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August 2010 - Optician Triathlon Team

  • Animal rescue on a bike

    It was a busy weekend in the Optician Editor houshold. Sunday morning started with the Evans Liphook sportive which turned out to be a lot hillier than promised. Number two son certainly didn't like the first hill that seemed to go on for ever. It...
  • Hard to slow down

    All of those who read my race report or the race report in (Optician August 27)will assume that the whole of the Optician teriathlon Team will betalking a well earned rest. I had decided to have a break from exercise after developing a sore knee a month...
  • Hard to slow down

    All of those who read my race report or the race report in (Optician August 27)will assume that the whole of the Optician teriathlon Team will betalking a well earned rest. I had decided to have a break from exercise after developing a sore knee a month...
  • James' story

    This was a really great race in a fantastic setting and a lovely lake. In the swim the French seemed a little more intent on arm wrestling their way around rather than swimming but I came out of the water feeling remarkably fresh. The bike started well...
  • Nigel's Story

    My first impression of the ADH climb was on an early recce of the first few corners with James, where I was struck by the sheer scale and relentlessness of the road ahead of me. Driving up to the top the next day confirmed what I already knew: it was...
  • Lisa's story

    After driving through France for 10 hours and reaching the foot of the alps near Grenoble I saw my first glimpse of Alp D'Huez, the mountain was so high that the top was not visible through the clouds! On reaching the foot of the mountain I realised...
  • Lyndon's story

    The setting was amazing - arriving in Bourg d'Oisans a on the Saturday before the race was great an enabled me to soak up the atmosphere and make a few trips up to Alpe d'Huez. This included a ride up early on the monday morning with very light...
  • How was it for you?

    While I am waiting for the team to report back on their race I thought I would fill you in, as it were, on my experiences. We all knew this was going to be a special one and that really hit home when we saw the mountain and took a pedal up the first few...
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