Mas de Panis

My bicycle has a voice.  It keeps on calling me:  Tony, Tony … where are you ? I have got in six rides in six days.  Five rides were the same 8.61 km route and the time improved by a few seconds on each ride. I have been towing my new 8 kg Bob Ibex [...]

I have been busy and the weather has been bad since I last cycled – on 15 October. I was going to do a repeat of my 12,77 km but at 7km my body said, “No!”. So I turned around at Les Boutiques and my total distance was 8.65km. I think that I should just [...]

This afternoon I took the Peugeot 807 to Mas de Barrasquet in Saint Jean de Laur as Geoff and Sandy Cook arrive there tomorrow and will need it to cart their troops around. I needed a reason to get on the bicycle and I have previously, on one occasion only, done the bicycle ride from [...]

I achieved two best times on this ride: 56 minutes 55 seconds for the 16.95 km, and 3.6 km uphill at an average of 9.9 kph

Yesterday’s ride took me 58 minutes and 12 seconds and today took me 58 minutes and 00 seconds. The 3.6 km Caylus hill took me 22 minutes and 12 seconds yesterday and 22 minutes and 15 seconds today:

When I first cycled this 17km ride in May 2010 it took me 1 hour and 38 minutes. My previous Garmin recorded rides were on: 21 July 2010: 1 hour 5 minutes 21 seconds ……..averaging 17.5 kph 29 July 2010: 1 hour 4 minutes 41 seconds ……..averaging 15.7 kph The Caylus hill of 3.6 km [...]

I last did this ride – or any serious hill ride for that matter – on Wednesday 27 April 2011. I didn’t watch the clock today but this was my best time ever for this route – by 28 seconds: Click here for my stats for this route:

This ride was a logical ‘next one’ for me.  I really have no problem doing my local 46 km ride.  The mental exercise is more taxing than the physical exercise.  The Canal du Midi trip over five days between 29 April and 5 May entails 50 km ‘straight and level’ cycling per day.  (Day three [...]