The Life of Jack and Sarah (and the parents)

Monday, August 26, 2013

Horse Ride

First horse ride outside the stables for Jack and the first one for a few years for Sylvie.....

Monday, August 19, 2013

Summer Holiday in La Foux

Some Candy Floss - thats the kids hidden behind.

Building a tower to the ceiling - with a bit of help

Lac d'Allos

Horse Show

Sylvie needing some help to wade across the stream

Jack playing in the stream

The girls playing

Sarah, Jack and Theo

Panoramic view from the apartment

Sarah and Polly

Hiking

Food break at 2400m

Jacks archery competition

Panorama

Jack

Hiking

Col des Champs

Monday, July 29, 2013

Col de la Bonette

Looking back down into the valley. About 8km from the cimes.

Out of the saddle.

And on the way down.

Photos from declicphoto.net

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Mont Ventoux - July 2013

The 'Giant of Provence' as it is called. This is taken from where I started from, Bedoin.

This is the view after coming out of the forest, the first view of the end since the start, already done about 10-12km at 10% gradient. It is as tough as they say. Interestingly, there is a constant Stream of people cycling and running up, it does not seem to stop.

The final 4-6km.

One photo taken on the way up by griffephotos.com

The final 1-2km. Note, I took all these photos on the way down, no stopping on the way up. It was about here that I started to cramp in my right hamstring.

The monument to Tom simpson, the English cyclist who died here during a Tour de France stage.

The top was full of people (mostly Italians) on mobylettes and Fiat 500s, go figure.....

Well I made it to the top, approx 21km, approx 1,500m of climbing, average gradient of 7,4% (it felt like more!) in 1h50 minutes, average speed of 11.7kph, the TdF guys do it in approx 21kph! It was tough but ready to try again, really need to improve my cadence, most of the time sub 70 and even dropping to sub 60 when I should be closer to 80. Thats my homework.....

On Strava, have the 1,268th time out of 3,579 people.