‘I got on to my road bike and tried to go around at the kind of speed they were talking about and I thought: bloody hell.’

Prasad had been working on a project with Peter Murray’s Wordsearch when he heard of the original plan. ‘Not only does he have good ideas,’ says Prasad of Murray, ‘but he’s got a fantastic knack for the right scale of idea. Do-able but also extremely ambitious.’ The original ride garnered huge enthusiasm, capturing everyone’s imagination. ‘Every single person involved in that did something for the team as a whole and it was just lovely.’ There are so many memories, he adds, but the abiding one is of

beauty. ‘There’s a kind of magic in being on a bike in a landscape.’ Most vividly, he remembers one very late evening: ‘We were going across quite a flat landscape where there’d been a lot of rain. The moon was out a little bit but not much and it had just rained so there was a lot of water on the road. We were in a spray and there was a beautiful sound of the wheels on a very, very smooth, black French road. They’re just so beautiful, those roads, and the spray was illuminated in the headlamps. You were conscious that there was water all around; it was almost as if you were skimming across the surface.’

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‘The stars were out, it had been a long day, and yet there was no fatigue,’ says Prasad. Blissful, like a sequence from the movie ‘Spirited Away’. More prosaicly, Prasad recalls cooking pasta on the bus in huge pots, the painful but necessary training, and the ‘glorious chaos’ of getting showered and ready for food. The ‘mutual caring’ in the peloton has remained a feature of CYCLE TO MIPIM, stronger cyclists being patient and helpful to slower riders. Prasad was clearly buoyed by the cycling experience, completing a large chunk of the cross-continent Portland to Portland ride in 2013 with other CYCLE TO MIPIMers Peter Murray, Roger Hawkins, Sarah Jenkinson and David Taylor. So what of the future for CYCLE TO MIPIM? ‘My hope for it is that it remains as amazingly professional and together as it is – and also that it keeps including people who are more willing than able.’

What the weather gods have in store for the CYCLE TO MIPIM riders has a major bearing on many people’s enjoyment of the event. But it never dampens the spirits for too long, even when the heavens open. Recent years have been stunningly sunny but, in the early days, there was little respite from the most inclement conditions. No crew to pass you a bobble hat and puffa jacket, no big coach to retire to, warming hands on air vents. On the very first ride in 2006, William Murray drove a small support vehicle behind the riders. About half way through France, he put his foot down – not on the accelerator, but over the insane weather conditions; he insisted the cyclists should come off the road. ‘I was in charge of safety and it had been snowing for one, maybe two hours,’ he says. ‘You couldn’t see the road anymore. The snow was settling and even the black lines being made by the tyres were getting covered up – visibility was down to about 30–40 feet. So I took a view, and was adamant about it, against the opinion of some of the others, it has to be said. It was stupid to continue.’ The weather that first year was grim all the way, raining ‘from the get-go’, windy and freezing water bottles into ice bottles. Contrast that with 2014, when Murray rode the route for the first time, and enjoyed the transation from crisp early starts to layer-stripping warmth by lunchtime. Some riders cover the full 1,500km in seemingly constant torrential rain, as in 2013. They don’t look great at the end. How do they do it? Chances are they have an advantage, having trained through the winter in Britain.

the weather...

To layer, or not to layer

2012... the olympics

Ahâ&#x20AC;Ś the Olympics. All that feel-good cycle-fever rippling through old London town and across the nation. Velodrome-love bubbled over, enthusing 78 property people to sign up for the ride, setting off from City Hall.

James had this idea that you’d call out your number so in the middle of the night you’d make sure you hadn’t lost anybody. It was really black, we were going very fast and it was a bit like flying peter murray

Sergeant Major Burland taught us all how to ride, because we had no idea matt mason

Cycling has become such a big thing in the property industry now. Even people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cycle are fascinated by the whole thing john forbes

marathon man marcus escott

arcus Escott was one of the most proficient cyclists on the first ever CYCLE TO MIPIM. And, since then, he has been no stranger to challenges. Escott completed the Marathon des Sables in 2014, arguably the hardest race on the planet, involving seven days of marathons run with a backpack in 40 degrees centigrade. On sand.

Escott took part in the first three rides, including ‘the busy one’ in 2008 when 119 joined up. He got involved because his employer at the time, Adrem, took the liberty of volunteering him. His colleagues knew he was an experienced rider and amateur racer. ‘I was really keen, super fit and everyone in the office thought I was nuts,’ he says. Escott was the youngest there as a 20-something and felt slightly overawed by his director-level fellow riders, but soon realised he was one of the more experienced cyclists. And what he found interesting was that, despite his tender years,

he could subvert the hierarchy and boss others around once they were on the road. ‘I had no idea, but it didn’t matter, it was great because they kind of liked that. It became a level playing field, about your knowledge of cycling and the bike. Which was awesome, really. And we were raising money.’ Escott and John Nordon spent hours at the latter’s house in Camden, with Google and a paper map, planning every single stage. He still has the original map on a shelf at home. One week before the off, the 17 originals met to ride to Canterbuy in what was the most ‘disorganised, awful,

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scrappiest ride you could imagine’. But it all came together in the end. When people say ‘CYCLE TO MIPIM’, Escott remembers cold, rain and snow, but also everyone smiling, everyone pitching in. He recalls the group having to break out of one of the few campsites they could get into, because it was locked overnight and they needed to set off at 5am. He remembers also losing the coach, and asking for special dispensation from Peter Murray to stay as a group in a hotel away from the ‘sweaty, wet stinky mess of the bus’, getting blown into a ditch, and some amazing descents, singing as a group around a series of hairpins. ‘Everyone was just chuffed to bits, because we knew we were coming to the end of the stage, and it was 11 o’clock at night. We’d gone through the wind.’ It all felt a bit like the Magnificent Seven. ‘It really felt like that – like we were on a secret mission. And it was just us guys, and nobody else mattered.’

