Annual Simplified Climbing Lunacy Challenge chatzone

[Dogtrousers]

Another one ticked off. Really nice ride, not hot, a bit cloudy, everything with a post-rain green glow.

Headed out to the Ashdown Forest for some lumps and then got a train home from Sevenoaks.

 

[FrothNinja]

Another one ticked off. Really nice ride, not hot, a bit cloudy, everything with a post-rain green glow.

Headed out to the Ashdown Forest for some lumps and then got a train home from Sevenoaks.
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Been vey blowy up here

 

[Dogtrousers]

Been vey blowy up here

Wasn't too bad yesterday. Apart from the usual perpetual headwind that accompanies me everywhere and makes me so slow

 

[Willd]

Cotswolds again

Including a couple of category 4 climbs Windmill Hill, Dovers Hill from Aston Subedge, Dovers Hill from Weston-sub-Edge and Ebrington Hill.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Just got back from a short hol in the Pyrenees. Once a year there is the "Montée du Géant" ride up the Tourmalet. There's a statue that is on display at the top of the Tourmalet during the summer months. In winter it lives at low altitude and each June it is driven up to the top, accompanied by lots of cyclists.

It was a grey day down in the valley, but up at the top, above the clouds it was stunning. It's a tough climb that saves all the steep bits up for the end when your legs are wrecked.