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From l'Etape Course 2019
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From Steady Away
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From A Break in the Training
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From L'Etape du Tour 2019
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From La Marmotte
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From Bourg d'Oisans
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From Vosges
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From Couple of Days of Work & a Big "Pikey Dodging" Cycle Ride
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From More awesome Bank Holiday weather
Category: Biking
Two wheel action, not covered by Cycling (on-road cycling), Mountain Biking (off-road cycling), Motor Biking, etc.
Exactly one month to go and the official course for l’Etape du Tour 2019 has been published. We knew what the course was already of course, but having the official map is nice, and it also shows a bit more detail about the locations of feeding stations etc. What with first fracturing my ankle and …
Three weeks ago I managed to fall, not far and not fast, off a rock climb in Buttermere. I was unlucky to hit a small (10cm x 10cm) ledge with my left foot in that fall. If I’d fallen 10cm less far or to either side I’d have missed the ledge, been embarrassed but totally …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
Finally starting to get to grips with the training programme for this year’s l’Etape du Tour – from Albertville to Val Thorens (where we were skiing only a couple of months ago), 135km and over 4000m of climbing. This year Laetitia is doing it too, so that should be great fun – the atmosphere of …
My training plan for the Marmotte had gone badly! The plan to start getting fit for a serious attempt at going around the 174km course as fast as I was able was stopped dead in its tracks just when it was supposed to really get going after Xmas 2017. A couple of months later (after …
We arrived in Bourg d’Oisans literally just as Rachel had been involved in a crash with a car! I was driving down the main street in to town and there, sprawled on the road, was a bloodied Rachel looking totally dazed and surrounded by people…
On our trip south for the Marmotte we decided to break up the journey… This had several benefits – We visited Belgium and saw the Atomium in Brussels, We visited Luxembourg City, We saved a massive amount of money on tolls by not using French motorways, and We happened across the Vosges Mountains…
The weekend was dominated by two days of work, but at least it was fun work – mostly gorge bashing with super exciting big jumps in to pools of lovely cool Lakeland water…
While the south of England is cloaked in fog and Birmingham suffers from flash flooding the north west is continuing to bask in glorious wall-to-wall sunshine!
