On Sunday, July 18, Between Homes’ officer and dear friend of mine, Arcabulle Odriscoll, finished L’Etape du Tour – 2010. As I previously wrote, L’Etape du Tour is an event held every year during the running of the Tour de France. For more details, please click here:
L'Etape du Tour 2010 - Tourmalet
Riders participating in this year’s L’Etape had to battle Tour de France legendary mountains such as Col du Soulor, Col de Marie-Blanque and the famous (and much feared) Col du Tourmalet, the highest road in the central Pyrenees.
I have just received word from Monsieur Odriscoll about his epic bike ride. Here then, in his own words (with a little bit of editing on my part) is M. Odriscoll’s account of his climb to the top of Col du Tourmalet:
Hey hey i am back home! i am back and happy because everyone finished ! we were five to ride and we all finished ! oh my god it was so hard ! the stage of (the) tour de france is very hard like always but this year it was particularly hard ! it was hot very hot and i drank a lot and people along the road proposed to put some water on the body in the neck so i accepted ! i was very wet but it was ok
I put (finished) 10H27 (10 hours and 27 minutes) and finished 5475
The ride was 184 kms (114.33 miles) so very long with three climbs ! in fact it was hard for me in the first climbing and the second one, so Col de Marie-Blanque (the first climb, 1035 meters/3396 feet high) second climb first we walked during about two kilometers because there were so many boys and girls ! 10000 were engaged (riding) ! that is very crazy and more than 3000 foreigners so (from) 49 countries ! Very nice
So in the second climbing (Col du Soulor is 174 meters/4,836 feet high) it was hard too, very hard 13 kilometers and an average (grade) of 7.9%
And in the last climbing, i was better in Tourmalet (Col du Tourmalet 2115 meters/6939 feet high) and i climbed it in 2H32 (2 hours and 32 minutes)! that was the best time compared to my friends ! i was happy
It was hard but thee Pyrenees are so beautiful!
So I am very happy and above all happy that we all finished ! so happy
I am back now home and am watching the tour de france.
Arc, congratulations to you and your teammates on finishing L'Etape - 2010.
Job well done!
1 comment:
well now that was a great post sorry it's been so long to get back by here but I did want to state you have a great friend in that girl and man to be able to go and do something like that is something way to go and I'm very proud of you..for finishing great story like always..moeshere Foxdale hehe...
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