By Start: Gap Finish: Grenoble Distance: 117km Elevation gain: 1,730m Climbs Col du Manse Rain. And Climbing. That’s how day 4, our final day on the bike started. From Gap the plan had been to go up the Col du Manse, and the Col du Noyer, but while the weather had
Alps 2019 Day 3 Briancon To Gap
Start: Briançon Finish: Gap Distance: 124km Elevation gain: 2,360m Climbs Col d’Izoard,Côte de Puy-Sanières, Côte de la Rochette 2 Days in the legs, and facing pretty much in a HC climb, there was another sense of trepidation on the morning of the 3rd day. The sun was shining, but it
Alps 2019 Day 2 Bourg D’Oisans to Briancon
Start: Bourg d’Oisans Finish: Briançon Distance: 94km Elevation gain: 2,4908m Climbs Alp d’Huez, Col de Sarenne, Col du Lautaret We woke to a beautiful, clear day, albeit on the cool side, and it seemed like a perfect day to tackle what we would consider the “Queen’s Stage” of the trip:
Alps 2019 Day 1 Grenoble to Bourg D’Oisans
Start: Grenoble Finish: Bourg d’Oisans Distance: 104km Elevation gain: 2,198m Climbs Col d’Ornan For nearly any cyclist cycling in the Alps would be the pinnacle of trips. So when some of our fellow cyclists from the Paris 2 Nice trip suggested a trip to tick off some bucket-list climbs, it
Mizen to Malin Day 7: Letterkenny to Malin Head
Now that there was a car available, we made a decision (without much hesitation in fairness), to ditch the bags for the last day. Given that we had about 400 miles in the legs and wanted to tackle the Gap of Mamore it was a fairly wise decision. Although the
Mizen to Malin Day 6: Ballyshannon to Letterkenny
Our original plan had been to cycle from Ballyshannon past Letterkenny, just to leave us with a short day at the end, (circa 45 miles or so). But since Martin O’C was driving back up from Limerick to cycle the last day with us, we decided to have an easy
Mizen to Malin Day 5: Claremorris to Ballyshannon
On paper a long day, and this was made a lot longer by a headwind that was present for about 60 miles. Understandably after the previous night, there was a slow start in the morning, but a very heavy shower (10 minutes of absolutely torrential rain), made this a struggle.
Mizen to Malin Day 4: Doolin to Claremorris
At 79 miles this was planned to be our longest day, and given that a few of us were struggling at the very start with stiff legs, the initial climb out of Doolin was a bit of a shock. But once the legs loosened out a bit it turned out
Mizen to Malin Day 3: Ballybunion to Doolin
Between the hangover and infection, I wasn’t feeling 100% when I got up. But once I saw the state of the 2 lads who stayed in my sister’s house morale quickly improved! Understandably it was a slow enough start, but the spin to Tarbert to get the ferry was lovely,
Mizen to Malin Day 2: Kenmare to Ballybunion
This was our first full day, and after a decent nice sleep and a cracking breakfast, we ended up rolling out of the B&B at 10:20A.M. (only 20 minutes behind target!). We had good eather, no wind or rain, and not too hot. We stocked up on bananas and jaffa