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a CYCLE TO MIPIM rider in possession of a good bike will at some point be very, very grateful to the support crew. Whether it’s waving the riders off, cheering them home or providing a welcome smile and cup of coffee in an hour of need, they are indispensable. Of particular note here is Carol Aimers, one of the longest serving crew members, who thrilled the riders in 2015 by creating wonderful cakes, including one to mark the 10th year of the event. Nigel Hill’s mechanics provide another safety valve (Presta and Schrader – every need covered), with their unrivalled knowledge and the restraint to not laugh when the catastrophic thing wrong with your bike turns out to be a spoke that needs tightening. But they and the physios – led by Loic Lefevre and Tierney Maude of Roadside Therapy – work well into the night, meaning their days are impossibly long and arduous. And snapper Matt Alexander catches it all with his camera. The paramedic team are there for Paracetamol, Ibuprofen and expert assistance and advice if anything stronger is needed (though it rarely is). And then there are the outriders. Not only does this team of eight skilled French motorcyclists (‘motos’) make you feel part of a proper, grownup, professional ride, holding an authoritative hand up to halt traffic at roundabouts, blocking intersections and speeding off through impossible gaps in the jams, but they also provide a soundtrack for riders as they hurtle across France. Many is the time that the moto known as ‘Moustache’ (police officer Christian Coy, whose birthday is often during the ride) has banged out ‘Wild Wild West’ from his BMW R1200RT’s onboard boombox. Hmmm. Perhaps not so helpful…

the crew...

The wavers, the fixers and the outriders

2013... the wet one

Broadgate Estates signed up as the new headline sponsor. The group swelled to 87 riders, and Lizzie Armitstead graced us with her considerable Olympian silver medal-winning presence for the last leg. And it rained. A lot.

A particular highlight for me today was the amount of roadkill samantha mcclary

Whoever came up with the idea of meeting the bus at Carrefour car parks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it might have been William Murray â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that was critical marcus escott

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real privilege to cycle through the immaculate French roads. the peloton is welcomed wherever it goes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Tour de France experience for amateurs Roger Hawkins

a word from A sponsor Steve whyman

ponsorship has been a big part of the success of the CYCLE TO MIPIM ride. And one of the biggest names in this arena in latter years has been Broadgate Estates.

For its chief executive Steve Whyman, himself – appropriately enough – a former director at Halfords, it is partially the challenge aspect that appeals. But he is clear that it is also a networking event beyond parallel in the property world. ‘It is one of those shared events where it doesn’t matter whether you’re the most senior person in the company or the most junior, you’re all going through the same experience,’ he says. ‘Everybody needs to help each other out.’ This is the one-forall, all-for one mindset, with the fact that most importantly, this is all for charity and particularly Coram, Broadgate Estates’ corporate charity. Whyman believes the ride has grown in importance alongside cycling’s growth in

popularity more broadly, and an increasing awareness of the role the property industry has in infrastructure development and cycling safety. ‘I personally really enjoy the challenge, but it’s also a fantastic way to meet a great bunch of people who are all going through the same shared experience,’ he says. ‘It’s hard work, everybody makes individual sacrifices to put in the training over the winter months to be ready for the ride, but it’s worth it when you ride into Cannes and feel a collective sense of achievement.’ Whyman’s fifth ride was in 2015 – also Broadgate Estates’ third year as headline sponsor, which he

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believes is something that makes sound business sense. ‘With my pure business head on, MIPIM is a significant event, as we all know in property, and it’s highly competitive when it comes to brand exposure. We thought: what could we do that is a bit different, which is something that has meaning to us as a business, and CYCLE TO MIPIM fitted the bill perfectly.’ Each year, gradual improvements and refinements have been made to the ride, to the point that last year rider places sold out within hours. But some things are bigger even than the ride and MIPIM itself. On a personal and business note, Whyman tragically lost a colleague, Ian Tapper, to cancer last year. ‘Ian didn’t let on but knew he was ill and still wanted to ride all the way. He was awesome on the ride, helping people out,’ says Whyman. ‘He was just great fun and the smile on his face as he crossed the line with our team is a memory we all cherish.’

The arrival at Cannes’ Palais des Festivals is an emotional moment for any rider who has left London 1,500km and six days earlier. As the peloton sweeps around the coast, it is a majestic sight to see the boats, the palm trees, even the poodles and the red-faced men in suits outside Bar Roma. For many, this moment is a chance to contemplate not only the sense of physical achievement, but also the emotional one of pushing one’s body so hard and raising money for such good causes. Hugs and high-fives can give way to a tear or two as the wheels cross the line on La Croisette, past the waiting coach and on to the Palais frontage. There the riders dismount, gleefully discard any remaining Mule bars (‘I’ll never eat one of these things again’), and pose for the photographers. London mayor Boris Johnson, a keen cyclist himself, has been a big supporter of the ride, and even rode part of the last section on one of his Boris Bikes. He has also been there to hand out the medals, as has his mayoral predecessor Ken Livingstone, former City of London mayor Mike Bear, and current deputy mayor Sir Edward Lister. From the world of cycling, former Tour de France rider and Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Malcolm Elliott handed out the medals in 2014. Meanwhile, silver medal winner at the 2012 Olympics and all round good egg, Lizzie Armitstead, delighted riders with her presence in the peloton from Le Val on the final stage in 2013. Now that’s arriving in style. A sense of glory can be overcome by thirst, to which Savills respond by opening their hospitality area to the riders, serving welcome beer and burgers – and not a banana in sight.

arrival...

A warm welcome at the Palais

2014... the scorcher

Scorchio! This was the hot one. Cycle To… is now running 13 rides during the year including Cycle to MIPIM. Wowsers. ‘It had morphed into this beast, basically’, says Nick Hanmer. Coffees were on tap for the first time, providing a welcome caffeine buzz for those in need of an extra (legal) boost.

the challenge is taking on the conditions presented by a long dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s riding will monk

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a brilliant experience, not just the cycling; the views and France, just the whole team thing. You never get an opportunity to do something like this trish barton

special agent womack richard womack

nvestment agent Richard Womack was the last recruit for the original ride down to Cannes. Inspired by a letter asking for sponsorship from his firm at the time, CBRE, he instead asked Peter Murray if he could come on board, not least because it would help him to get over a major knee injury he’d sustained skiing the year before with Exemplar’s Clive Bush. ‘I’d broken my anterior cruciate ligament, busted my knee up big-style, and this was the only way I could trust myself not to damage it again,’ he says. ‘I gave up hockey and thought: I’m going to take up cycling.’ In fact, on the second day, riding out from Calais, Womack realised it was only something like his sixth ride ever. Talk about a baptism of fire.

