Posts Tagged ‘ Nice ’

Race Day. Breakfast was at 02:30 - four hours before the off to allow time for my guts to settle. Then after reading the good-luck cards left out for me, it was back to bed for an hour or so’s kip before getting up at 05:20 to shave, put to coffee on and be monosyllabic...
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I’m not entirely sure that I got my bike racked in the right slot for the Ironman . . . OK - joking aside, this is one of the pickup points for Nice’s Velobleu cycle hire scheme . It’s been a good few years since I was in Nice - certainly my last visit...
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Gulp! The day before the Ironman, and I woke up early. An ideal opportunity to cycle into Nice and have a look at the start of the swim course at its start time. The sea looked flat (which was good) and very, very big (which was less good). No marker buoys yet in position, so...
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Arrived in Nice on Tuesday . . . couldn’t sleep on Wednesday morning, so I went for a run along the prom, before getting home (back to the fab apartment Wife had sorted) to unpack the bike. Later in the day, I felt really, really tired, and was initially worried that I was...
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The organisers of Ironman France have been sending me sporadic emails over the last six months. In the last couple of weeks the volume’s picked up - daily messages about all sorts of things: how the starting positions are allocated for the swim; the locations of the feed stations; another reminder about the 1800m...
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