End of Lockdown

I hope you and your families are well.

All is well here. But I must admit that two months without cycling has not been fun. My enthusiasm for the home trainer has failed to grow. 🙂

In France, as of May 11, we will be permitted to travel within a 100km radius. Here’s my circle.

A recent tweet: 🙂

While obviously not remotely important:

It is slightly "amusing" that Monday, the first day after the strict lockdown here in France, the local forecast is for more rain than the entire past 2 months combined. 🙂 #cycling

— cyclingchallenge (@cyclingalps) May 7, 2020

Of course, my near term plans will likely just cycling from home. Fortunately, I live under Mont Salève which has lots of interesting road and gravel options. As soon as the storms pass I will be cycling (slowly) up my beloved mountain:

Guess the Cycling Climbs

If interested, during the lockdown I’ve been running a “Guess the Cycling Climb” series of tweets. See here for an example. On Twitter, search the hashtag #gtccw to find quite a few. Just a silly way to hopefully distract a few people, especially myself.

Be well.

7 Comments

Jerry durkan on May 8, 2020 5:36 pm

Looks like a bit of heaven. Happy they are setting you free finally. I hope to knock off more cols next summer. I found this list of climbs: https://www.bikecation.co.uk/climbs/home.aspx?eucookie=true
Would you have a top ten favorites of French and Italian climbs somewhere?

Paul Colonna on May 11, 2020 6:20 pm

I’m looking forward to your posts Will.

Victoria on May 13, 2020 11:04 am

Looks like heaven on Earth! Looking forward to it!

thomas DOMERGUE on May 21, 2020 9:08 am

Magnifiques photos !
Merci Will

thomas

Peter on May 25, 2020 11:35 am

I thought it was 100 km beyond your home departement? But either way you have a lot to do!

Koen on June 4, 2020 11:27 am

Hi Will,
soon the borders will open again, and even though Belgium has great places to cycle, we have no mountains whatsoever… 🙂

What source do you use to see if a col is open? Switserland has an excellent site, didn’t find something similar for France though.

Thanks!!
And kindest regards,
Koen

- Will on June 4, 2020 12:58 pm
  
  Generally, it’s best to find the offical traffic site for each department as it provides LIVE info, and often info on road closures beyond just snow
  
  Use this official site for Haute Savoie: https://www.inforoute74.fr/#viabilitehivernale
  
  Use this site for Savoie (check the open/closed box at left): http://www.savoie-route.fr/
  
  This web site is “usually” reliable: https://www.cols-cyclisme.com/ouverture-cols.htm