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Raid Complete

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 9:34 pm Written by:


I’m back from the French Pyrenees with far too much gratuitous cycling. Still a week on, I can’t stretch my legs comfortably. Here is a picture taken on the interminable climb up to the Col du Tourmalet (the bad turning). It took some hours of nothing but up-hill peddling.

I brought a round of cheeze back from France for Martin. His collarbone which he broke before he could come on this holiday is almost healed.

I’m not settling back into work so well. Just reading lots of internet and getting not a lot done. I’ve fixed a couple of bugs, played around with some of the machining parameter names, and seemed to have lost my list of things to do. Never mind.

2 Comments

  • 1. Freesteel&hellip replies at 23rd July 2009, 6:43 am :

    […] was more or less the same crew as went on the 2006 (slow) raid Pyrenees, but with Martin who — this time — had not broken his collar bone while doing some […]

  • 2. Freesteel&hellip replies at 21st July 2011, 6:45 am :

    […] When we first moved into this apartment 10 days ago (we have one day left *sob*), the landlord saw our bikes on the back of the car and invited us for a quick tour round the Col de Marie-Blanc, which was the first significant col to happen on our Raid Pyrenees in 2006. […]

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