My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue May 28, 2013 8:23 pm
Good news is my weight is finally coming down again ... found something that works for me, because diets never do!.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ft_critical » Tue May 28, 2013 9:02 pm
OMGosh, not riding more. You discovered riding more?toolonglegs wrote:Good news is my weight is finally coming down again ... found something that works for me, because diets never do!.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue May 28, 2013 9:41 pm
ha, I would ride more if I could!... gotta work and look after the family sometime!.ft_critical wrote:OMGosh, not riding more. You discovered riding more?toolonglegs wrote:Good news is my weight is finally coming down again ... found something that works for me, because diets never do!.
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:42 pm
Not much you can do sometimes with young kids in the house... I am hoping it will be OK, no fever which is the main thing... I was going to take it easy this week anyway .singlespeedscott wrote:So much for your fat stripping vegan diet
On the diet... feeling crap around the house yesterday I ate like a pig, but this morning on the scales there was no change in weight. I can control the cravings eating like this which is the most important thing... before I could demolish some serious amounts of food in weak moments, now if I have a weak moment ( usually around 4-6pm ) I can still demolish a fair amount of food but there isn't going to be much damage .
At the moment it is just to try something different... but while I am losing 1 to 1.5kgs a week while eating very well I am not complaining.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ZepinAtor » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:50 pm
Good on you TLL. Eating well & losing weight is a step in the right direction.toolonglegs wrote:......... while I am losing 1 to 1.5kgs a week while eating very well I am not complaining.singlespeedscott wrote:So much for your fat stripping vegan diet
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby singlespeedscott » Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:17 am
Ah, the joys of young school age children. Guaranteed to give you at least one lurgie a yeartoolonglegs wrote:Not much you can do sometimes with young kids in the house...singlespeedscott wrote:So much for your fat stripping vegan diet
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:28 pm
Corsica
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby dalai47 » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:01 am
Great shots toolonglegs. Bringing back wonderful memories!
Is the first photo from near the top? Didn't see the small chapel or the wonderful view when I rode it last year...
My view looking back nearing the top.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:43 pm
Yes I rode it...wasn't that hard, but i had a lot of trouble with my hammie on it for some reason... had plenty of gears left but couldn't spin them!...i found it similar in difficulty to the tourmalet. That and the fact that i spent 50k's on the front the day before.ft_critical wrote:TLL did you actually ride the Stelvio? I checked your strava but couldn't find it. From what I have read that is a really brutal climb.
Had a problem with splitting the ride up so had to leave two days together.
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Dalai, i had to drive the van for the Mortorolo... the only ride i missed out on...gave my sore hamstring a chance to recover from the day before. What a brutal climb though!. The chapel was on a beautiful loop from the top...we were advised this was a much safer and more pleasant way to come down.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby cyclotaur » Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:55 pm
My old blog - A bit of fun
"Riding, not racing...completing, not competing"
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:10 pm
Jasonc, i took this one handed as i rodepast him on alpe d'huez... it was about 10 feet high!... he was struggling.
Didn't really get hammer many climbs as i was working...alpe d'huez i left along time after my guests so i thought i could give that a go, but on the first ramp there was a guy being winched up from over the cliff so the road was blocked....then i caught up to my back markers and on of them preffered that i stayed with her.
Next day before the stage i whipped up Glandon / col de croix fer .... alone .
The most surpising climb for me turned out to be Seistrier ( Pinerolo side ) ...50km long with 1500 m climbing, i spent the first hour on the front pretty hard and then let them play games... i suffered a bit in the next hour!.
The descent on the other side is magic, have done it twice before but never that fast .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby dalai47 » Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:32 pm
I found the Stelvio quite challenging, especially after first climbing from Bormio which I feel was the easier side, dropped back down a few km to descend into Switzerland via the Umbrail pass and climbed then up the longer Prato dello Stelvio side before finally returning to Bormio.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:26 pm
That would have been a nice Stelvio ride you did on both sides... I probably could have got away with that if my leg wasn't playing up. One the days we just go up and down a climb we have a bit more freedom because the guests can't get lost ( usually ). One of the guys I was with was chasing kom's on a lot of the climbs, he got the Stelvio one pretty easily, but the next day there was the Mapei Day in Bormio with a race up the Stelvio... the top guy on strava did it in 1hr11m!
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby dalai47 » Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:30 pm
Nice. Maybe one year after I've won tatts and head back I'll turn right.toolonglegs wrote:For the chapel, when you went over the Mortirolo, you would have gone left at the intersection just after the col towards the Gavia, we went right... it ran along the ridge line for a few km's, the chapel was there looking down on Tirano ( where we finished up ).
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby mikesbytes » Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:16 pm
Is that the Devil? Not wearing red?
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:37 pm
Yes, it's him ... he has his own sponsors etc these days... hence you rarely see him on TV anymore, ASO don't like sharing the pie.mikesbytes wrote:Is that the Devil? Not wearing red?
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:40 pm
So anyway, I will call that my end of season break ... probably needed it!.
Here was my ride for the last 10 days... felt like Mr T, very cool set up, takes 8 bikes and has sliding luggage rack underneath the bikes.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:46 pm
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:50 pm
Yup, that's basically what I do for a job... although usually I get to ride .foo on patrol wrote:What, you carted other riders around and made them ride, while you got fat on cheese and plastered on plonk?
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