Womack recalls how, being from a ‘relatively aggressive commercial environment where banter and acerbic chat was the norm’, the quips he threw about on the bus received a few raised eyebrows from the ‘very pleasant-mannered architects’. ‘They were thinking: what the hell is

this guy on? So after about 24 hours I thought: shit, I just need to rechip. So I rechipped into a softer, calmer mode and from that moment on it was perfect.’ In fact he fitted in to such an extent that JJ Lorraine is godfather to one of his children and Womack was set to enjoy a training weekend in Majorca before the 10th anniversary ride, and another attempt at Mount Ventoux. ‘So we’re very good pals.’ The first ride was ‘bold without you knowing it was bold’, and Womack believes he covered the most ground at around 1,100km, raising some £14,000 in the process. ‘My memories of it are fantastic.

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We were doing some night riding, snow riding. It was a real sense of camaraderie.’ He remembers ‘the armchair’ – sitting on the wheel of the rider at the front on descents, and another time when the shadows of the riders were cast across a French field – ‘our shadows must have been 30 feet long’, rattling along at over 40km an hour courtesy of a strong tail wind. The ride is also, adds Womack, a real leveller, something that remains true of the event today. ‘You got on those bikes as individuals labelled in your jobs at the start of the trip, and then you got off the bike just being part of a team with no labels,’ he says. ‘You were just all the same, helping each other, and it was a real equaliser. That’s what I love about it.’ The final highlight was the end of the ride, turning into Cannes and along the Croisette to the Palais after all their hard work. ‘Yes, the end was fantastic; it felt really good. I felt like I’d won some friends that were going to be more than temporary. And that turned out to be the case.’

Food. It’s the thing that, even more than wearing the right kit for the right weather, gets cyclists in the biggest of tizzies. And that’s understandable, when you’re burning so many calories every day (around 55 calories per mile, depending on body weight). It’s difficult to ingest enough to take their place. An enduring memory for most riders is of breakfast time, when a lycra-clad swarm of locusts descends to strip the dining room bare in minutes. Chugging coffee in great volumes for a legal high, they assault the piles of croissants, baguettes and fruit (and, in recent years, in perhaps the clearest sign of improving organisation, sausages, eggs and bacon). Heading out into the dark, frosty dawn, they stuff pockets with jam- or meatfilled pastries and bananas, the latter a constant companion across La Belle France. On the road some have perfected personal diets. Samantha McClary loves a sausage (no laughing at the back), tucked into her rear pocket and enjoyed for its sodium and protein. Others have their gels, Jelly Babies (Bassett’s or Barratt?) and CLIF bars. But everybody likes pizza. It might have been pre-ordered and delivered to the rest stop before the last stage of the day specially for a single group of riders, but it’s a brave ride captain who tries to hold off the ravenous scavangers… More communally, cake is occasionally proffered by proud locals. And, to wash it all down, in 2015 architect Phil Coffey had a bright sponsorship idea: paying for a certain popular beverage to be emblazoned with his name (Coffey, not Phil). And then to the well-earned evening meal: dinner has evolved from spartan beginnings (‘hope you like pasta’) to a richer offer (‘ox, anyone?’) and, more recently, a more varied buffet. Wine bottles proliferate as the end of the ride approaches and friendships are celebrated. Let’s drink to that.

food, glorious food...

The bananas, the gels, the back-pocket baguettes

2015... now we are 10

2015 was the year that The Originals came back. Full circle, if you like. And the ‘ladies after lunch’ leading the peloton out after, well, lunch. A record 92 out of 104 riders were out on the road at one point, such was the beautiful weather, albeit after the chilling minus seven degrees start froze a few bottles. An unprecedented 784 bananas were eaten and 20% of the 104 riders went the whole way. Roll on 2016…

There are loads of reasons for doing it and no real reasons for not doing it john forbes

Everyone has been on their own journey, and they all have something personal or positive to take away, something they learn whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done two stages or the whole thing charmaine brown

building a business from a bike jj lorraine

J Lorraine believes that he launched his practice off the back of a bicycle. Not literally, of course, but the founding partner of Morrow + Lorraine feels that he owes a great deal to his first ever CYCLE TO MIPIM ride: the fellow riders who became teammates, friends and then business partners as a result.

And yet, a while after his interview for this book, JJ emailed with a little more. ‘I’ve been thinking about your question about what CYCLE TO MIPIM has done for me,’ he began. ‘My kneejerk answer was that it helped me build a business network from which my fledging practice was able to flourish. Having thought about it a bit since then, it’s actually done something that may be more important to me; it introduced me to cycling.’ Before CYCLE TO MIPIM, JJ was ‘sporty and a commuter’ but never a cyclist. ‘I now will never not be one,’ he says. ‘It’s not just the sport of cycling that my eyes have been opened to through

CYCLE TO MIPIM, but the other aspects like the sport’s history, its characters, its controversy.’ And, JJ believes, the lessons drawn from life in a peloton echo in ‘the real world’ on a regular basis. ‘Cycling came at a point in my life – the thirties – when getting healthy both mentally and physically resonated, so cycling has taught me about health, nutrition, taking care of yourself and, most importantly, the romance of caffeine: that coffee that you won’t ever forget as it sorted you out 100 miles from home, cold, wet and tired. ‘It has given me a handful of great friends, a vast number of memorable experiences and very many

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happy memories. The cycling is the new golf part is important, but not everything.’ So, what was JJ’s most memorable CYCLE TO MIPIM moment? One from year one pricks his memory: a little baker in the freezing dawn, serving cheese scones and Cognac around a wood-burning stove. More recently, there was the last day of the 2013 ride, stage one from Aix en Provence to Le Val, after the climb out of Aix. A group of 14 or so riders established themselves at the front of the peloton, including Mike Lightbound, Joe Morris, John Forbes, Pat Hayes, Richard Heath and JJ. ‘We worked together in perfect harmony for about an hour, doing through and off, and maintained a really very quick speed. It felt fantastic to be riding so well and in union, doing work for the peloton, forming a massive hole in the wind for the riders behind. It was a moment of perfection, poetry in motion and I know that others who were at the front look back on it as fondly as I do.’

