L’Etape Social Riding to Nîmes
Being part of L’Etape du Tour 2019 Social Riders programme was an amazing experience, not least of all because we were invited as VIP guests to the Tour de France Stage 16 in Nîmes. Access to the Start Village Access to the Signature Podium Access to the Press Centre and Technical Zone Access to the …
Social Riding L’Etape du Tour 2019
Fontainebleau Stop-off
We’d travelled to the Chamonix in our van to give us some flexibility… Would the weather mean we’d need to go elsewhere? Would we drive to Zermatt? Would Brexit mean our return date needed to change? Would we want to stop off at Fontainebleau for some bouldering action on the way home? All of these …
Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!
Laetitia and I had planned to do the Haute Route with Ian, Rachel and Andy, and Dawn and Austin several months earlier. However, first Ian had to drop out due to work commitments. Then Austin had to bail because of illness. And now as we arrived in Chamonix Laetitia had caught a wicked flu from …
Three Valleys Skiing
Joining Dave, Dean, and Jon in the Three Valleys for a week of skiing was always going to involve a lot of fast skiing action! With us all, eventually as Jon resisted the allure of the tech, logging our days out with various GPS enabled Apps on our phones we were able to capture an …
Cheeky Weekend Skiing
La Marmotte
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 …