Wednesday, May 22, 2013

More about the bike and lifestyle rather than "working from anywhere"

Ok, so I have to admit that this blog has now become more about the cycling and the lifestyle here in the French Alps, all I can say in my defense of this is that you can only write so much on the working side of things, the bottom line is that the actual "Working from Anywhere" is working and working well.
Needless to say that today started off with some work, as I said what more can I say?
Then I'd picked out a 100km loop that was partly some of a route that I did the other day but in reverse and the middle part of the route a different direction. The route was named in the guide book as "Le tour du Plateau Matheysin par la Morte", this route started off going up Col d'Ornon the opposite side to my 93km loop that I did on Saturday, then moved back on the reverse direction as this ride until just after Valbonnes where it turned up towards La Morte and the ski resort of l'Alpe du Grand Serre.
the ski resort of l'Alpe du Grand Serre
The climb up to La Morte wasn't too bad or it could be a case that I'm just getting used to all the climbing, I stopped for some much needed lunch at  l'Alpe du Grand Serre, I would have stopped sooner but couldn't find anything open, a bit of a trap in these parts, you never know when they will be open.
Then it was a very exciting 12km descent into Sechilienne, as mentioned many times before the descents are an absolute thrill, roads are mostly smooth with lots of sweeping corners and the odd hairpin to keep you on your toes (or brakes). It was back to the highway home, a lengthy part of which is a gradual but consistent uphill so its a bit of a tough drag to finish, I was feeling pretty good by the time I got to my turnoff though so decided to keep going into Bour d Oisans to my favourite bakery to treat myself to coffee and cake before heading home, adding an extra 15kms to my trip, ended up 119kms for the day.
Certainly clicking up the km's, I've now covered close enough to 1000kms since I've been here and even more telling is I have now surpassed 20,000m of climbing, thats 20km's of vertical gain in 17 days!!!!!


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