August 2, 2019 Day 61: Le Grand Finale to Geneva! Saint-Jean-de-Sixt – Geneva 50.04km 🚴🏼♀️ 2.26.07 ⏱20.5km/hr ⬆️ 245m (Suuz 360m) ⬇️ 810m 🌡26C Spoiler alert 🚨: we made it. We are in Geneva! We almost didn’t make it,…
August 1, 2019 Day 60: Enjoying our last day of climbing Les Saisies – Saint Jean de Sixt 40.12km 🚴♀️ 2.39.44 ⏱15.1km/hr ⬆️ 740m (Suuz: 824) ⬇️ 1380m 🌡12-25C We had a rough time falling asleep 💤 last night, we…
July 31, 2019 Day 59: Tearjerking Col des Saisies Pussy – Les Saisies 50.89km 🚴🏼♀️ 4.45.54 ⏱10.7km/hr ⬆️ 1510m (Suuz 1779m) ⬇️ 650m 🌡27C Oh my god! What a day. Normally we start with how we slept,…
July 29, 2019 Day 58: Conquering de la Madeleine to get to Pussy Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne – Pussy (not joking, we did pick it for a reason) 53.74km 🚴♀️ 4.33.34 ⏱11.8km/hr ⬆️ 1575m (Suuz 1709m) ⬇️ 1400m 🌡23C When the alarm 🚨went off this…
July 29, 2019 Day 57: A restless day sitting out the rain Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne restday We did not need a restday but given the weather forecast was really bad for Sunday we planned to have one anyway….
July 28, 2019 Day 56: Change of plan to Jean Luuk Marianne Lanslevillard – Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne 62.14km 🚴♀️ 3.15.43 ⏱19.1km/hr ⬆️ 630 (Suuz 820m) ⬇️ 1450m Yeah that’s no Bourg Saint Maurice! It’s Saint John Marc Marianne or whatever. So we woke…
July 27, 2019 Day 55: Hanging around for the Tour the France Lanslevillard, Tour de France day Since the Tour organization didn’t accept us as new riders we were stuck in Lanslevillard for the day. There…
July 26, 2019 Day 54: Our first baguette and Alpentoetje #1 Giaglione – Lanslevillard 37.27km 🚴♀️ 3.41.31 ⏱10.1km/hr ⬆️ 1330m (Suuz 1461m) ⬇️ 665m 🌡26C (felt like 35C) Well a sweaty night it was. It was so hot that…
July 25, 2019 Day 53: A lazy day at the foot of Mont Cenis We slept in for a bit and went down for breakfast around 8.30am. It was a lot better than yesterday, we even got a…
July 24, 2019 Day 52: Short and steep to Giaglione Avigliana – Giaglione 37.81km 🚴♀️ 2.36.10 ⏱14.5km/hr ⬆️ 425m (Suuz 563m) ⬇️ 95m 🌡33C Waking up after a very hot night wasn’t too hard in the sauna they…