Race Blog

The Baronnies are the foothills of the pyreneese mountains out towards the tourmalet. This event is run every 2 years with the objective being to attract as many women as possible each year. Im the 'god mother' of the event and this will be my second ride. last event, two years ago, was brutal with over 3000m of elevation change and loads of red for comfort afterwards....94kms

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/lesbaronnies/

La Luchonnaise is 125kms with 2380m of climbing, out of Luchon up the valley and up the col d'ares, out towards Aspet, over the col de Burret and back over the col d'ares the other way before attacking the ever so long and pretty steep climb up to Peyragudes....up the first climb someone hit my derailleur causing a bit of leaning which wasnt a problem...the problem was I was left with 4 gears to choose from and not quite optimal for hanging in the first group...I could either use my 12,15,21, or 27....so i suffered through and climbed as i could finishing in 4h12 or so at just under 30kph....a

MAY1st-st Caprais de Bordeaux-trail race, 22kms over hill and dale and lots of mud!

MAY4th UFOLEP category 2 men's race in Muret

RACE 3 February 3rd-COLOGNE-in the wild west of Le Gers we had 30kms of trail, fields, some nice single downhillish sections in the woods and guess what? It was fairly dry!

April 20th....

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Ok! Up at 6, are we happy!! drive through the fog in -4 and here we are at the start of the Lomagne Challenge, a series of three mountian bike races in the gers (32) region of France where the locals live on wine and foie gras and somehow have the lowest cholesterol in france! go figure!!