Things have been quiet on the building front with most of my guys away on holiday, but that’s given me time to catch up with other stuff and we’ve got some interesting project ideas that are cooking up nicely.
Recent outdoors activity has predictably involved a lot of cycling – on road bikes and mountain bikes. Maybe a bit too much cycling, if I’m honest. The legs don’t feel right and I think I need to reassess my training programme.
We had a great day out recently doing downhill mountain biking in Tignes. This has really taken off and Tignes is offering a free summer season pass for all the lifts. Can’t say fairer than that. It’s all single track and great fun, but it’s a serious sport now and some of them absolutely fly down the mountain – literally – so you have to keep checking back over your shoulder to make sure there isn’t some airborne nutter sailing over it.
I’m doing a 140km ride with the club on Sunday, almost to Grenoble and back, but it should be relatively relaxed. Coming up though is the Tour de Mont Blanc, which is a 320km ride over 2 days, taking in France, Italy and Switzerland with 9000m of vertical climbing. I’m doing it as a bit of a recce for next year’s cycle camp.
I finally managed the day out enduro biking which I’d wanted to do for ages with my friend who runs the Mountain Pro Shop near Albertville. He took me out around the back side of Beaufortin and we covered a huge area, most of which I’ve never seen and we didn’t see another soul all day. I’ve got a feeling that my friend may have been born on a bike as he took me over some really tough, technical stuff – I fell off within the first five minutes and then continued to do so regularly throughout the day. I was sore and bruised.
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