January 2010

Col du Soulor

January 22, 2010

Today was 16°c with warm sunshine so I took the chance to ride my first big col of the year. The Col du Soulor is a 21km climb from Saint Savin with the last 7km the most difficult, all 7 and 8% to the summit with a max of 20%. It is a good road surface [...]

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Union Cycliste du Lavedan events 2010.

January 12, 2010

Union Cycliste du Lavedan, our local cycling club are running the following events in 2010. 22th & 23rd May: Tour de 3 Vallées. Open to cat 2,3 and juniors. Teams of five. The following events are cyclosportives mass start time trials and are open to all UCI licence holders, non licence holders must have a [...]

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Gave de Pau

January 10, 2010

The Gave de Pau river starts from Europe’s highest waterfall at Gavernie and flows down the Lavedan valley past Saint Savin to Lourdes before turning west through Pau and on to the Atlantic at Bayonne. It is a very popular trout fishery and in recent years has seen the return of Salmon after an absence of [...]

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Winter Wonderland.

January 8, 2010

Lots of snow this weekend and very cold temperatures again so no cycling for at least a week. We are getting it easy, the rest of Europe sounds much worse, particularly Ireland and UK where normal life appears to have stopped as a result of snow and ice. View the full photo gallery of winter in Saint Savin, January [...]

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