2012 Etape du Tour Announced
Next year’s two Etapes du Tour have just been put up on their website. Here is what we are looking at: Act One: Sunday, July 8th. Albertville – La Toussuire-Les Sybelles (Stage 11 of next year’s TdF)...
View ArticleEtape du Tour 2012, Act One: Hurt Minus Two
I’m sitting here in Le Sud, a couple of days after what you are about to read, and a sleep away from a rental car and our trip to the Pyrenees for Act Two. In short, this will be short. … Continue...
View ArticleEtape du Tour 2012, Act One: Hurt Minus One
On the agenda the day before the race was a short ride, a strategy meeting or two, final bike tinkerings and, for me at least, one final big beer (a tradition I have convinced myself that works). The...
View ArticleEtape du Tour 2012, Act One: Hurt
Predictably, after an amazing Saturday of sunshine and dead calm, Sunday began with gusting winds and rain. I’m not sure how many fair-weather cyclists jammed on the whole event because of this, but...
View ArticleYou Must Be High!
Last year I discovered a new sportive / gran fondo-type race called the Haute Route (and wrote about it here) and Coach Rob, relisher of all things physically painful, apparently got stuck on the idea....
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