Challenge Number Three: Time to Ride
A short week in Alto-Adige, Northern Italy. Time to ride the Mendel Pass. And taking a good look at what is around me. #cycling
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Traveling to Italy with bike and first ride - short but wonderful, preparing for bigger things! #cycling #Italy
Lucky
I tend to name my bike rides after songs. No real reason. Sometimes a song I had in my head that helped me keep rhythm peddling, other times a song that just put me in a good mood, more often…
Five Years
August seems to be a month of anniversaries. Twenty years in Holland, which is nice. And, a couple of days ago, five years since my initial diagnosis with MS. Which is not so nice? To ‘celebrate’, I went for a…
Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2018 – Closing the Book
Last week I wrote a fast, fairly emotional piece about Liege-Bastogne-Liege. A little more considered review is below. It’s time to close the book on this year’s challenge. Just the one this year. The hard kilometres of preparation were done in…
Falling Sideways
You effectively spend the last year, mentally, building up to a ride. And one particular part it. The Cote de la Redoute… Oh, the name! So mythical! The core of Liege-Bastogne-Liege! And you fall off. Or, more pathetically, you fall…
Liege-Bastogne-Liege – Something Special….
So it’s nearly time. All the training, all the preparation. It all comes to a head on Saturday 21st April in Belgium. A quiet week beforehand, no more big rides. Just a couple of low tempo, easy outings. Stretch the…
Back to Liege – The Challenge for 2018
Last year I rode Liege-Bastogne-Liege and, as I sat and ate a huge pizza the night after and drank too many Belgian beers I thought to myself… ‘Never Again’. Never again….. So, in a fit of absolute stupidity, I have…
Challenge Number Three – Rondje Markermeer
So, the year comes slowly to close and, with it, the triple challenges I set myself with the bike. Just one left now After Liege-Bastogne-Liege (agony in the rain!) and Mont Ventoux via Malaucene (agony in the Sun!) comes the…
Challenge Number One – La Doyenne
And then it’s done. All the preparation, training and mental preparation built toward yesterday, April 22nd 2017. The Liege-Bastogne-Liege challenge, or perhaps I should be honest and call it Liege-Stavelot-Lige because the 156km version does not go as far as…