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12-09-12, 11:29 AM
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Re: The Cycling Thread
Right, I know its early days but I reckon the summers gone now for this year so has anyone started making plans for next year yet ? I'm hoping to do a couple of sportives, not sure where yet but I think ones in Scotland, so what about you guys ?
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12-09-12, 11:36 AM
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Not made any big plans for next year, but I'll definitely be doing the Wild Wales Challenge Sportive again in 2013. Might have another go at the Dentdale Beast because that broke me, need to go back and have a word with myself on that.
In the meantime I think I will be doing this as my final sportive of the year. http://www.roadsportives.co.uk/ruthin.php
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12-09-12, 11:37 AM
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Interesting sportive....that's linking me to the IB threads are like books in a library...
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12-09-12, 11:40 AM
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Gah! Fixed!
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12-09-12, 11:45 AM
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Quite fancy this one next year
http://www.sportivescene.co.uk/gallo...sportive-2012/ |
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12-09-12, 12:03 PM
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12-09-12, 12:06 PM
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Shame that that's the day I'm moving into uni because I would have come
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12-09-12, 12:06 PM
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Stewie I'd be up for that. Would you stay up there?
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12-09-12, 04:28 PM
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Which I'm not kidding! Yesterday we climbed Alpe d'Huez in hot sunshine, today we left our base to climb the Col de la Croix der Fer, 3km in it started to rain, and rain some more, and then even more. We pulled over into a bus shelter, as a group of Brits went back down from the ascent, which we hadn't even started. They shouted turn back! So we called our tour people and they picked us up. We drove up the climb and didn't see 1 cyclist and only 1 car on the way up. We went down the Glandon descent. Rockfalls and a Polish HGV trying to climb the Glandon from the other side made for interesting trip. The HGV is either stuck or fallen off the mountain, as there was a hairpin bend, it was never going to get round. Got to our new base, dried off and went for a beer. When we got back, a group of Brits were just arriving on their bikes, having gone over the Madeline in snow!!! The first of this year. No plans for next year although I would like to do Ventoux, but that could be done in a long weekend. It is the 100th anniversary of the TDF next year, so maybe go see a good stage somewhere?
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