With 2 off up the Glandon and 5 too knackered to ride it just left us with 2 to do the Traverse

Very short video climbing the Col d’Ornon from the other side of Bourg d’Oisans

Climbing the Col de Montgenevre as part of our extending Tour of the Oisans holiday

47th consecutive month in a fastest time for may of 58.30

More photos of the frame and Prompt shop can be found here

For the record I completed the event in just under 7 hours receiving a gold standard for my age group.

I headed out for a training ride to La Berarde today. There is still plenty of snow up there as this photo shows. It was my first ride up there since last October.

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Photos from Day 6 as we returned from Almunecar to Granada on our Tour of Andalucia week.

Photos of our ride from Granada to Almunecar on our Tour of Andalucia Week

Photos from Day 3 Tour of Andalucia Guejar Sierra. Crazy temperatures into the mid 20′s today.

Photos from our ride up the Pico de Veleta today. During the day we a so saw Team Greenedge training for the 2nd day

I love this road over Villard Reculas and Garde en Oisans

Recent upload of our photos from the
Col d’Agnel on the
French Italian border and part of our
Alpe d’Huez to Italy
Tour

Due to the number of photos that we take as part of our
More Than 21 Bends holidays we have
decided to store them in FlickR. First off is all the photos from the
Col du Galibier.
We will be adding more photos to each of the sections as we take them….

We set off from Monachil fairly early to tackle the rolling climb up over the Sierras de Tejeda. The first 15km or so are through the suburbs of Granada through what once must have been small villages – such as La Zubia. Once through the villages the 30 km to the sumit of the Sierras de Tejeda followed. The quiet road to the summit rolls though typical Spanish farmland and countryside before open up to the most fantastic view and the 36km descent down to the beach in Almunacar. The descent was fantastic, twisty and fast on a newly surfaced road and is equally as rewarding as the Col du Galibier or Alpe d’Huez.

We stayed overnight in Almunacar before retracing our steps back to Monachil. The climb back was rewarding in itself and took us just under 2 hours. Once over the top we stopped for some soup in a local cafe/ restaurant. We thought the descent back to Monachil would be easy but it proved to be both undulating and very windy.

These two days of great riding can be had as part of the Tour of Andalucia Cycling Holidays .

Big ride out on day 2 combing our day 2 ride up to the Pico de Veleta with our day 3 ride to Guejar Sierra.

The morning was fresh as we started off a little later than planned for the local bike shop Sierre Nevada Bikes  to get myself a new chain for my PROMPT D211 road bike. It had been jumping through out the first day restricting me to just a few gears.

Once the chain was sorted we headed out up the steady climb to Guejar Sierra and then the mighty steep unnamed  climb up to the Pico de Veleta road. After a fantactic lunch we headed up to the ski resort of the Sierre Nevada on the Pico de Veleta road. We managed to get to 2550 metres above sea level before the road closed. There was a hive of activity up there with tacky shops renting sledges.

After a refuel in the Ski resort itself we headed back down the 35km to our base in Monachil just as the sun was setting over the mountain.

The temperature hit an amazing 21 degrees centigrade on the steady climb up to just under 1300 metres above sea level and as it was a public holiday here in Spain there were a far few cyclists out and about. It was an excellent days riding despite the lack of training I have done over the last couple of months.