Trip out to the lake via the towpaths to swim. Not too cold and very pleasant in the lake. Getting dark early, around 21h ish and you are done.

A Murianette with a vam of 700 with the very steep climb of Rocharey added to the end.

Reverse of my previous trip. This time climbing by the easier route but with the poor road surface. It really is much easier this way with just a couple of short ramps to conquer.

A day of flatter riding with a classic tour of lake Orta from Pettenasco with a little detour to check out the fish ponds of Laghetti di Nonnio. The road up to the ponds has a few steep ramps.

I fancied covering 1000 vertical meters via Miasino this time as the initial climb to Armeno.

Finally made it to the village, it wasn't much beyond where I stopped last time but still a few very steep 20% ramps to conquer to get there. I didn't explore too far.

According to several sources, the Tougnète Pass via the D96 is the most difficult climb in France.

Lunch ride to cover a few kms before the vacation. It was actually a bit more climbing than I expected, around 700 meters.

I wanted to climb the Madeleine Pass after Pauline Ferrand Prevot's victory yesterday, but via a different route, as this one has a section of gravel.

A pleasant after-work outing to rack up a few more meters and a Strava KoM! Note: any good cyclist should be able to climb Mont Cindre in half the time it took me :-).

After three days of gardening work including a lot of hedge trimming - we were profiting from the rare cooler weather this summer - a trip to stretch the legs direction Col du Coq.