France

Today was Algernond’s and my last day to act like irresponsible juveniles - both our Daughters had extended skiing lessons, and were going to be busy until around 2pm, and then too tired to do anything at all. So we set ourselves a challenge - to ski the entire perimeter of Courchevel, taking in every...
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On Thursday, there was no ski school, so Daughter and I got to do some distance together on our skis. Like Algernond with his Petite, I found this exhausting, so I can only imagine how tiring it was for Daughter. She can ski - turns starting to parallel-up, and the ability to snow-plough to a...
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I still had to do my daily run on Wednesday, even though Algernond and I had just been skiing across the whole of the Three Valleys. Somewhere around 30 miles or so on our skis, and somewhat less in various lifts along the way. So I did an ‘easy’ road run - up towards Méribel...
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I was going to multi-task a family picnic at the reservoir with a swim-bike session. But then the huge ride up from Gabian through Fos and to Montesquieu had been all up-hill and into the wind (OK, it wasn’t really so huge, but it felt like it!), and I saw snakes swimming in the...
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Just the facts: 10k in the late afternoon of another showery, but warm day. My usual route from Gabian to Fouzillhon and Pouzolles Took just one x 500ml bottle of diluted fruit juice in the back pocket of my waist belt thingie Bottle wasn’t upright and leaked, leaving me in a sticky mess from the hips down Quite...
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Despite my training plan having Sunday 1st June down for being hungover, I felt fit as a fiddle. It was just that the weather was awful. I held off for as long as possible, hoping for the rain to stop, but it just went on and on, so in the end, I headed out...
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So I was so impressed with the pool in Montpellier that I persuaded my 15 year-old nephew to come for a swim . . . a thousand metres. For him, this was a BIG deal. So we broke the task down into manageable chunks: 1000m = only 10 laps of a 50m pool 1000m = only...
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We hired a canal boat for the day, and went for a family picnic. I wasn’t expecting this to be much fun (or indeed for the boat to be so big), but as it turns out, it was a great day out. I had a beer at lunchtime, and was just about to have...
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Workout: Type: Cycle Date: 05/28/2008 Total Time: 1:30:00.00 Distance: 25 miles Average Speed: 16.67 mph This is getting silly - I’m just SO behind with my posts!
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On the second day of our holiday, I did some more multi-tasking. The whole family was going into Montpellier to visit the aquarium. That’s at the end of one of the city’s tram lines . . . and only a few stops up the line is the swimming pool. So while the family were...
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