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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The West Drayton 100k Randonee

Ramon and Jane will be riding this on Sunday. Facer has to go to a wedding and cannot defend his title.(He posted the fastest time for this event last year.)

West Drayton Randonee

the Sunday riders will ride a steady tempo as a long training ride for the Poland race

The Rhayader Merida 100k

Raymond and Paul rode the 100k event yesterday. Although there was no rain on the day it had rained on most days of the previous week ,so it was a bit of a slog on the heavy ground.Getting a start in the first 100 competitors is the secret to a good placing in these races because,first there is no queueing in the singletrack and second the trails get muddier the more they are ridden.

Raymond 96k in around 6 hours, Paul in around 6.15.

They met weekend warrior Jon who has entered La Ruta:-o

Paul's la Ruta

Jane's La Ruta

Photos will be on sleepmonsters soon

This week's news

Marky completed the South Downs 100miles in a day yesterday.He took 14 hours in windy and wet conditions and managed to lose three chainring bolts.

Dom rode the national 10 time trial today and came in with a 23.23.

On a classic Sunday riders Sunday ride Paul's fork snapped and he dislocated his little finger. Raymond smoothly and confidently popped it back!

Last weekend Julie won her category in the Dyfi Enduro.

And Jim got married.