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.

It had rained all day but the weather said sun from 4pm, it started drying out at 3pm so I gave it an hour or so for the roads to be good.

A little tour on classic rollerskis to move the legs a bit. Not too quick, balance a bit better after some recent practice but more work to do.

DescriptionIt is a fairly logical loop.

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.