Why You Should

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had someone trying to persuade you to sign up to Le Cure.

What’s more, you probably haven’t dismissed the idea out of hand… which means we have good news for you: you’re on the way to making one of the best decisions you’ve ever made.

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To get the awkward bit out of the way first:

Le Cure is hard. There’s no getting round that. If it wasn’t hard, it wouldn’t be worth doing and it would be significantly trickier to persuade sponsors to part with their cash – which means we’d have raised significantly less money for cancer research, and had a significantly smaller impact on breast cancer treatment and diagnosis.

So yes, it’s hard. But it’s achievable. Agonising, but achievable. Painful, but passable. Sore, but surmountable. Le Cure may be one of the hardest thing you ever do, but you will do it – truly everyone can – and you’ll feel incredible when you do. 

If you join us in 2026, you’ll be making your way up some of the highest mountain passes in the Alps, several of which non-cycling people will have heard of, because they’re that high, and they’re that impressive. We know this to be true, because a huge number of Curistas (including the founders) are non-cycling people.

Those famous climbs are incredibly persuasive when it comes to sponsors, but they’re also incredible things to achieve. One four day ride, and you’ll have knocked off Galibier, Iseran, Izoard, and a bunch of other climbs that will make hardened pedal-pushers look at you in awe.

And then, of course, there’s the outcome: the chance to contribute to the £3.8m we’ve already raised, and a chance to play a genuinely sizeable part in the quest to cure cancer. As you’ll see elsewhere on this site, Le Cure has already made a massive difference to how breast cancer is diagnosed, monitored and treated the world over, and, because the ride is volunteer-run and self-funded, every single sponsorship penny you earn with those metres you’ll be climbing will go straight to fuelling that engine, and straight to felling that vicious disease.

We don’t have to tell you what a bastard cancer is: statistics suggest that if you’re old enough to be reading this, you’re old enough that it will have affected you or someone you love.

This is your chance to do something about it. Your chance to join an incredible crew. Your chance to do an incredible thing.

This is your chance to become a Curista. And there really is no better time than now.