I'd cycled down from the col de Pré Long last weekend and the road surface looked ok so I decided to ski if it could be rollerskied. I parked at St Mury.

I got up reasonably early (for a Sunday) but it was already warm, fortunately the first section is in the trees. I skated at a reasonable pace, more focussed on technique hence 3m51 overall.

Took a while to get warmed up. The road is pretty rough, the spring gravel has achieved nothing and there were some big stones that have rolled off the verges near the start.

Return to Mont Verdun after Mont Thou just before. Ski is excellent, good road surface.

I wondered what the Route du Mont Thou would be like rollerskiing. It is possible to climb all the way to Mont Thou by turning right at the Hameau du Mont Thou but the road is very steep.

After a warm up managed to bring my time around the Parc de la Tete d'Or down to 12m47 (under 4m/km) and climb up to 6th place on Strava.

I finally made it over to Limonest to check out the Mont Verdun climb on rollerskis. This road is closed at the weekends and is not too steep, around 6% max I think.

A couple of tours around Lyon's Parc de la Tête d'Or but then it was getting busy so decided to test the new cycle path which has been redeveloped along the Rhone before crossing the Pont de Lattre de

Back to rollerskiing. Skating for a change after a lot of classic before the non-season.

As it is dark at 5pm now I thought I'd try a bit of night skiing around the park as I saw there was street lighting.