Entry sorted
Accomodation sorted
Weight - unsorted
Training - unsorted
Only 30 miles so far this week (5 days), looks like a heavy weekend after a Saturday that looks distinctly diy-ridden.
I'm beginning to be suspicious of next years etape route. What's the catch compared to 2007?
Sure, the Tourmalet is indeed a 'bad detour' and will be, if not the 'mother of all killer climbs', at least a very close relative. Hautacam should probably be renamed Hurtacam but, if that is all, we seem to be getting off lightly compared to the attempted murder to which this years etappers were subjected.
Would I be right in assuming that there will be a reduced time allocation next year, and that the broom wagons will come hurtling after us piloted by Lewis Hamilton? Are the climbs hiding something their profiles don't show? Is there no oxygen at those altitudes? Time will tell.
About Me
- Clive Handy
- Reforming fat bloke, who resurrected his life by cycling a stage of the Tour de France in 2008, and failed miserably to repeat the exercise in 2012 at the tender age of 50. Yes, it is a mid-life crisis and no, it's probably not cheaper than a sports car. Now trying to be the new millennium's version of Tom Good
They are the Egg-men
I am the Walrus (Coo-coo-ca-choo)
Oh Hell!! Where are the brakes?
Cheshire Cat Sportive March 2007
The only way is up
Bealach Mhor Challenge September 2007
Almost there.....Etape 2008
Bottom of Hautacam and still smiling
1 comment:
Nothing hidden in the climbs-though if riders aren't used to the conditions, they'll be tough.
Far from being a shortened time, the organisers will revert to normal time-there was an hour added this year to take account of the unfriendly nature of the terrain
You'll love it if you've done the training
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