3 Grand Tours For Teenage Cancer Trust
3 Grand Tours For Teenage Cancer Trust
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3 Grand Tours For Teenage Cancer Trust
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- 2013 Giro d’Italia
- Stage 1 San Felice Circeo / Napoli
- Stage 2 Ischia / Forio
- Stage 3 Sorrento / Marina di Ascea
- Stage 4 Policastro Bussentino / Serra San Bruno
- Stage 5 Cosenza / Matera
- Stage 6 Mola di Bari / Margherita di Savoia
- Stage 7 San Salvo / Pescara
- Stage 8 Gabicce Mare / Saltara
- Stage 9 Sansepolcro / Firenze
- Stage 10 Cordenons / Altopiano del Montasio
- Stage 11 Tarvisio (C. del Predil) / Vajont (Erto e Casso)
- Stage 12 Longarone / Treviso
- Stage 13 Busseto / Cherasco
- Stage 14 Cervere / Bardonecchia
- Stage 15 Cesana Torinese / Col du Galibier (Valloire)
- Stage 16 Valloire / Ivrea
- Stage 17 Caravaggio / Vicenza
- Stage 18 Mori / Polsa
- Stage 19 Ponte di Legno / Val Martello/Martelltal
- Stage 20 Silandro/Schlanders / Tre Cime di Lavaredo
- Stage 21 Riese Pio X / Brescia
- 2013 Tour de France
- Stage 1 Porto-Vecchio / Bastia
- Stage 2 Bastia / Ajaccio
- Stage 3 Ajaccio / Calvi
- Stage 4 Nice / Nice
- Stage 5 Cagnes-sur-Mer / Marseille
- Stage 6 Aix-en-Provence / Montpellier
- Stage 7 Montpellier / Albi
- Stage 8 Castres / Ax 3 Domaines
- Stage 9 Saint-Girons / Bagnères-de-Bigorre
- Stage 10 Saint-Gildas-des-Bois / Saint-Malo
- Stage 11 Avranches / Mont-Saint-Michel
- Stage 12 Fougères / Tours
- Stage 13 Tours / Saint-Amand-Montrond
- Stage 14 Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule / Lyon
- Stage 15 Givors / Mont Ventoux
- Stage 16 Vaison-la-Romaine / Gap
- Stage 17 Embrun / Chorges
- Stage 18 Gap / Alpe-d’Huez
- Stage 19 Bourg-d’Oisans / Le Grand-Bornand
- Stage 20 Annecy / Annecy – Semnoz
- Stage 21 Versailles / Paris Champs-Élysées
- 2013 Vuelta a España
- Stage 1 Vilanova de Arousa / Sanxenxo
- Stage 2 Pontevedra / Baiona. Alto do Monte da Groba
- Stage 3 Vigo / Mirador de Lobeira/Vilagarcía de Arousa
- Stage 4 Lalín/A Estrada / Fisterra. La Etapa del Fin del Mundo
- Stage 5 Sober / Lago de Sanabria
- Stage 6 Guijuelo / Cáceres
- Stage 7 Almendralejo / Mairena del Aljarafe
- Stage 8 Jerez de la Frontera / Estepona. Alto Peñas Blancas
- Stage 9 Antequera / Valdepeñas de Jaén
- Stage 10 Torredelcampo / Güéjar Sierra. Alto de Hazallanas
- Stage 11 Tarazona / Tarazona
- Stage 12 Maella / Tarragona
- Stage 13 Valls / Castelldefels
- Stage 14 Bagà / Andorra. Collada de la Gallina
- Stage 15 Andorra / Peyragudes
- Stage 16 Graus / Sallent de Gállego. Aramón Formigal
- Stage 17 Calahorra / Burgos
- Stage 18 Burgos / Peña Cabarga
- Stage 19 San Vicente de la Barquera / Oviedo. Alto del Naranco
- Stage 20 Avilés / Alto de L´Angliru
- Stage 21 Segovia / Madrid
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- Category: 2013 Giro d'Italia
- Italy broke my bike but it didn’t break me, next up France and Le Tour
- On a day like today it’s what’s in your head that counts, not your legs
- This time road closed means road closed
- It comes to something when you consider a 12 mile ride up a mountain a rest day
- How on earth did I end up back here and which way to Venice now?