Time is a great leveller on CYCLE TO MIPIM. But it’s not just about hours in the saddle, it’s about hours spent not sleeping. Those dark, cold, early starts. The numbers 04:45 aren’t seen often on a clock, unless it’s time to catch a red-eye flight from from Gatwick or Heathrow, or (for the younger riders) to stop dancing and go home. But that is the unearthly hour at which alarms go off for CYCLE TO MIPIM riders. Alumni will shiver with horror as they remember this side of the event: six days of pre-dawn awakening, stumbling around thinking ‘now I understand why the experienced riders suggested I lay all my kit out the night before’; showering, ‘creaming up’ and hauling on damp bib shorts and smelly jerseys; shuffling into the mad bunfight of the breakfast room and willing digestive systems into first gear to handle as many carbs as can be stuffed down. No one is quite sure, given this unwelcome start to the day, how certain stalwarts of the ride can also burn their particular candles at the other end. There they are, propping up the after-dinner bar – mentioning no names, especially not Phil Coffey, Joe Morris, Chris Horn, Jennifer Ross or Paul Karakusevic. Oh no. Suddenly, the coach, with its comfortable seats that recline for snoozes, doesn’t seem quite so smelly after all… The last stage of the day can be the least wellattended – not surprising when it can finish as late as 9pm. One year, with the ride running severely late, Barry Hughes volunteered to pedal an entire stage with only fellow experienced cyclist Ben White for company. The record books suggest this was the fastest leg ever completed in the 10 years of the event. Time for a beer…

about TIME...

Riding, round the clock

an average year*

the ride

in numbers *No year on CYCLE TO MIPIM is average, of course, but we thought it would be good to show some of the key facts that lay behind its organisation, based on stats compiled in 2014. Sure, in years of worse weather, there might be more mechanicals and fewer doses of sun cream. Maybe even more bananas. But the bum cream? That’s one stat from ‘behind’ the scenes we’re confident will stay constant…

98 riders

health

56.6 hours of physio treatments in six days

35+

23,500

locations

45 metres

101,640KM

kcal

Total distance ridden by an average of 70 riders on each stage covering 1,452km

of physio sports tape Rocktape

behind the scenes 45 crew 2 litres of sun cream

2 therapists, 17 support crew (including 4 mechanics), 1 photographer, 2 bus drivers, 2 paramedics, 21 French crew

10 litres of bum cream

Approximate calorie consumption by a rider during the whole distance

mechanicals 7 tyres

2 dead bikes

4 inner tubes

7 brake pad sets

2 dead lights

Below average due to the brilliant weather

Brought back to life by the mechanic crew

food and drink

794 bananas

900 baguettes

330 mars bars

1,950 litres water

1,000 coffees

7KG oranges

900 pastries

450+ snickers

240 litres cola

40 slices pizza

9 UK vehicles

6 French vehicles

9 motorbikes

1 coach

1 tractor 89

soigneur

keeping it on the road nick hanmer

ick Hanmer is Monsieur Soigneur as far as the ride to Cannes is concerned. He’s the man who makes it all tick, the one who ensures everyone is in the right place at the right time, and that the donations keep rolling in.

Hanmer was brought on board after the third iteration of the ride in 2008, in the depths of recession or, as he puts it, ‘when it all went tits up’. The group had realised it needed someone to drive the thing full-time, not least because that year involved 119 riders from London plus 15 from Barcelona, and Hanmer got involved with the housekeeping of the charity. ‘I was surrounded by energetic and creative people, which was different from where I’d been working previously,’ he says. ‘Allied to that, it was with people who wanted to do business and seek opportunities, marrying up what was a brilliant vehicle for raising money and networking with those who had the money.’ Hanmer brought a ‘bit of order to the chaos’ that had arisen out of its steep growth, so 2009 was the beginning of a new phase. ‘We got to Cannes,

we had a great ride and I thought: this is a dream job.’ That job has changed quite dramatically from 2010 onwards. This has principally been in diversifying into other client rides – the organisation ran 13 in 2014 – and consultancy work, to the point that it now employs an event director with admin support and accountants. But Hanmer remains focused on the key aim of the ride: raising funds for charity. ‘The amount of money we are giving to them and to the other charities will have a profound impact,’ he says. ‘It’s reaching thousands of people, and changing lives.’ Thanks to the generosity, ambition and targetdriven nature of the property industry, the ride has generated millions of pounds in grants over the decade. And it’s all going to good places. Nick is especially attached to Coram: ‘I firmly believe that every child should get the same secure start in life as possible – a stable home, a good education and plenty of opportunities. How they use that when an adult is down to them. But a good start in life is so important because the impact of it is felt for decades beyond.’

