What is the Cent Cols Challenge?

What is the Cent Cols Challenge?

by | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog Post

Back in November last year, I pulled the trigger and committed to attempting a Cent Cols Challenge (CCC) – the Dolomites version, commencing on 31st August – and my entire year has been focused on preparing for this. I first heard about the Cent Cols a few years...
Ventoux

Ventoux

by | Mar 30, 2014 | Blog Post

SGL, October 2011 For the last five years or more, Ventoux had sat at the very top of my list of ‘must do’ climbs. I didn’t know anything about the climb until I read Armstrong’s autobiography in 2003, in which he described Ventoux as the hardest of the road climbs...
La Doyenne

La Doyenne

by | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog Post

Saturday 20th April, 2013 4.00 am.  My alarm goes off. It’s cold in my room and I feel terrible.  I’m tired.  Really, deeply tired and maybe a bit sick too. I flex my ankles and then my calves – everything feels tight and sore.  I haul myself into a sitting position...