Just back from holidays and to find an email from Tony "Flamme Rouge" pointing others here...
Only problem with going away is that makes keeping blog up to date a bit tricky and I haven't posted for a while here and now guilty for not doing so...
In a nutshell what's happened over last few weeks
Went to France and rode first ever French sportives in the "Trophee D'Oisans" which consists of 2 full 175km sportives: the Vaujany and the Marmotte in on 2 successive weekends + a mise en bouche for the Marmotte of les Grandes Rousses (up Alpe d'Huez, down then up to Vaujany, a mere 6km@10%). Finally you can grimpe the alpe on the Sunday morning after the Marmotte has finished.
Had a thoroughly good time, spent enjoying the hospitality of the King of the Mountains team, Helyn and Guy. All the events went well, Vaujany done in 7:10 despite a puncture, Grandes Rousse in just over 2 hours including a 58" climbe of the Alple (to the top 300m short of tour finish) 7:34 in the Marmotte and 1:03 in the Grimpe (last being very much a case of a sore head on a sore body after much post Marmotte celebrations.)
Marmotte was a real surprise as pretty much dead on target time of 7:30 made all the more suprising by fact that during the event I did not have any time measure, just power.
Returned last Monday and since them done first ever cycling in Scotland on great SUS08 event, that made 3rd mountain finish in 3 weeks, to Lowther hill. Not quite as high as ADH but definitely steeper in parts.
May write more about all above shortly, but right now thinking ahead to last 2 sportives (Legbreaker and Tour of the Black Mountains.) Then thinking about doing a 12 TT.
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