Some Things You Can’t Train For
Cycling
The only way to travel. (Not actually the 'only' way I mean the best way. But not on water).
No Surrender!
I Always Smell At My Best When Changing Inner Tubes
Liberally spreading donated unwanted talcum powder to reduce friction between rim, tube, and tyre.
Zoncolan
And It’s Steep As Well
Great comeback by Chris Froome at the Giro today beating both the man with the stuffed fox and the dinosaur to win Stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia.
The Zoncolan averages 11.9% over its 10.1km length, with a maximum gradient of 22%. The Tour de France’s better-known Alpe d’Huez averages 8%, with a maximum of 12%, while Mont Ventoux is far longer at 21.5km but averaging just over 7%.
Froome Zooms
On the 19th Stage of this year’s Giro Chris Froome attacked from eighty one kilometres to go to win by three minutes and turn a deficit of two minutes and fifty four seconds to Tom Dumoulin into a forty second lead.
This has led to a certain amount of speculation, egged on by the advertising click reliant cycling websites, about whether such a performance was possible drug free which will continue whether the drugs tests he will have been subject to during the race prove positive or not.
Though extraordinary the circumstances of the attack make the result credible.
Chute du Panda! Chute du Panda!
Both Sides Now
I Do Enjoy Sport’s Commentary
‘You have to be a little bit careful but throw caution to the wind’.
From coverage of the Volta a Catalunya.
Could Be A Day For The Sprinters
Giro d’ Italia Stage 10.
Could Be A Day For The Climbers
Giro d’ Italia Stage 14.