A return to classic style after a few weeks of skating. Working on weight transfer for both kick double pole (pas d'un) and diagonal stride (alternatif) techniques. 4m49/km which is not too bad.

More for fun, we hired the Col de Porte rollerski track for a Saturday morning session of skating and exercises.

The climb was harder at the end than I remembered. In general it felt quite easy, not like I was really killing it. It took 32m44s for the complete climb with a VAM of over 900.

Why not ski from work along the large bike paths of the Innovalley. Well no good reason plus I commute on them and there is hardly anyone who uses the paths which are both wide and well maintained.

A little pre Sunday lunch ride with tot over the Bergers climb and down the steps. After my recent crash didn't clear 1 of the steps as I didn't want another bad knee.

I don't remember running the Orionde but as it is not far from home and I had other things to do I decided to give it a try. It is a bit steep in most places so it was largely a fast walk.

Due to the lockdown I think this is the first Murianette on road bike this year.

I'd not climbed this way at all last year due to lockdown and covid so I wanted to see if I'd improved a bit. Well yes.

North to South, or South to North? That is the question and it is not entirely simple to resolve.

The annual "leave your car at home" event. To amuse the crowds (which it did) I went by rollerski/skating to work.