French Alps in Türkiye

Relaxing in Türkiye

Due to a lazy holiday in Türkiye, the Strava challenges for September and October did/will not bring new “records”.

Not that I care much – before going to the beach, I had a ball in the Eifel during, and the day after, the Eifel Cycling Classic and I really needed the time off “zee baik”…

(Garmin: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/378911239 and http://connect.garmin.com/activity/379499168)

For Paula, my faithful companion on most of my ridiculous cycling expeditions, it was a long overdue “holiday in the sun”.

Being Portuguese, the summer in the Netherlands was not that bad (July/August), but compared to the real stuff, to her it it was like it is for me to cycle in the south of my country…

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Tour of Sufferlandria 2013

Please note that the Sufferfest is now part of Wahoo SYSTM. 

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Tour of Sufferlandria Leader’s Jersey

With today’s double “The Wretched” and “The Long Scream”, the 6th stage in the “Tour of Sufferlandria” is done and dusted.

Just three more days of “IWBMATTKYT” and the whole tour is over…

I took the leader jersey, pictured here, right from stage 1 and it fits like a glove.

Anyone planning to take it from me, obviously doesn’t hold a Masters Degree in Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and Econometrics

To put it in simple terms you minions and peasants can understand: a snowball’s chance to survive an hour in hell, is infinitely greater…

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