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3 June 2026
This month Jason Smith takes on the 3:2:1 Cycle Challenge – cycling 320km around Mont Blanc, through three countries, with 8,000m of elevation, to raise funds to support cancer patients and to honour his childhood best friend, Dave.
Jason Smith, 55, an AI Transformation Leader from Teddington, explains why he’s doing the 3:2:1 Cycle Challenge on his podcast, Midlife Athlete, with The London Clinic’s Clinical Psychologist Dr Rupali Kulshreshtha.
The stats say 1 in 2 of us will get a form of cancer at some point in our lives. With those odds, even if we’re lucky, we’ll have a family member or a good friend who gets diagnosed.
My good friend, David Topping, passed away earlier this year from oesophageal cancer. Dave and I were childhood friends, we went to the same local comp in Chepstow… we went to each other’s weddings and we lived fairly close by.
To honour my friend, I wanted to make a difference, and I will be riding in his memory and honouring his life by improving care for others. It’s why I created the 3:2:1 Challenge. A means for those of us who are lucky to make a difference for the family and friends who make up the 1 in 2 stat.
The 3:2:1 Challenge will see me – and a team of fellow riders – cycle more than 320 kilometres with approximately 8,000 metres of elevation across France, Italy and Switzerland, completing a full circuit of Mont Blanc in just two days between 27-28 June.
It’s roughly the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest on a bike in two days. I felt it needed to be big for a number of reasons, and it does require training, that’s for sure!
When you see someone as physically active as David was, he did triathlons, he ran a lot, he cycled and you see them literally confined to a bed as they don’t have the strength to walk around, you do feel a sense of powerlessness, but if you’re fit and able, you can do something to help.
I’ll be raising funds for The London Clinic’s Cancer Care Oncology ‘Quiet Room’ – a space where families receive news they never wanted to hear – and a VR experience to help patients deal with the pain. The Oncology Quiet Room is a space where families can receive important news, reflect, and speak openly with staff in comfort and privacy.
To honour my friend, I wanted to make a difference, and I will be riding in his memory and honouring his life by improving care for others.Jason Smith, Fundraiser
What the stats don’t come anywhere close to revealing is the impact it has — on the sufferer, and on those around them.
So when Dave was first admitted into hospital (not The London Clinic), I went to see him and he was saying about a guy who was literally opposite him who’d been told he had a week to live on an open ward. Dave didn’t want to hear that and I’m sure the guy who was told that didn’t really want to hear that on an open ward. It’s the little things that make a massive difference when you’re going through something like that.
I’m part of a podcast called Midlife Athlete, which I co-host with Greg Ryan. In our latest podcast we were joined by The London Clinic’s Clinical Psychologist Dr Rupali Kulshreshtha to discuss why so many of us turn to extreme physical feats in the wake of loss and how athletes can navigate their own mortality.
Listen to the podcast here
