Cycling in the snow is no fun at all. Turbo training indoors is not much better. So I’m inviting everyone today to take a flight of fancy and proposing a question about dream cycling tour destinations! If you could wave your magic want, right now. Where would you like to be bicycling and doing your cycling training…….?
I would like to be cycling in…….
My dream destination would be a warm summers day. Not too hot but beautifully sunny and I would be riding Mont Ventoux. Nicknamed the “Giant of Provence” it has been used repeatedly in the Tour de France. The best route is from Bedoin and rises 1617 m in just 21.8km with an average gradient of 7.4%.
Ever since i rode the route of the Tour de France in 2007 I have been fascinated by it’s mountain stages. Whilst riding the route I disliked the flat stages. I was riding on my own so long flat, windy stages in Northern France felt like death. I could see the road stretching ahead of me for miles with nothing and no one to break the wind. It was really tough.
Whereas the mountain stages were fantastic. I took a simple pleasure from them. There was no pressure on time. It was a simple equation. Get on the bike and keep pedaling until I reached the top. This was combined with beautiful scenery and thousands of people on the roadside. An experience I will never forget.
I would stop half way and pay my respects to the monument to British cyclist Tom Simpson who died from dehydration and drug induced heart failure in the 1967 Tour de France. He began to wildly weave across the road before he fell down. Delirious, he asked spectators to put him back on the bike, which he rode to within a half mile of the summit before collapsing dead, still clipped into his pedals.
Sitting in London looking out of the window to 6″ of snow I cannot help but dream of Mont Ventoux and wish that I could wave my magic wand and be transported there right now and for it to be a sunny afternoon.
Where would you like to be cycling right now?
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If I could wave my magic want right now, have the perfect bicycle anywhere in the world I wanted to be… oh, dear… the choices are limitless!
Not necessarily sunny, but temps in the high teens. Someplace beautiful. Do I go with somewhere I've already been, or somewhere new? Right now, today, I want to be somewhere remote… OK: On a (hard-tail) mountain bike somewhere in northern Mongolia.