“Routes des Ventoux” Cyclosportive
By Will • Sep 7th, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, CyclosportivesEpic.
Archive for the ‘Cyclosportives’ Category
The Gruyère Cycling Tour (The Big Cheese)
By Will • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, Cyclosportives, JurasToday, Barry, Martin, Fabian Cancellara and I rode the Gruyère Cycling Tour.
La Marmotte 2008 - Success!
By Will • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, Cyclosportives, FavoritesAlong with “L’Etape du Tour” - it is probably the most famous - and one of the the most challenging - Cyclosportive in France.
174 kilometres (108 miles) and 5,000 metres vertical ascent (16,400 feet)!
La Grand Bo Cyclosportive 2008
By Will • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, CyclosportivesMy fourth cyclosportive this June (versus only three the previous 42 years).
Wow! La Morzine Vallée d’Aulps Cyclosportive
By Will • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, CyclosportivesOver 140 kilometres with about 3,400 metres climb (+11,000 feet) in a heat wave.
2008 Time-Megève Mont-Blanc Cyclosportive
By Will • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, CyclosportivesWow, I am tired!
Attracting several thousand riders, the Time-Megeve cyclosportive is one of the bigger cycling events in France.
Cyclotour du Léman - La Montagnarde
By Will • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, CyclosportivesThe Cyclotour du Léman has several thousand people cycling around Lake Geneva.
There is also a mountain route through the Juras (only about 160 people) and since I circled the lake last year, this year I chose “La Montagnarde.”
Gruyere Cycling Tour
By Will • Aug 26th, 2007 • Category: Cycling, Cyclosportives, FavoritesFreshly returned from Wales, I was up at 5:00 am to pick up Martin and Barry and head to Gruyere, Switzerland for the 125 km Gruyere Cycling Tour. A challenging but fantastic route through the Alps across three medium cols. Final count showed over 2000 participants and the first hour or so [...]
The Vosges Mountains - Alsace, France
By Will • Jul 1st, 2007 • Category: Climbs, Cycling, Cyclosportives, TouringI am in Alsace, France meeting up with several Americans and a Canadian for some cycling in the Vosges mountains. All very nice guys - ranging from good to VERY strong cyclists.
Sunday – to “warm-up” - we rode in the Col des Vosgiens cyclosportif. The route was 173 kms and well over [...]
My First Centuries - Lake Geneva Loop
By Will • May 27th, 2007 • Category: Cycling, Cyclosportives, TouringAlthough I bike a lot, until today I had never cycled 100 kms - a century. Today I not only rode a metric century but an imperial century as well.
Today Martin and I rode in the annual cyclo tour of Lake Geneva (a 176 kilometres around the lake - starting in Lausanne). [...]
