Skied with Stein from Norway who really knows what he is doing and can easily maintain 3min/km on classic, a lot faster than me.

I'd not ridden on the road much of late, bad back in July and lack of time in August.

Finally broke my PR on the Berger climb: 9m45, 20 seconds quicker than 2013 and I was an a lighter hardtail back then.

We climbed (raced really) with a running group on the climb.

A PR on the N -> S leg of 10m15, now to see if I can improve on that on rollerskis.Some nice sensations on inline skates in terms of balance and breaking.

We took the bus from Crolles to les 7 Laux for 1 euro, bike included. Not bad value.

Back to largely double poling in an anticlockwise loop. Having recently done quite a bit of skating with no poles balance is definitely better. Not too many people as it is August.

We'd not been up on the coteaux for a while, since the start of June probably. So a return to our favourite singles. It felt tiring but we climb the Manival trail in record time, Tot 1 minute ahead.

Official RouteFrom Bourg d'Oisans to l'Alpe d'Huez. 21 hair pins. 13.2km. Start at 744m, Summit 1815m. Average gradient 8.1%, sections of 12% over 100 meters.

Loop but in the reverse direction. Average of 4.01/km but skates felt very slow in the muggy air. I was taking it easy as I had a bad back for a month and wanted to test things out. All okay now.