- Mont Cenis bares its teeth while Andrate is the sting in the tail
- There’s snow stopping me today, I’m heading to the Galibier!
- One eye closed and the other one on the road
- Busseto to Cherasco: A day of three halves
- After yesterday’s pain and suffering what a difference a day makes
- When your first 80 kms are downhill and you pedal all the way then you were probably facing a headwind
- Some days get forgotten and some days are best forgotten but today was one to remember
- The road to Firenze and some welcome peace and quiet after the Med and the Adriatic
- If Carlsberg did Grand Tours then every day would be like this one
- I love it when a tough looking day fails to meet your expectations
- My Garmin Edge has lost its edge and I’m losing my patience with it
- Life outside the peloton: Detours, closed roads, missed turnings and motorways
- 150 miles in a day with a leg busting climb up the Croce Ferrata to finish
- A testing ride to Marina di Ascea, and I’m not talking about the cycling
- A boat trip and a short but hilly time trial on the beautiful island of Ischia
- My 2013 Giro kicks off with a 138.5 km ride from San Felice Circeo to Napoli
- Category: 2013 Tour de France
- An early Monday morning rush hour ride into Paris
- Just when you think things can’t get any better along comes a day like today
- A touch of deja vu on an epic Alpine stage
- Alpe-d’Huez, Alpe-d’Huez, so good I rode it twice
- Three words to describe today’s TT course – terrific, tough and technical
- Vaison-la-Romaine to Gap via the stunning Gorges de la Méouge
- From blazing sun to almighty thunderstorm on the legendary Mont Ventoux
- After two flat featureless days today’s rolling ride to Lyon was really enjoyable
- Last chance for a no rush recovery ride before I hit the mountains and I took it
- A non-stop ride from Fougères to Tours and I expect I’ll pay the price tomorrow
- Mont-Saint-Michel is a sight for sore eyes if only because it means no more cycling west
- After a day of rest and recuperation a rapid ride to St. Malo
- A short but tough final day in the Pyrénées featuring no fewer than five passes
- Into the high mountains and a stunning ride up to Col de Pailhères
- I can cope with the cold and wet but three days of head and cross winds is becoming quite dispiriting
- If I thought I was getting a recovery ride today then a ferocious headwind soon put paid to that
- Even an early mechanical couldn’t put a damper on a ride like today
- After 3 tough days in Corsica the Nice time trial was a welcome relief
- Today I have ridden quite possibly one of the best cycling routes in the world
- Considering today is the Tour’s first Sunday the run across the middle of Corsica was surprisingly tough
- The driver may have changed for Corsica but the outcome is much the same – unless it’s me?
- Category: 2013 Vuelta a España
- The final stage of my final Grand Tour, ever
- The Tour of Spain gets insane
- The rain in Spain definitely doesn’t stay mainly in the plain
- A stunning ride from Burgos to Peña Cabarga on a route that surpasses anywhere I’ve ever cycled before
- From busy highways and autovias to peaceful mountain roads and villages
- Today I rediscovered cycling for the joy of cycling
- Without doubt the longest day I’ve ever had on a bicycle, and quite possibly the hardest
- Despite some unavoidable detours around tunnels and a bit of improvised rerouting, a great day cycling in Andorra
- And stage 13 was going so well…
- Without doubt the most comfortable and enjoyable day’s riding in Spain so far
- A time trial in Tarazona to start the second week of my Vuelta
- First big mountain day with two testing climbs up Monachi and Hazallanas to close out the first week
- Blinded by the bite, well, technically yesterday’s bee sting
- Cycling Nirvana on the C-3331 from Venta de Galis to Jimena de la Frontera
- Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour and today was one of those occasions
- And today we will be taking the N-630 all the way to Cáceres
- I expected Spain to be warm but today’s ride to Lago de Sanabria was hotter than hell
- It may have been at a snails pace but I made it up the Mirador de Ézaro climb
- Considering today’s convoluted route I think we navigated it pretty well
- For Bob: Deeply Loved Sadly Missed
- We’re in Spain to ride La Vuelta starting with a short time trial to settle Kay’s nerves