You should all have received an email with the route and accommodation. Check out each ride profile.... bearing in mind the scale in height changes drastically after the first three days! All very exciting! Makes me smile...
Also we are going to meet with Martyn from ACT. Please check your email for choice of dates - deadline on Monday.
Our route takes us through 2 of the towns I stayed in with mates when watching the TdF in 2013 - Vaison-la-Romaine (just before Ventoux on day 5) and Greoux-les-Bains (near the start of day 6).
Below are a few of the rides we did in the area. Personally, I found it hard cycling that week and we rode nowhere near as long as this year's daily distances will be. Part of that was due to the heat of mid July and the temperature almost reached 100F some days, so hopefully it won't be that hot in September! Also, don't think my 'isotonic hydration therapy' in the evenings was conducive to recovery! There are some great vineyards just south of Vaison-la-Romaine e.g Vacqueyras and Gigondas!
Beautiful day today if a bit windy. Went out on a recce for Paris Nice and logged this ride. First longish ride in 3 months due to weather. Starting serious training in April. ref. here for my routes on map my ride http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/443165932 Some rides we will be doing have P/N prefix to route so check them out. See some of you this weekend Sat. 8.00am ride
Chaps. Hope the training is going well. We have 17wks training left. Suggest during May we ride together maybe on the GD100... And again in the following months. Also...Check out the training dates up at Geoff's. You'll thank yourself for putting in the effort when you're climbing Ventoux on day five! : ))
Well, I am sitting in Leeds contemplating what to wear for the tour de Yorkshire tomorrow wet and windy feeling like 3 degrees. Roll on the 30 degrees and the slope of Ventoux.
Paris Nice 2015 tour cycle shirts are ready to order. We are going with TMG pro tops as Will suggests. They are roughly the same size as the Endura Pro. So if you're medium in that like me then you're a medium in the TMG. Club night tmw.... suggest you pop down to the Three Tons to size yourself up if you're unsure.
They will cost just over £50 with minimum order of ten. We will need orders by end of this coming week. If we don't get ten then we won't order but hopefully we'll all want a shirt to remember the unique experience and be a team.
One medium top for me please Robbie. I am now planning the routes for May weekend. I'll put them up here soon. Just completed my 200 mile round trip to North Yorks to Castleton ..saw the ride through there Friday, rode down to Rillington and watched the tour Saturday nr. Malton. Just got back from there and reet knackered.
Hello, Can't make tonight I'm afraid, but can you put me down for a medium for me please - I'm pretty average sized, but I find smaller tops are often a bit short in the body... thanks! Dave.
Sorry but I shan't be at the club night tonight, last minute work has come in. I'd say the fit is similar to the pro/premium endura stuff so if you're a medium in a standard club jersey you'll possibly be a large in the tmgpro stuff. I wear a small endura pro fit, XS endura standard fit and small tmgpro... Hope that helps!
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Check out each ride profile.... bearing in mind the scale in height changes drastically after the first three days!
All very exciting! Makes me smile...
Also we are going to meet with Martyn from ACT.
Please check your email for choice of dates - deadline on Monday.
Looks like some great cycling ahead of us!
Our route takes us through 2 of the towns I stayed in with mates when watching the TdF in 2013 - Vaison-la-Romaine (just before Ventoux on day 5) and Greoux-les-Bains (near the start of day 6).
Below are a few of the rides we did in the area. Personally, I found it hard cycling that week and we rode nowhere near as long as this year's daily distances will be. Part of that was due to the heat of mid July and the temperature almost reached 100F some days, so hopefully it won't be that hot in September! Also, don't think my 'isotonic hydration therapy' in the evenings was conducive to recovery! There are some great vineyards just south of Vaison-la-Romaine e.g Vacqueyras and Gigondas!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345531291
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345531253
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345531105
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345531140
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345531164
So, time to step up the training and weight loss. Haven't had a drink so far in 2015 and lost 9llbs...Every pound crucial on those hills!
See you all soon
John
The catch up meeting with Martyn from ACT will be 8pm Thursday 12th Feb in The Tons.
We will relay info to riders who cannot make that date.
Cheers for organizing. routes look exciting.
8pm in the Three Tons for the briefing session
This Thursday 12 Feb
Thanks for getting us together Robbie
This is going to be immense!
John
Hope everyone is starting to get the miles in.
Apologies for missing the gathering the other week.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/provisional-riders-announced-for-paris-nice
Some rides we will be doing have P/N prefix to route so check them out.
See some of you this weekend Sat. 8.00am ride
How's everyone doing?
They will cost just over £50 with minimum order of ten.
We will need orders by end of this coming week. If we don't get ten then we won't order but hopefully we'll all want a shirt to remember the unique experience and be a team.
I am now planning the routes for May weekend. I'll put them up here soon.
Just completed my 200 mile round trip to North Yorks to Castleton ..saw the ride through there Friday, rode down to Rillington and watched the tour Saturday nr. Malton. Just got back from there and reet knackered.
Will definitely be up for a jersey Robbie.
never saw this till just now i will deffo have a shirt endura size large couldnt make club night, do we have shirts
i could try on ?
thanks
strappy
Can you put me down for an XL please
Dom
Can't make tonight to try sizing....working late :-(
John
Can't make tonight I'm afraid, but can you put me down for a medium for me please - I'm pretty average sized, but I find smaller tops are often a bit short in the body...
thanks!
Dave.
Sorry but I shan't be at the club night tonight, last minute work has come in. I'd say the fit is similar to the pro/premium endura stuff so if you're a medium in a standard club jersey you'll possibly be a large in the tmgpro stuff. I wear a small endura pro fit, XS endura standard fit and small tmgpro... Hope that helps!
Will
please amend or add your name to the list for this one off unique shirt!
Robbie : M
Shaun : L (?)
Geoff : M
MC : L
Jeremy : S
Strappy : L
Dom : XL
John : XXL
Dave : M
please amend or add your name to the list for this one off unique shirt!
Robbie : M
Shaun : L (?)
Geoff : M
MC : L
Jeremy : S
Strappy : L
Dom : XL
John : XXL
Dave : M
Martin: S
Saturday 5 Sept
Cheap tickets are now on sale. Booking tonight.
St Pancras 13:31
arrives Paris 16:47
Would still like to try on a Medium, though...
Will, can you whisper me your number, Ta
Here's TMG Pro's sizing chart:
http://tmghorizon.com/tmgpro/customcycleclothing/sizing/
....er, that will be a skin suit on me then...
...nearly burst my sides laughing....and certainly will do once the shirt is on....
Fitting into that provides me with another objective in addition to the ride itself!!