appendix

all the riders 2006-2015

Zeljka Abramovic 2009 Nick Acton-Adams 2013 David Adams 2009 Julian Agnew 2008 James Anderson 2009 Andrew C. Angeli 2013 Steven Archer 2011 Earle Arney 2013, 2015 Richard Arnold 2009, 2010 Stephen Ashworth 2014 Jennifer Aslin 2008 Chris Atkins 2011, 2014, 2015 David Avery 2008 Marcus Barclay 2009 Jamie Barlow 2012 Trish Barton 2015 Chris Bartram 2009 Simon Bate 2008 Ivor Beamon 2008 Paul Bean 2013 William Beardmore-Gray 2014 Julian Bell 2013, 2014 Paul Bell 2014 Daniel Bent 2012 Samuel Bentil-Mensah 2010 Ewan Berkeley 2013 Ed Betts 2014 Simon Birchall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Harbinder Birdi 2008 Rick de Blaby 2008 Graham Black 2008 Philip Black 2008 Roger Black 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Sara Black 2014, 2015 Chris Blackburn 2009, 2010 Richard Blair 2013, 2015 Michael Boardman 2012 Richard Bonner 2008 Dominic Boyes 2011 Chris Brand 2012 Stefanie van den Brandt 2007 Lawrence Brenchley 2013 James Brennan 2013 Adam Brown 2011 Amanda Brown 2007 Charmaine Brown 2013 Chris Brown 2008 Rob Bruce 2010 Michael Buchanan 2012 Matthew Bugg 2015 Nick Bull 2008 Michael Burdus 2008 Paul Burke 2012, 2013, 2015 James Burland 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 Hazel Butler 2011 Craig Calder 2010 James Campbell 2011, 2013 Ian Cardy 2008 James Carr 2014 Stuart Carr-Jones 2011 Carl Carrington 2009 Tim Carter 2014 Sarah Cary 2009, 2014, 2015 Isabel Cashman 2010 Garth Chamberlain 2014 Matt Champkin 2012 Edward Charlesworth 2013 Stephen Charnock 2010 Matthew Checkley 2008 Stephen Chicken 2010 Christopher Choa 2009 Kevin Chrisp 2008 Nick Clare 2014 Giles Clark 2011 Jonathan James Clarke 2014 Steven Clarke 2010 Jules Cocke 2007 Nick Codling 2014 Philip Coffey 2013, 2014, 2015 James Coghill 2012, 2013, 2015 Lara Cole 2012 Jon Collins 2010, 2013, 2014 Will Colthorpe 2014 Joe Conder 2010 Christopher Coombe 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 John Coombe 2010 John Cooper 2009 Emile Corkhill 2008 Ben Cousins 2014, 2015 David Cox 2011, 2012 Alastair Craig 2011, 2014 Jon Crellin 2010 Barry Crichton 2008 Stuart Cross 2008 Charles Curry-Hyde 2015 John Curtis 2011 Tom Dailey 2013 Daniel Dangoor 2013 Peter Dash 2013 Andrew Davidson 2012 Patrick Davis 2014 Mark Davison 2007 Ryan Dean 2013 John Dear 2008 Toby Denham 2007 John Dent 2013 Harry Dobbs 2011 Ulysse Dormoy 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015 Andy Downey 2014 Tim Downing 2009 Nic Downs 2010, 2012 Eugene Dreyer 2007 Dominic Dugan 2014 Simon Dunlop 2014 Matthew Dunn 2015 Chris Dyson 2015 Steve Eades 2008 Kate Eagle 2011 Bill Edgerley 2010 Paul Edwards 2009, 2010 Christophe Egret 2010 Gary Elliott 2011, 2013, 2015 Matthew Elliott 2008, 2010 Malcolm Ellis 2012 Dan Elwick 2007 Gordon Emm 2009, 2013 Martin Emslie 2013, 2014, 2015 Marcus Escott 2006, 2007, 2008 Michael Evans 2008 Richard Everett 2013 Richard Eyley 2009 Natasha Eyre 2008 Steve Faber 2008, 2009, 2011 Richard Fagg 2009, 2014 John Fairhall 2008 Edward Farndale 2015 Sarah Fawcus 2011 James Felstead 2008 Richard Fenne 2008, 2009, 2010 Chris Fenton 2015 Michael Ferreira 2007 James Findlater 2008 Guy Flintoft 2015 John Forbes 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Alex Fordyce 2008 Anna Foreman-Peck 2013 Barry Fowler 2013 Toby Fox 2014, 2015 Oliver Fraser-Looen 2008 Ross French 2008 Tom Gamble 2013 Scott Gardner 2015 Simon Gawthorpe 2011 Pamir Gelenbe 2007 George Georgiou 2015 Dominic Gibson 2008 Lyndon Gill 2015 Nicholas Gill 2011 Russell Gillespie 2009 Ian Gleeson 2013 Tim Godwin 2008 Jonathan Goring 2010 Gordon Graham 2012 Edward Grant 2011 Will Grant 2007 Adrian Gray 2013, 2014 Kevin Gray 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 Peter Gray 2014 Tom Grieve 2014 James Griggs 2010 Adrian Grint 2015 Lisa Gunn 2010, 2011 Madush Gupta 2011 Timo Haedrich 2015 Steven Hale 2012 Giles Hanglin 2015 David Hanrahan 2014 Egon Hansen 2015 Julian Harbottle 2012, 2015 John Hardwick 2012 Paul Hargreaves 2009 Jonathan Harley 2014 Adam Harman 2008, 2009 Robert Harrold 2010 David Hart 2014 Stephen Haskins 2010 Patrick Hawkins 2009 Roger Hawkins 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 Rob Hayes 2014 Pat Hayes 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

