Race Events

ITS OFFICIAL! THE 2nd ANNUAL LA MARION CLIGNET fund ride for research on epilepsy will be held sunday May 30th in Lisle Jourdain, more information to come soon!!!

What a day that was! Last sunday I set off at 8h45am to run my first (non injured) marathon. I took off with my training partner, Arnaud, who I had broken my semi record with a few weeks prior and we opted to set off on a 4.10 per kilo pace which would have us finish in just under 3h. All started well, at the 5kms mark we were spot on, at 9kms though Arnaud started to fade a tad but hung on until the 10kms mark when he told me he wasnt well.

octobre 5 at the start of the Tournefeuill half marathon a friend I run with introduced me to a friend of his and said hey, you two should run together, youre both the same level and you'll keep eachother from accelerating. I had run a 1h28 and this guy wanted to run a 1h26...still unsure of where i could go with this i said ok and if youre too fast youre on your own! So, off we went, looking at our watches every km and we stayed right with in our forecasted time both running to a pr of 1h25. Nice day! Last little jaunt before the Toulouse marathon was sunday oct 19, the albi duathlon.

2.5kms of ocean swimming and I dont really know how to swim! the first 300m were ok, i was actually in the peleton then suddenly we turned and the women were swimming away. I turned again and suddenly heard 500 men that were coming in about to swim over the top of me. The swim then became like the high speed spin cycle in the washing machine and I was all but having fun. My only consolation was to wait till I got onto dry land....

Soon as I stepped last out of the water, my friend Jessica yelled to me youre 19 minutes down. I had 80kms on the bike to catch back up....

Goodness, I have been so tired!The week after the Auch triathlon and the 156 mountain ride I jogged once, did a tempo run that about cracked me and in the pouring rain no less a few easy rides, a swim and a round trip to Paris that really dug into my reserves though it was good fun. the week before Lyon I seriously couldnt fathom how I d have the energy to run 21kms....I slept, rode a bit, did one tempo run with athlé632 the club I train with but really had to kick my own butt to finish the distance.

The Auch Triathlon was a bit short for my liking but the prize money was truly worth trying! I had opted for the previous month to test drive ovalish shaped chainrings to see what the fuss was about.
These are probably not bad for specific type of riders but for someone who has spent a lot of time on a fixed gear I really felt like I lost time on them on certain courses....

Ornolac trail run

For the second year running, the Etape du Tour will be in the Pyrenees mountains on Sunday 6th July. The Etape is taken from Stage 10 of the TDF. The 165km route will see 8000+ riders departing Pau, climbing the Tourmalet from the East side to descend to Argeles Gazost and then finish at the mountain summit of the Hautacam.

http://www.letapedutour.com/