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Month: July 2018
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My training plan for the Marmotte had gone badly! The plan to start getting fit for a serious attempt at going around the 174km course as fast as I was able was stopped dead in its tracks just when it was supposed to really get going after Xmas 2017. A couple of months later (after …
We arrived in Bourg d’Oisans literally just as Rachel had been involved in a crash with a car! I was driving down the main street in to town and there, sprawled on the road, was a bloodied Rachel looking totally dazed and surrounded by people…
On our trip south for the Marmotte we decided to break up the journey… This had several benefits – We visited Belgium and saw the Atomium in Brussels, We visited Luxembourg City, We saved a massive amount of money on tolls by not using French motorways, and We happened across the Vosges Mountains…
I’ve never written anything quite like this before so bear with me for the ride… June 2018 was a tough AGM for the BMC The BMC has been going through a tough time for the past 24 or so months and because of that the 2018 AGM, held in Kendal on 16th June, was perhaps …