David Head 2007, 2008 Richard Heath 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Angus Henderson 2010 Simon Henley 2012 Geoffrey Heppell 2013, 2015 Charles Hicks 2015 Paul Higgins-Drysdale 2008 Dan Higginson 2014, 2015 Christopher Hill 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 Nick Hill 2008 Mark Hindley 2008 Barry Hirst 2010 Ion Hobbs 2008 Tjaard Hoeksema 2012 Peter Holmes 2008 Chris Horn 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 James Horrocks 2008 Vernon Horsley 2008 Paul Hoskins 2010 Alexandra Houghton 2010, 2011, 2012 Richard Howard 2013 Nigel Howden 2010 James Hubbard 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 Joe Huddleston 2011 Barry Spencer Hughes 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 David Hughes 2008 Tim Hugill 2007 Kim Humphreys 2013 Ann Hunter 2014 Jason Hunter 2015 Alex Hutchinson 2015 Richard Hutchinson 2008 David Hutt 2014, 2015 Ian Insley 2011 Ruairidh Jackson 2015 Roseanna Jaggard 2013 Tom Jeffery 2011 Robert Jenkins 2011 Sarah Jenkinson 2015 Steve Johns 2007, 2013 Nick Johnson 2008 David Johnston 2008 Dominic Jones 2014 Mark Jones 2012 Stephen Jones 2015 Steve Jordan 2007, 2008 Paul Karakusevic 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Angus Kearin 2014 Rob Kemlo 2014 Justin Kenworthy 2015 Thom Kilvert 2009 David King-Smith 2008 Jaqui Labb 2008 Mark Lacey 2010 Stephen Lacey 2012 Peter Lakin 2008 Richard Lampert 2014 Richard Lanyon 2006 Steven Latham 2009 David Latter 2010 Suzi Lawrence 2006 Will Lee 2010 James Lewis 2008 Thibaut L’Hopital 2010, 2012 Mike Liddall 2008 Charles Liddington 2008 Mike Lightbound 2013, 2015 Nikki Linsell 2007 Deborah Lloyd 2014 Justin Lomas 2007, 2012 JJ Lorraine 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 Michael Lowe 2006, 2007, 2008 Nicholas Loweth 2015 Andrew Ludiman 2012 David Lunts 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Louis Lunts 2012 Stephen Lyon 2013, 2014, 2015 Euan MacGillivray 2011 Iain MacGregor 2012 Sally Mackay 2008 Roger Madelin 2010, 2015 Tim Marcot 2010 Rafael Marks 2008, 2010 Simon Marks 2008 Lee Marsden 2010 Simon Martin 2008 Matt Mason 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 David Massingham 2008 Alberta Matin 2008 Jon Matthews 2008, 2010 Rupert Maude 2008 Iain Maxwell 2014 James Mayhew 2013, 2014 Philip McArthur 2008 Samantha McClary 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Nick McDonald 2014, 2015 Roy McGowan 2014 Michael McKenna 2011 Alasdair McKenzie 2012 Patrick McKeogh 2007, 2008 Matthew McMillan 2015 Ross McQuillan 2012 Paul McSorley 2009 Richard Meier 2007 Anthony Mellalieu 2014 Andrew Miles 2015 Dominic Millar 2015 Adam Miller 2008, 2015 Ian Miller 2009, 2011 Tim Mockett 2013 Will Monk 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Angus Monteith 2013 Edward Moody 2007, 2008, 2014 Richard Moon 2013 Sadie Morgan 2015 Joe Morris 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Peter Morris 2011 Greg Moss 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 Evelyn Mullins 2013, 2015 Peter Murray 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015 Stuart Murray 2007 Tim Murray 2012 William Murray 2014 Roman Mykytyuk 2009 Tim Narey 2010, 2012, 2014 Jonathan Naughton 2011, 2014 William Nell 2015 James Neville 2006, 2007, 2012 Greg Niziskiotis 2014 David Noble 2013 Manuel Nogeira 2007 John Nordon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Christie O’Brien 2012 Ivan O’Toole 2008 Mike Oades 2013, 2014 Richard Oliver 2015 John Onken 2008 Steven Ossack 2008 Nigel Ostime 2008 Iain Painting 2014 Matt Palmer 2013 Clive Pane 2008, 2009 Nathan Pask 2011 Rory Paton 2014 John Pattison 2007, 2008 Douglas Paul 2009, 2012 Terry Pawson 2009, 2010, 2011 Tim Pearce 2014 Dominick Pegram 2014 Mike Peregrine 2009, 2010, 2011 Steve Perkins 2009, 2013 Anthony Petrilli 2008 Eduardo Petrilli 2009 Howard Phillips 2014 Jonathan Picardo 2008 Alex Pimley 2011 Richard Pinder 2013 Will Plowman 2009 Jeremy Plummer 2013 Richard Powell 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 Mary Power 2010 Sunand Prasad 2006, 2011, 2015 Allen Preger 2014, 2015 Martin Price 2014 Jason Prior 2009 Jim Prower 2007, 2013 Andrew Pryke 2008, 2009 Peter Ralph 2012, 2013, 2014 Christopher Ray 2010 Stephen Redfern 2009 Charmaine Rees 2015 Nick Rees 2009, 2010 Roland Reinardy 2008 Geoff Rich 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Philip Robins 2012 Anna Robinson 2010 Martin Robinson 2012 Martin Keith Rodwell 2007 David Rogers 2008 Annabel Rootes 2009, 2010, 2012 David Rosenberg 2007, 2008 Jennifer Ross 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Mark Rowan 2012 John Aulton Rudge 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 Andrew Russell 2010 Gordon Russell 2012 James Sadler 2013 Nick Sadler 2013 Oliver Sadler 2015 Nic Sampson 2006, 2007 Jonathan Sarfaty 2011 Andrew Scoones 2015 Oliver Scoular 2013 William Scoular 2011 Claire Scrutton 2012 Nick Searl 2011, 2013, 2015 David Seel 2015 Rob Seymour 2008 Maxwell Shand 2008 Matt Sharman 2015 Rupert Shaw 2009 Tony Siantonas 2007 Martin Silvester 2008 Dale Sinclair 2008 Charlie Sinton 2011 Mark Sitch 2015 Geoff Sloan 2010 Alex Smith 2008 David King Smith 2008 Misha Smith 2013 Paul Smith 2014 Simon Smith 2006 Edward Sneddon 2009 Peter de Soissons 2015 Gregor Sokalski 2011 Paul Southby 2014, 2015 Mark Spash 2011 Norman Speller 2008 Christian Spencer-Davies 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Gary Stanton 2014 Tom Starr 2008 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Robert Stickland 2012 Byron Stigge 2008 Gregg Stone 2013 Anna Strongman 2013 Annabel Sutherland 2014, 2015 Adam Swain-Fossey 2013 Ian Tapper 2012, 2014 David Taylor 2008, 2013, 2014 Lucy Taylor 2015 Mike Taylor 2009 Peter Terrell 2015 Mark Thomas 2008, 2011, 2012 Tim Thompson 2009 Robert Thomson 2009, 2010 Mike Thornton 2013 Simon Thorpe 2007, 2008 William Tilbury 2008 Jeremy Till 2007 Mark Tillett 2012, 2014 Stephen Tillman 2007 Andrew Toohey 2009, 2014 James Tottle 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Claire Treanor 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Chris Tredget 2015 Richard Trubshaw 2015 Jonathan Turk 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 Mike Turner 2010 Nick Turner 2009, 2011 Philip Turner 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015 Nigel Turpin 2010 Christopher Vause 2007, 2008 John Vigar 2008 Charles de Voil 2015 Tom Waddington 2014 Chris Wade 2012 Tom Wade 2015 Craig Wagstaff 2011 James Waite 2012 John Wallace 2011 Brendon Walsh 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Simon Walter 2012 Adrian Walters 2009 Alasdair Wardrop 2013 Geoff Watson 2015 Jonathan Watts 2013 Peter Watts 2011, 2012 Andrew Waugh 2010 Neil Webster 2012 John Welham 2008 Bob West 2010 David West 2013, 2015 Sam While 2013 Andrew White 2011 Ben White 2007, 2008 Craig White 2010 Matthew White 2010, 2011 James Whitehead 2011 Neil Whitney 2014, 2015 James Whittaker 2010 Mark Whittaker 2008, 2010 Steve Whyman 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Marcus Wilkins 2012 Chris Wilkinson 2011 John Williams 2014 Kristian Williams 2011 Mark Wills-Williams 2007 Matthew Williams 2011 Tom Williams 2014 Ian Williamson 2011 Gareth Wilson 2015 Ankur Wishart 2010 Richard Womack 2006, 2008 John Wood 2007, 2012 Paul Wood 2013, 2014, 2015 Steve Woolley 2011 Stewart Wright 2010 Nathan Wroughton 2013, 2014, 2015 Andy Yates 2015 Steven Yewman 2007, 2008 John Yexley 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

