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Basement ahoy!
Yesterday marked the start of the indoor training season. I had hoped to stretch it out into mid-December, but Mother Nature has foiled that plan with a sprinkling of snow that far from being fun or...
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Annual Time Trial
For the second consecutive year I participated in a terrific event organized by one of the local bike shops, Cycle Paul. Not only is it an opportunity for local riders to showoff their season in one...
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Climbing through Europe: Col de la Madeleine
I’d better be clear right from the get go. This new series that’ll run through the winter months is indeed about my experiences climbing some of the big names in Europe, but make no mistake, I’m not...
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Climbing through Europe: Col de Peyresourde
My second documented climb takes me to the Pyrenees and a mountain pass on the border of the Haute-Garonne and Haute-Pyrénées in France: le col de Peyresourde. What could be more splendid than another...
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Climbing through Europe: Col du Tourmalet
If ever there is a climb that is synonymous with pain and suffering, the Col du Tourmalet is it. At 6,939ft it is the highest road in the central Pyrenees and I wish I could say that it felt like …...
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Climbing through Europe: Santa Lucia-Pocol
For the first time on my European tour we are in the Dolomites, and stunning it is too. Well, a mountain is a mountain, especially on this 23″ LCD screen that I am pedalling in front of, but still,...
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Sprinting through Europe: Le Creusot – Montceau-les-Mines, Stage 19 TDF 2006
Stage 19 of the 2006 Tour de France was the final individual time trial, and so by this point the general classification was almost set. Still, a time trial can always pull out some surprises, and...
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Sprinting through Europe: Salzburg World Championships 2006
I opted for another varied course today as opposed to battling it out on more vertical slopes for kilometre after kilometre. This time it was a section of the 2006 World Championship course in...
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Climbing through Europe: Monté Bondone
Finally back on the bike after 6-days off. It wasn’t only Christmas and the usual excesses that kept away from some of Europe’s most desirable climbs: I was also totally out for the count for 36-hours....
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Climbing through Europe: Mont Ventoux
The big one. Rather The Big One. One of the most feared and fearsome rides that there is. One to be respected. One to be ridden. One to be ridden in person I have discovered. The Mont Ventoux climb is...
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Nailed It!
Yeah, nailed a fast one Wednesday morning. Solo ride, as usual, winds blowing 25 km/h SW with gusts up to 35 km/h. Direction: due west for the first 15 km, then NW, W, SW, S, SE and finally east for …...
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