DAY 6 – THURSDAY – PO VALLEY – ITALY

Start 07:30am End 1:00am – 15.5hrs ride time including breaks
316k ridden
1700m climbing – Boring Po valley

DAY 5 – WEDNESDAY – STRADA D’ASSIETA, ON INTO ITALY

Sestriere – Asti

Start 08:00am End 8:00pm – 12hrs ride time including breaks
183k ridden
1700m climbing

Day 4 – Tuesday – Nice easy transition stage through the alps

actually it was **** hard

Start 07:00am End 8:00pm – 13hrs ride time including breaks
286k ridden
4100m climbing

Day 3 – Monday – More France then up Ventoux

Lyon to Ventoux

Start 10:00am End 2:00am – 16hrs ride time including breaks
286k ridden
3299m climbing – generally flat but a little jaunt up mount ventoux at the end

Day 2 – Sunday – More France

Wassy to Lyon

Start 8:20am,  End 2:00am – 18.5 hrs ride time including breaks
383k ridden
2480m climbing – just French rolling countryside

Day 1 – Saturday – Belgium and France

Lesinnes to Wassy

Start 7:28am,  End 21:50pm – 14.5 hrs ride time including breaks
318k ridden
2380m climbing – just French rolling countryside

Friday – Day 0 To the Start!

Dover to Geraardsbergen, Geraardsbergen to Lessines

Day 0.
35k ridden to get to the start
25km ridden 

All ready to go

Thursday – Day minus 1 – London -> Dover

20km ridden

  

Day minus 2 – Pre Registration

0 km ridden

Left work a bit early and got the train / tube / train to London Fields to go to the race pre registration.  After a couple of beers, I finally registered, picked up my hat, t-shirt, and musette feed bag.  I also watched ‘Inspired to Ride’ – a film about the Trans Am bike race which the TCR’s organiser, Mike Hall won.
Did the film help me…. Not really, but I found the story they told was amusing, inspiring and sad at the same time.  Well worth a watch

I don’t think the casquette suits me!

Ironman Austria – race report

Overlong and unnecessarily detailed Race report