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Feeling rather envious of you guys climbing and descending over there in the Vosges and Alps! Did you do that rocky downhill trail @fussballclub ?
I'm riding flat roads but very much looking forward to next weekend's ride: http://www.alpenbrevet.ch - will be the hardest thing I've ever tried. Well actually not quite, as I failed to complete a similar 275km/7000m elev. ride 2 years ago when I had been riding for 2 years. The shame has been severely haunting me since so I have to make up for that ;-)
As my last two big rides (except for a flat 500k) were the Fleche Wallonne in Belgium and Les 3 Ballons in the Vosges mountains a while ago, I was feeling like I might be behind on the HTFU schedule. Yesterday I did a windy, rainy and sub-optimally navigated 100+ which turned out fine, never rode faster than that so I guess I'm ready (enough). Just impossible to take away the anxiousness for something like the Alpenbrevet I guess. Suisse here we come!