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Cent Cols – Day 4

155km, 6:45:48, 2,829m ascent, 12 cols, 47 total so far The day started straight up the first climb of the day – Col du Chioula. We rode with the “Ozzie Coyotes” plus Scott, Rebecca and Peter. It was a great … Continue reading

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Cent Cols – Day 3

216km, 9:14:20, 3,768m ascent, 21 cols, 35 total so far. Breakfast was at 7:15am this morning as this was likely to be the longest day of the whole tour. Charlesy was already up and away leaving in the semi darkness … Continue reading

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Cent Cols – Day 2

199.5km, 8:56:18, 3,751m ascent, 11 cols, 14 done in total The day started heading out on the main road through Andorra. We rode as a group which helped make a rather boring road a bit more interesting. Andorra city again … Continue reading

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Cent Cols – Day 1

186k, 3,247m ascent, 8:03:48 ride time, 3 cols We’ve just got in ahead of a big storm which is needed as it was a hot with the final ascent done in 37c !! I’ve certainly demonstrated that my riding coming … Continue reading

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Cent Cols – Prologue

57km, 218m ascent, 1:51:13 ride time,  0 cols We arrived at Ian and Julies great place in the Pyrenees, unpacked bikes, had lunch and then had a briefing on the 11 days ahead of us. Following that a group of … Continue reading

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A Day On Camp

Today was meant to be the iconic day of the first Everyday Training Pyrenees KOM camp. We set off early to be driven round to the far side of The Tourmalet to start a classic point to point day over … Continue reading

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Unorthodox Roth Preparation

It’s been over 4 months since an entry on the blog. It has been intentional, the reasons for which I may go in to in a later blog post but for now I’d like to just write a little about … Continue reading

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Ride Support

This months column is almost polar opposite to last months where I went through thoughts on a solo ride, this month I’d like to run you through a day of ride support on a training camp. Back in May Jo … Continue reading

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Epic France – Epilogue

As ever Epic Camp was an amazing experience. The phrase is normally “once in a lifetime” but since I’ve done four that’s not quite right. I feel lucky that I started Epic Camps whilst there were still a few to … Continue reading

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Epic France – Day 8

Swim: 0km Bike: 175km / 2,650m Run: 0k Hours: 6h29 Final day of the camp and I finally slept well. I felt like others looked – dog tired. I think a huge part of this is mental. The end is … Continue reading

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