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.
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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 was great fun [...]
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 2,000 metres [...]
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). The riders [...]
