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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! 19th - 25th August 2012. 21,000m of climbing. Click here for the Haute Route web site. This is the big one for the year . In fact . it is the big one for ANY year . Seven stages of the Haute Route 2012:. Sunday 19th August: Geneva - Megève (120km, 2700m ). Monday 20th August: Megève - Courchevel (105km, 2700 m ). Tuesday 21st August: Courchevel - Alpe d'Huez (136km, 4700 m ). Wednesday 22nd August: Alpe d'Huez Time Trial (14km, 1000 m ).
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Sportive Challenges - A Blog
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2011 Had Uppers . and a Big Downer . It was my first year of cycling . as usual didn't do things by halves! With second hand (but decent bikes) in London and France, then the season was about doing some stuff around the UK, loads of gym bike training in the Far East (about 8,000km) and big events in France. You can find alot more details by clicking on the events on the meno to the right -. Or by going to last year's blog ( www.2011etape.co.uk. I paid for alot more races than I was able to do!
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! Click here for the latest blog on the old man's stupidity. Last year was my first one on a bike. The lure of Mont Ventoux started it all and from there it was 8,000km of training, a few UK sportives, some iconic French cols, 2 Etapes and the Cingles du Ventoux (3 times in a day). (Click Here. Geneva to Nice - 7 stages, 800km, 21,000m of climbing! The training for 2011 was bike bike bike . and mostly on gym bikes in the Far East. Login stevemoranuk Password paul01).
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! 2012 and all that! I thought last year was focussed . well 2012 is probably going to be the dream year! Not only are we doing the Etapes (Act 1 and 2) again . and they are both so much harder than last year! There is also the Marmotte . on the same weekend as Etape Act 1. And climaxing with the Second Edition of the Haute Route . the toughest and highest sportive in the world. And in amongst all that there will be some more great stuff to look forward to:.
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! What is the pain to get the gain? Last year it was gym bike gym bike gym bike . 8,000 km on gym bikes around the world. However, Paul Bailey is putting on a more focussed, more quality, less quantity training program - initially based around weight training until Easter . Well that was until my back got in the way. First it was the weights . but that knackered my back . so Paul then went to muscle work through the gym bike. 1 1 Legged Squats. 2 Box Step Ups.
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! Les Cingl és. Les Trois du Tour. Les Trois du Tour. Red C Peddlers - Mont Ventoux Training Weekend. The boys arrive at Nimes in the morning . but I take the wrong turning and add half an hour to getting home. After tyhat everyone is trying their best to get their bikes ready . but Ali has forgotten his battery for his electronic gears (YES! Luckily the shop in Malaucene has one battery left . 90! Thank god for the shop in Malaucene! This is the day! I did this ro...
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I train people in project management and programme Management (that's big projects with a capital f). My company is P3 Professionals. Meaning Portfolios, Programmes and Projects or People, Performance and Potential (if you are dealing with Wendy). Wendy is my long suffering other half. Without her, then none of what I am going to attempt would be possible . she is letting me get away with murder. I have always been obsessively sporting and ultra competitive (though not often winning! And all the professi...
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Sportive Challenges - A Blog
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! Total height gained 6,052m. Three times up Mont Ventoux in a day. With the invaluable help of my beautiful soignierre, Wendy, I became a member of Le Club des Cingles du Mont-Ventoux. The mad men of Ventoux . up and down Ventoux the 3 routes in a day . It was fine except for the gales . the gods ov Ventoux finally got their revenge. I hd been so luck on the previous 9 times of the geant but the day of hitting him 3 times he bit back! Last year's adventure . Malau...
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! This month's latest events are below . previous month's and last year's can be accessed by the menu on the right . What a lazy old git I've been since the last blog from the Lebanon . by the way it is now June so this is. Here's a very quick whiz through May . Birthday . 54. On the way to France. Well that was May dealt with . apart from being asked also to go to Lebanon again (after it has kicked off again! These intervals are Tabata. An enormous insect in the g...
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Sportive Challenges - A Blog
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Pain is temporary . Memories are forever! This month's latest events are below . previous month's and last year's can be accessed by the menu on the right . I look into the window of my mind. Reflections of the fears I know I've left behind. I step out of the ordinary. I can feel my soul ascending. I'm on my way Can't stop me now. What have you done - these past seven days - to make you feel proud? And finally , , What this year has been about . The Olympics finished (see Olympics Special. I will get inv...
