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Etape 09 training blog: Etape 2009 disqualification times
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Sunday, 12 July 2009. Etape 2009 disqualification times. Just noticed the event timing on the French version of the Etape. Website. They're giving 10h 30m as a total disqualification. Time This is a whole hour more than last year. Over similar distance / ascent. See http:/ www.letapedutour.com/2009/ETDT/presentation/us/itineraire.htm. Noticed the temperature in Tarbes. Today at the finish, 35 degrees! End of the blog.
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Etape 09 training blog: The Wicklow200.ie
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Thursday, 11 June 2009. The weekend of 31st May 2009 we had a bunch of 5 out from the club, mostly in club kit, very fetching. We wanted a long medium paced ride so headed north to Garstang. And over the Trough of Bowland. Vicky / Dominic (first time out - but a top class fell runner) / Gaz. We clocked-up near 90 miles with 1,700m of ascent but must confess to a cafe stop in Whalley. 3 of us, Thomo. 05:00 up and eating...
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Etape 09 training blog: July 2009
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Sunday, 12 July 2009. Etape 2009 disqualification times. Just noticed the event timing on the French version of the Etape. Website. They're giving 10h 30m as a total disqualification. Time This is a whole hour more than last year. Over similar distance / ascent. See http:/ www.letapedutour.com/2009/ETDT/presentation/us/itineraire.htm. Noticed the temperature in Tarbes. Today at the finish, 35 degrees! My word it's hot.
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Etape 09 training blog: The Rivington 100 (115) and Singapore
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Saturday, 20 June 2009. The Rivington 100 (115) and Singapore. Again, my optimism of being able to drive to south wales do the Dragon and back in the same day was unfounded. I was hoping to be sharing this experience with one or two of the others but it wasn't to be. The decision. I decided to ride from home to the start at Horwich. And started the climb over the back of Waddington. Fell, then the trouble started.
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Etape 09 training blog: Sod the cycling... I'm off diving....
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Wednesday, 25 February 2009. Sod the cycling. I'm off diving. Don't know why but since the Cumbrian. Xmas Cracker I've been struggling for motivation on the bike. The weekend after the event did 38m on the Saturday then, and this is quite amazing, I got the MBX. Out on the S unday. And went up on Winter Hill to watch the Winter Hill Fell Race in the snow. We had about 10 from Chorley. Well to be precise, Marsa. Coffee ...
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Etape 09 training blog: Volcanoshire
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Sunday, 31 May 2009. Better late than never, my update on the 2 nd. Weekend in Oregon. I needed another 200 mile weekend to compensate for missing the Etape. Friday after work I got ready and set off to the Skyline again. This was a quickish. In 1980 causing widespread devastation, killing 57 people. All these volcano mountains sit in the Cascade Mountain range on the pacific rim 'ring of fire', the tectonic. At the en...
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Etape 09 training blog: Seasonal Affected Dissorder !
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Wednesday, 21 January 2009. I keep saying going out in these temperatures is character building. It certainly is, won't it be so good to lose all these layers and just go out in a pair of bib shorts and a short sleeved top. The sustained frozen roads over the Christmas. Break put paid to many miles between the 28 th. December and 1st Jan 09, but back out on the 2 nd. 3rd and 4 th. Jan 09 saw the entries for the Etape.
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Etape 09 training blog: Keyholes and crutches
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Saturday, 22 November 2008. Was interesting, Chorley. Harriers only had 5 out so no team entry (6 needed). Thomo. Ran steady, I heckled here and there, then he suffered a muscle tear literally 50m from the finish. This looked bleak but he struggled home then, much to my surprise, he came out on the bike next morning for the 40miles. Sunday AM we had a good turnout, 7 of us: Nikki, Vicky, Gaz. Pete Starkey (see pic RHS.
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Etape 09 training blog: Travels....
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Thursday, 23 April 2009. The training is going fine, 181, 193, 200 and 151 miles for the past 4 weeks, this last week punctuated by a necessary trip to Wembley. Dispose of Manchester United in a penalty shoot-out. (see below Phil Jagielka about to take the 5th penaly that put us through to the FA Cup final on 30th May 2009). The chart right shows the bike miles since December 08, this doesn't include. Injection and man...
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Etape 09 training blog: Rehab
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Etape 09 training blog. Training antics ahead of the Montelimar to Ventoux Etape 2009. Saturday, 6 December 2008. Published 15th December (started on the 6th. oops! It's been a difficult couple of weeks following the hip op. My wife's mother, Mary (80), passed away quite unexpectedly leaving a large void in my wife's day to day, we all expected her to be around for many years to come. She is missed by all of us, the long process of adjustment to life without someone now begins. Came through with their.