One More City is an annual cycling campaign held every October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

With the ethos, ‘the journey is never over'; we are always progressing towards the next city, there are always more kilometres to do, more climbs to conquer, and more challenges to face,’ One More City reflects the reality of living with cancer, where the challenge is ongoing – there are always more treatments to endure, more scans to face, and more side effects to manage.

The campaign focuses on raising awareness of secondary breast cancer and funding innovative research into this disease, which claims the lives of 31 women a day in the UK alone.

Founded by Christine O’Connell, a keen cyclist diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer in 2018, One More City has raised over £450,000 in the UK to date, funding three PhD students.

Our first PhD student, Kasté Jurgaityté, completed her research in the Breast Cancer Resistance Lab at Imperial College London, investigating a new drug for secondary breast cancer. Our second student, Hwei Minn Khoo, started in October 2023. Her research, a collaboration between The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and Imperial College London, aims to create new treatment options for secondary breast cancer patients.

Our third student, Shaun Tan, began at the ICR in November 2024. The current campaign is focused on funding a Clinical PhD Fellowship at the ICR.

In collaboration with Rapha, One More City consists of a multi-day ride between two European cities and a series of one-day rides held in October in multiple cities around the world. 

Through these one-day rides, we support the University of California, San Francisco, Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) in New York, and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne.

Photo credit: Vincent Engel