Trans Portugal stage 6

The flat day: Once again the easy day bites,with thunder storms and mud, the Mighty Dinsdale pushes on.

Even the scary giant sunflowers are no match for the Mighty Dinsdale


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Trans Portugal stage 5

The long day:

KB crashes out of the stage! Apparently he forgot to open a gate and went through it closed! There is no mention of injury.

Way to go dude...esta el hombre muy duro.(y posible poco miope tambien,no? ;-))

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Trans Portugal stage 4

The 'easy' day before the big day. As so often happens, the easy on paper day becomes the hard day before the very hard day. It rained.....hard.

Julie takes this in her stride:-)


When we last spoke, Julie was very motivated for this race,today SM/SR managed a quick interview with the Mighty Dinsdale live via a satellite hook-up.

SM - Hi Julie,how's it going.

JD - Good, I am crushing the opposition.

SM - er..right, good. How is the course?

JD - I am smashing the mountains to dust beneath my mighty northern thighs.

SM - mm...ok. So, how are you feeling?

JD - My northern blood boils with the desire to win!

SM - very well..What will you do after the race?

JD - Make chocolate cake for everyone!!!

:-)

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meanwhile......

meanwhile in France at the foot of 'Le Geant de Provence' Marky is celebrating his assualt on the said Maiden. All three ascents of Mont Ventoux in four days!! He wears the pois rouge.

Trans Portugal stage 3

Julie is storming!!!

'.....For a large part of the race Julie was in the lead. She really liked the stage and said it was “her type of riding”, but by the end she was tired, especially as she had mis-memorised the stage distance, and thought it ended at 97 km........'.

apart from the last bit....doh!

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KB and Cal had to pull out with illness, hopefully they will still continue the race. Get well soon!

Trans Portugal stage 2

Julie moves up to 4th overall!!

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A close look at the picture shows some road rash, has she stacked it somewhere??

Trans Portugal stage 1

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Julie 6th.

KB 8th.

Cal had some problems with a puncture.

Julie apparently dropped the other female competitor towards the end of the first stage.

Go Dinsdale go!!! Venga, venga.

Trans Portugal

Sunday riders Julie and KB set out to tackle the Trans Portugal this Saturday.

Supertravessia

The race runs from the 11-18th June and is a 1000km! All done by following a virtual map on a gps.

Julie will have no problem with the distance, but I can see her stamping the gps into the ground at some point:-)

Julie is going to try to text details about the stages as she finishes, which I'll post here whenever I get them.

I've just spotted that Cal is also signed up.

West Drayton 100k Randonee.

A fabulous 100k's riding around the Chiltern's gently rolling hills in the sunshine. No fire road climbs!! ..........recommended!!

West Drayton

Ramon, Juanita and Roger rode a steady, semi-fast, training tempo, coming in at 6.16 for the 104km.

Kay hurt her back at around 4km and had to retire.

update - Merida 100 Rhayader

Ramon took 7th in the vets category

Paul took 44th in his.

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