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From Awesome Multi-Activity Weather in the Lakes
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From I've entered the Marmotte 2018!
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From l'Etape du Tour 2017
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From Last long training ride ... the Fred Whitton Challenge de Staveley
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From l'Etape du Tour Route
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From Scorchio through the Trough of Bowland and on up Kingsdale and down Dentdale
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From l'Etape du Tour Training Progress
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From Cycling ... Carbon Fibre versus Steel
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From l'Etape du Tour Training Finally Starts...
Category: Biking
Two wheel action, not covered by Cycling (on-road cycling), Mountain Biking (off-road cycling), Motor Biking, etc.
When the weather is as good as this the Lakes are unbeatable! Three super sunny days on a bank holiday weekend – brilliant. But for once we didn’t give every day over to rock climbing. Instead we made a plan that had each day dedicated to a different outdoor pursuit…
The 2017 Etape du Tour was an utterly incredible day! And the build up and training that got me to the finish line was fantastic too. So for 2018 I decided I should do something similar…
To try and gain some altitude acclimatisation in preparation for the l’Etape du Tour, I’d cycled up to the Col du Galibier (2642m) from La Grave, did a high level ridge walk from the Col de Granon, climbed a ten pitch rock climb that started at 2189m, and finished by sleeping the night at the …
The Etape du Tour is just around the corner. So with tapering of training efforts in mind to give legs every chance to fully recover the weekend saw the last big training effort, the Fred Whitton Challenge. The Fred Whitton is a circuit of the Lakes that takes in all of the major mountain passes …
It’s the ultimate amateur cycling challenge – riding a stage of the Tour de France during the Tour de France and under race conditions. Yep, it’s the one and only l’Etape du Tour. The official route map and time schedule have been published for the 2017 l’Etape do Tour. It’s a very long ride with …
Yesterday was super scorchio (hot). Apparently it’s some kind of record (since 1976) for the number of days where temperatures have reached 30°C in England! So maybe it wasn’t the best day to go for a massive cycle ride? But training for l’Etape du Tour continues, and it may well be super hot in the …
My training for the l’Etape du Tour is progressing. It started just four weeks ago with a tough hilly ride of just 37k. Yesterday I managed a 104k ride and I’ve completed two of Strava’s challenges for the month, the Gran-Fondo (100k in a single ride) and the April climbing challenge (7,500m of climbing).
Twenty-five years after I gave up competitive cycling. This year I went and bought a new road bike! What was I thinking? Have I some how forgotten the endless hours of pain and loneliness out on the road? Or the misery of riding in the rain? Or maybe I’ve simply gotten caught up in the …
Well, the l’Etape du Tour training started in earnest today… I’m too not sure how to feel about my performance, but I guess it was the first time out on my bike for over a year so I shouldn’t feel too bad. I managed just over 37k, but was I totally knackered on the climbs! …
