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From Seneca Rocks
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From Washington DC
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From Isle of Man TT Cycling
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From Lakeland August Bank Holiday
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From German Visitors
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From l'Etape Course 2019
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From Steady Away
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From A Break in the Training
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From L'Etape du Tour 2019
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Our first venue was the spectacular Seneca Rocks. Only just over two hours drive from Washington, and what a place…
Laetitia had some work to do in Washington (work, huh, but the bills do need paying š ) which gave us an opportunity to tag an adventure on to the journey and explore a part of the US we might not have ever explored otherwise…
Laurence has embraced the cycling bug! So we joined him on the Isle of Man to enjoy a circuit of the famous TT circuit on our bikes…
It seems that global warming is real! Who knew? Anyway, that means that we had great weather for the August Bank Holiday in the Lakes, when really we all know it should have been raining… š A Longish Bike Ride A day on the Water Paddling from Grasmere, via the Rothay and Rydal Water, to …
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
Exactly one month to go and the official course for l’Etape du Tour 2019 has been published. We knew what the course was already of course, but having the official map is nice, and it also shows a bit more detail about the locations of feeding stations etc. What with first fracturing my ankle and …
Three weeks ago I managed to fall, not far and not fast, off a rock climb in Buttermere. I was unlucky to hit a small (10cm x 10cm) ledge with my left foot in that fall. If Iād fallen 10cm less far or to either side Iād have missed the ledge, been embarrassed but totally …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
Finally starting to get to grips with the training programme for this year’s l’Etape du Tour – from Albertville to Val Thorens (where we were skiing only a couple of months ago), 135km and over 4000m of climbing. This year Laetitia is doing it too, so that should be great fun – the atmosphere of …
