The boys are going up, again. Follow the stupidity here as they conquer 20,000 metres of hell in a week. Or not; we'll find out. September 3 - 10 2011.
Le Route. Oh.
Friday, 29 July 2011
The plan forms
January 6, this year. We have a team, sort of, we have a date...September 3, we have a suggested route. It's the Alps again; masochism rules. Nothing else is agreed, except that Rapha offer the same deal for £2,800. Yeah, right.
1910: At the top of the Aubisque, Desgrange (the founder of the Tour De France) and the other officials awaited the first riders. It was Lapize who emerged first, his face a perfect rictus of agony. On the stage’s final climb and with the pain of the Tourmalet still in his legs, it was at that moment that Lapize uttered the words for which he would become famous: “Vous êtes des assassins!”
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