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Cycling Tours & Events 2011

September 4, 2010

I have updated the Tours & Events page for 2011. There will be more updates over the next few months. http://www.velopeloton.com/tours-events/

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Hottest day of the Year.

August 26, 2010

Today was the hottest day of the year with temperatures in Saint Savin up to 38°c in the shade, so feeling like 45°c in the sun. “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun” as the song goes, well we now have to add Australians to that. Marc Whitehead from sydney is [...]

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Sunset

August 20, 2010

This photo was taken from 1 of our bedrooms at 21:00 this evening as the last sunlight hit the tops of the cloud and moon brightly passed by.

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Fête

August 15, 2010

Saint Savin have a festival for the last 100 years. It lasts 4 days with lots of music and events such as the soccer tournament & pétanque tournament.

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T-Shirts & Photo Prints

August 7, 2010

We now have souvenir t-shirts & other items for sale. You can also purchase prints of selected photos from the website. velopeloton.com by velopeloton More Velo T-Shirts Tour de France Hautacam 2008 by velopeloton Browse the other art available at zazzle

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Begium TV

July 23, 2010

Saint Savin was turned into a TV studio last night. A 1 hour programme was broadcast to Belgium with analysis & discussion of stage 17. Purchase prints of above image or View other products here

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Stage 17 2010 Tour de France

July 22, 2010

I went with some guests to watch the race down on the valley floor just 1km from our house. We watched it on TV until the riders were at Arrens 14 km away up the Col du Soulor. When they had passed we quickly made our way home to watch the final climb. A bit of an [...]

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Stage 17 Weather

July 22, 2010

Todays weather is terrible. Currently it is 10°c with heavy rain and thunder & lightning. At the summit of Tourmalet it is 6°c with 90% humidity.

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La Hurbert Arbes 2010

July 4, 2010

The Hurbert Arbes cyclo Sportive was held today over 164km climbing the Col du Soulor and the Col du Tourmalet. We had 14 riders from Ireland take part. Mary Mulrhrone and Padraig Marrey of Marrey Training Systems, brought a group of 14 riders from Ireland for the sportive. Padraig is the holder of several Irish [...]

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Climbed Hautacam this morning.

July 1, 2010

It was a beautiful morning with clear blue skies. I left straight after breakfast to climb to Col du Tramassel. This climb is the dead-end at the summit after Hautacam, it is another 1.5km further up. At 16km at 8% average, this is one of the hardest climbs there is, it is only beaten locally by the Col du Tourmalet and then only because the [...]

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