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1,330 kms | 36 K vertical meters Tomorrow, August 10, start my sport challenge of the year. You can read all the details about it here .  Fo...

WARM

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125 kms | 4 h 11 m | avg speed 29.8 km/h | avg hr 149 bpm | 2.391 kcal

Good ride today in the Lekdijk towards Wijk bij Duurstede, Amerongen and Rhenen. The weather was good, sunny and warm with almost no wind. I’ve done a good combination of ride with with cross wind and some climbs. Also very little riders in a area that usually is crowded.
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l’ETAPE DU TOUR PROFILE

PROFILE

The L’Etape du Tour is getting close and I’ve created my own profiles of the race. One is just to read it the day before of so. The other one below I glue it to my top tube to follow during the race for the feed zones and water places. Click on them to see in better resolution.

TOPTUBE

EIFEL

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105 kms | 4 h 15 m | avg speed 24.4 km/h | avg hr 141 bpm | 2.111 kcal

The training today was the team ride from Nike in the Eifel region of Germany with a total of 9 big climbs. The region is very picturesque and full of longish climbs. A great training for the L’Etape du Tour happening a month from now. The ride was good despite of the bad weather.
  O treino de hoje foi uma volta com o time da Nike na região de Eifel da Alemanha, com um total de 9 subidas fortes. A região é bem pituresca e cheia de subidas. Um bom treino para a L’Etape du Tour que vai acontecer em um mês. O treino foi bom apesar do clima chuvoso.

KINDERDIJK

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110 kms | 3 h 46 m | avg speed 29.1 km/h | avg hr 146 bpm | 2.197 kcal

Today as planned I went from my home to Kinderdijk, a Dutch touristic attraction close to Rotterdam, via the dike on the Lekdijk. It is a beautiful scenery route with open view to the fields, lots of charming little cities on both ways and perfect road surface. Did it by myself and it was a great ride, with fantastic weather.

Take a look after the link in a couple of photos from places I passed by and from the location.
  Hoje como eu já planejava já há algum tempo, fiz uma volta de casa até o Kinderdijk, uma atração turística holandesa perto de Rotterdam. Fiz o caminho através to dique Lekdijk e foi uma volta muito boa. Típico cenário holandês com campos abertos, várias cidades bem charmosas e estrada perfeita.

Dá uma olhada depois do link como foi e algumas fotos dos lugares que passei e do Kinderdijk.

MEMORY


Read today in the nice Deep Section blog:  "Farmers never remember the good seasons during bad ones and never remember the bad ones during good" and how this is just how I feel about Mont Ventoux. I'm 100 meters into the descending and already forgot how hard it was to get to the top...

Stolen from here :-)

PASSO GAVIA



And to top that, only the surely most beautiful climb ever! Passo Gavia. Hard, long and fantastic. I would go back there tomorrow if I could. Also, together with Stelvio, great descents!

STELVIO FROM BORMIO



I did this climb last September with a couple of Colleagues. To this day one of the most beautiful mountains climbs ever.