appendix

the originals 2006 James Burland Christopher Coombe Marcus Escott Chris Hill Richard Lanyon Suzi Lawrence JJ Lorraine Michael Lowe Matt Mason Peter Murray William Murray (driver) James Neville John Nordon Sunand Prasad John Rudge Nic Sampson Simon Smith Richard Womack

all the captains 2009-2015 James Burland 2011 Matthew Elliott deputy 2010 Richard Fenne 2009, 2010 John Forbes 2013, 2014, 2015 Kevin Gray 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 Adam Harman 2009 Pat Hayes 2011 Richard Heath 2015 Dan Higginson 2015 Alexandra Houghton 2011, 2012 JJ Lorraine 2012, 2013 Matt Mason deputy 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Samantha McClary 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Will Monk 2014, 2015 Joe Morris 2014, 2015 Greg Moss 2009, deputy 2010 Greg Niziskiotis 2014 John Nordon 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Richard Powell deputy 2010 Charmaine Rees 2015 Claire Scrutton 2012 Christian Spencer-Davies 2015 Philip Turner 2009 Steve Whyman 2012, 2014, 2015 Nathan Wroughton 2015

appendix

all the sponsors 2006-2015

3Fox International 2014 35 Fountain St 2013 360 Measurement 2010, 2012 3D Reid 2008 53N 2010 ACSN 2014 Adgenda Media Services 2012 Adjaye Associates 2015 Adrem 2007, 2008 Advanced SiFS 2015 AECOM 2013, 2014 Aedas 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 AHMM 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 AHR 2015 AKT 2007 AKTII 2014 Allsop 2007, 2008 Almacantar 2012, 2013 AModels 2008, 2014, 2015 Apex Lifts 2012 Ardent 2010, 2011 Argent 2007, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 Armadillo PR 2007 Armstrong Kent LLP/Fort Halstead 2009 Arup 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015 Ashurst 2007, 2009, 2011 Assurity Consulting 2013 Atisreal 2007, 2008 Atkins 2009 Atrium 2014, 2015 Aulton LLP 2015 AustinSmith:Lord 2010 Balfour Beatty 2012 BAM 2013 Bank of Scotland 2008 Barclays Corporate 2011 Barratt London 2012, 2014 Barton Willmore 2014, 2015 Beetham 2007 Bell Hammer 2014 Bell Pottinger 2012 Berkeley Group 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015 Bespoke Career Management 2013 BLP Insurance 2014 BLP Law 2013, 2014 Bluefin 2011 Bluu 2013 BNPPRE 2011 Bollingbrook 2014 Bouygues UK 2009, 2010 BPC Interiors 2009, 2010 Brett Consulting 2015 British Gas/Centrica 2013 British Land 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 Broadgate Estates 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 Broadway Malyan 2007 Brookfield 2014 Brookfield Multiplex 2015 Brookstreet Des Roches 2008 Brown & Carroll 2009, 2013 Bruntwood 2008 Buckley Gray Yeoman 2013 Bulb Interiors 2013 Buro Four 2007, 2008, 2014 Buro Happold 2008 Business Living 2007 Calibre 2015 Cameron Black 2009, 2013 Cameron McKenna 2011 Camlins 2014, 2015 Canary Wharf Group 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 Cannon Kirk 2007 Capco 2012 Capco/My Earls Court 2011 Capita Symonds 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 Capital & Counties Properties 2013 Carrillion 2012 CBRE 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 CBRE Global Investors 2012, 2013 Cedar House Investments 2015 Censum 2013 CEP Group 2012 Challenger 2010 Chapman BDSP 2014 Chris Dyson Architects 2015 Chris Horn Associates 2015 Climate Change Capital 2013 CMS Cameron McKenna 2007, 2008 Cofely 2014 Coffey Architects 2014 Colliers 2011, 2015 Collins Construction 2009 Commercial Links 2011 Condor 2012, 2013, 2014 Conveyancing Liability Solutions 2012 Coram 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Core 5 2015 Cousins and Cousins 2015 Criterion Capital 2008 Crofton Design 2012 Crosstree Real Estate Partners 2014, 2015 Crown Flooring 2009 Cube 2007 Cushman & Wakefield 2007, 2008, 2014 Davey Autos 2007 David Phillips 2011 David Taylor 2014 Davis Langdon 2008 Delancey 2011, 2014 Derwent London 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 Desso 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Development Securities 2007, 2008 Dexter Moren 2008 Dornan 2012 Dorrington 2014, 2015 Drapers Company 2007 Drivers Jonas 2008 Drivers Jonas Charitable Foundation 2009, 2010 Drooms 2014 DTZ 2011, 2013 Duggan Morris Architects 2014, 2015 Dyer 2008 Eat Natural 2009 EC Harris 2008 ECO of London 2014 Ediston 2007 Elite Electrical Contracts 2009, 2010 Elliott Wood 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 ESA 2007 Estates Gazette 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Farebrother 2011 Farm Street Real Estate Advisors 2011 Feilden + Mawson 2015 Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios 2015 Foster + Partners 2007 Foundation Developments 2009, 2010 Four Property 2014 Freshfields Bookhaus Deringer 2008 Fulcrum Consulting 2008 Future Designs 2012 Galliford Try 2008 Gamma 2014 Gardiner & Theobald 2008 GEA 2014 Glass Canvas 2014 GM Real Estate 2011, 2013 Grafton Advisors 2007 Graham Gill Consulting 2015 Graphicom 2008 Graphisoft 2008 Great Portland Estates 2014 Green Park 2007 Green Property 2007 Grimshaw 2008 GTA Interior 2012 GVA 2014 GVA Grimley 2007, 2010, 2011 Gymbox 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 H2SO 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 Haptic Architects 2015 Hartnell Taylor Cook 2007 Hawkins\Brown 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 Heasmans 2009 Helical Bar 2014 Helios Slough 2007 Henley Investments 2014 Herbert Smith 2011 Heyne Tillett Steel 2014, 2015 Hoare Lea 2008, 2011 Hobs 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Hogan Lovells 2013 HOK 2008, 2013, 2015 Howard de Walden Estates 2010 Howe & Chorus 2012 HSS 2009 Hub Rockingham 2015 Hurley Palmer Flatt 2015 Hypo Real Estate Bank International 2008 IBEX Interiors 2010 Iceni

