View from the side of Alp D'Huez
Tour de France Spectators set up 2 days early on Alp D'Huez
Alp D'Huez is 13.8km, average 7.5% gradient with 21 switchback (corners)You see one of these signs on every corner, counting down from 21 to 0!
I climbed Alp D'Huez on my bike in 1 hour and 45 mins.That's a piece of French history...
or at least it's a first for the Paris in July event!!!!
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Good on ya! What an achievement - I thought you were goig to say you watching le tour fly past - but you actually climbed it!
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Lucky you to have been in Alp d’Huez during the Tour and then to have climbed it too! Since I was a child in France I have heard the Tour in July, first on the radio, then on TV when I was a teenager when we had our first TV. Now, an expat in the US, I watch it live on TV – have to get up early in Atlanta to watch it. Well bravo to your lad – Cadel did a great job! He is a wonderful athlete. I have been watching him for several years and was hoping he would be the one today at the time trial instead of Andy Schleck – Andy is nice too but he’ll get it right sometime in the future. And wasn’t Thomas Voeckler amazing? I never thought he could last that long. It will be something for you to hear the Australian anthem on the Champs Elysées tomorrow – I would love to be there (we were there in May.) I’ll be there too – looking on TV from the Atlanta area. I’ll come back to read more of your blog.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed--you not only witnessed the momentous events of that day; you then climbed Alp d'Huez! That's traveler's stamina, for sure.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! That's one big mountain to climb so quickly (though it probably didn't seem quickly after an hour and a half!)
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