On Tuesday May 3rd, day three of the challenge, in the company of Lesley Phillips, Malmaison Leeds Events Manager and Charlie Wilson, Malmaison Leeds Accounts, the riders set off from Leeds for a relatively short ride to the NHS Blood and Transplant blood donor centre in Bradford where they were given a warm welcome by the staff who provided tea and biscuits — without asking them to donate blood first! Then it was a ride along the canal towards Skipton. In Keighley the baton was taken over by Andrew Tosh from the Leeds Malmaison. The second half of the day was a long hard slog up and over the Pennines followed by a relatively gentle ride along the River Wenning and River Lune valleys to Lancaster where they met up with DGM Matt Townley and Steven Frei, Sous Chief Malmaison Liverpool.

Distance covered: 81 miles.

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