Hill repeats largely at threshold, took in the climb to la Croix Rousse although need to find a better way down.

DescriptionA long loop with a lot of vertical covering 4 cols. Starting at Ugine take the cycle path toward Annecy. After about 9km of false flat you cross a bridge over "la Chaise".

Made it onto the strava leader boards thanks to skate skis. Can probably go a bit higher but there are some fast guys in Lyon. More fun this week as I took a more varied route around.

I thought it would be possible to cycle around the park, there is a cycle route marked (#5) but only for mountain bikes it would seem. I started out along the Canal de Jonage.

I decided to tackle the Tete d'Or  park on skate rollerskis. You feel the roughness of the surface a lot more on skate wheels. About a third of the circuit is a bit rough.

A real col du Verdun this weekend with a climb on the closed section. Absolutely no-one around and few cars. Climb is just steep enough on 42x24 but not too steep.

I decided to attack the Fourviere hill from a different angle. Ride down the Rhone to the Confluence and then climb via la Mulatiere (the mule?) along a balcony road called the Chemin de la Fontaines.

Rollerski with slow wheels, quite good for the arms and technique but managed to fall despite the wheels being safer, doh! Took over an hour to do the return trip - 5m/km.

Pushed out to Limonest today and the closed Mont Verdun climb which I descended. A lot of cyclists on it enjoying the Sunday afternoon sun.

Second trip to the Tete d'Or park. Not many people on a Thursday afternoon, just a few nasty dags who don't like rollerskiers but are ok with bikes and runners.