Rosie and Lolotte, two “locas” leaving for Cambodia
|Lolotte et Rosie, deux amazones pleines de surprises. Midi Libre – Mikaël ANISSET
From March 12 to 21, Laure and Rosario, two joyful and sporty women from Nîmes, will join the adventure of the Amazon Raid, an extraordinary experience in a film setting: The Temples of Angkor in Cambodia .
Run, cycle, paddle in the middle of nature while rubbing shoulders with the daily life of the Cambodian people in the region of the Angkor Temples. This is the challenge that Laure Geles and Rosario Garcia, in their explosive fifties, intend to take on between March 12 and 21 as part of the famous Amazon Raid, under the banner Las locas.
A decision on a whim when Laure, called Lolotte (at the helm of the Le Comptoir de Lolotte restaurant in Nîmes, Editor's note), firmly determined to experience new strong emotions sportingly and humanly speaking, proposes to her client, Rosario, known as Rosie , to become his sidekick. She accepts immediately. "We are both sporty and have experience in terms of slightly crazy challenges,” laughs Rosie. Lolotte, 57, is not one of them indeed, not at his first attempt. A lifelong racing fan, in 2019 she decided to participate in the Rose des sables trophy. A revelation. "I loved driving in the desert. For me, it was a great experience. Besides, afterwards I promised myself to attempt a great adventure every two years. In 2021, it was the Rose Trip which selected her for a running race in the desert. "Sportingly, of course, it's great, but on a human level we share very intense things.
Everything is possible
For this new meeting, Lolotte is delighted to share the sporting events with a host of motivated women, some of whom are in remission from cancer and who will fight fully to go to the end. And show that it’s possible. That everything is possible. I feel close to them, even though I have been in remission from thyroid cancer for 30 years.
In terms of experience, Rosie, 51, is not left out. The blonde Iberian tornado, an anatomy technician in the laboratory in Nîmes, has some great exploits to her credit. New York marathon, Chinese wall marathon in Beijing, month-long humanitarian race in the middle of India… "Everyone can do it. The hardest part is putting on your sneakers and covering the first five kilometers,” she assures with a smile. “Not to mention her television experiences. Cast and selected in Nîmes in 2009 to participate in Pekin Express (M6), an offer she declined because her partner was not selected. So we went to do the Chinese Wall marathon together" ; she participated in the show Five Tourists in Portugal. "A show in which each candidate had to explain how they traveled. For me it was definitely with sneakers in my luggage.
A team with unfailing motivation, who marvel at having almost succeeded in raising the sum necessary for their Cambodian participation, i.e. more than 8,000 euros. "We imagined several things. Lotteries, the sale of ham in restaurants, but also by creating placemats that I will offer to my fellow restaurateurs, on which several advertising inserts allowed sponsors to buy advertising" ;. As a result, the two Amazons have 900 euros left to win by the start of March. To support them: www.onparticipe.fr/c/354Gy6oc.