Friday 13 June 2014

Day Three - it's a Monster

There are a large number of climbs in the Alps, as you'd expect, and a few of them strike fear into the heart of many a cyclist. Three of those are Col De Madeleine, Col de Telegrah and Col de Galibiere.

We rode all three today. The stats were eye-watering - 140k with 3,880m of climbing.

The good news was that we got away with some great weather - even at the top of Galibiere it wasn't raining. Awesome descent from the top right into our hotel.

The map and profile look like this -  


It's hard to describe the pure pain I felt as I finished off the climb to Col de Galibiere -it gets much steeper for the last 2k and after about 6 hours in the saddle I was truly knackered.

There's a pic of me at the top and it's not pretty.

More to follow.

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