2015 IDE-Architecture 2007 Imtech G & H 2009 Ingerop 2013 Invest in Nottingham 2010, 2014, 2015 Investec 2011 ISG 2007, 2014 ISG Interior Exterior 2007, 2008, 2009 Isis Waterside Regeneration 2008 IVG 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 IVG Asticus Real Estate 2007, 2008 J JLA Architects + Designers 2007 Jackson Coles 2014, 2015 Jaguar Building Services 2012, 2013, 2015 JLT 2010, 2015 John Forbes Consulting 2014, 2015 Jones Lang LaSalle 2008 JP Morgan Asset Management 2011 JTC Group 2015 Judd Farris Property Recruitment 2008 K&E Estates/Elements Europe 2009 Karakusevic Carson 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Kay Elliott 2012 Kier 2011, 2014 King Sturge 2007, 2008 Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross 2011, 2012 Knight Frank 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Knight Harwood 2014, 2015 KPMG 2012, 2014 Land Securities 2009, 2012, 2014 Landolt & Brown 2011 Laura Iloniemi Architectural Press & PR 2008 Lee Baron Group 2007 Lend Lease 2007 Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 Linklaters 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 Lomas Davies 2009 London & Continental Railways 2010 London Borough of Ealing 2011, 2012 Lovell 2013 Lunson Mitchenall 2014 M Moser Associates 2014 M2 2008 M3 Consulting 2012 Mace 2009 Malcolm Hollis 2010 Mapei 2012 Maples Teesdale 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 Maris Interiors 2014 Mark Smith Design 2014 Marks & Spencer 2014 McFarlane Latter 2010 MEPC 2008 Michael Lonsdale Group 2010 Minerva 2007, 2008 Modular Lighting 2009, 2010 Momentum Consulting Engineers 2015 Momentum Transport Planning 2014, 2015 Monarch Commercial 2011 Morrow + Lorraine 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Motive8 2013 Moxon Architects 2012 Mule Bar 2010, 2011, 2015 Muse Developments 2008 Nabarro 2014 Newforma 2014, 2015 Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners 2007 Norman Disney & Young 2007, 2008 Norton Rose 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 Not Just Cleaning 2014, 2015 Nurture Landscapes 2014 Obsidian FG 2010 Octink 2012 Optimum 2015 ORMS 2015 Pace Interiors 2009, 2010 Parkeray 2015 Parking Partners 2014 PCA 2007 Peel Holdings 2008 Pegasus Life 2014, 2015 Pensus 2008 Peter Brett Associates 2014 Phase II 2013, 2014, 2015 Philips Lighting 2009 Piper Smith Watton 2011 Pipers Projects 2007 Pixel Inspiration 2014 PK Decorators 2009 Plowman Craven 2007, 2008 Precedent 2010 Price & Myers 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Property Advisory Services 2013 Prospect & Peachgate Group 2009 PSS Group 2013 PwC 2012, 2013, 2014 QCIC 2012, 2013 Quality & Service 2015 Qube 2014, 2015 Reed Midem 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Renault 2009, 2010, 2011 RI Building Services 2009 Richard Rogers Partnership 2007 Rider Levett Bucknall 2010, 2011 RLB 2012, 2013, 2014 RLF 2007 Roadside Therapy 2015 Robinson Low Francis 2009, 2011 Rolfe Judd 2011 Rollright 2011 Royal Mosa 2011, 2012 RREEF 2007 RSK 2015 Russell-Cooke 2015 Ryder Architecture 2014 Salt & Pegram 2014 Sanne Group 2015 Sarah Wigglesworth Architects 2007 Savills 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 SecureWais 2015 Segro 2014, 2015 Service Corps 2015 Shaftesbury 2014 Signbrand 2014 Sir Robert McAlpine 2015 Sitematch London 2012, 2015 Skanska Rashleigh Weatherfoil 2007 SMART 2009, 2010, 2011 Space Syntax 2008, 2014 Spaghetti House 2008, 2009 Strutt & Parker 2007 Studio Costa 2009 Studio Egret West 2013 StudioFourFour 2011, 2012 Sturgis Carbon Profiling 2013 Sutton Young 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 SW Energy 2011, 2012 Symmetrys 2011, 2014, 2015 Terrell 2015 Terry Pawson Architects 2011 The Completely Group 2015 The Mall Corporation 2007 The Office Group 2014, 2015 The Shield Group 2015 TheTriTouch 2012, 2013, 2014 Tibbalds 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Title & Covenant 2013, 2014, 2015 Total Gas & Power 2014 Trust Estates 2015 UBS 2007, 2008 United House 2013 Velorose 2008 Wates 2007 Watts & Partners 2007, 2008 Westgreen Construction 2010 Whitbybird 2007 White & Case 2011, 2012 White Young Green 2008 Willmott Dixon 2012, 2015 Willowside Services 2009 Woods Bagot 2008, 2014 Wordsearch 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014 Workstation 2007 WYG 2014 Y Stand 2011

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