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Saturday: nice little roll out from St Marie de Campan, followed by a persistent but tolerable climb up the Col du Tourmalet (east side), fab 20km descent to Luz St Sauveur for a pizza...
..then a chat about whether we rode up the easy of the hard side of the Tourmalet...
About 10 minutes later, Smiff and I decided to find out by turning back and climbing the fucker again from the west side. 20km of tolerable, then intolerable, then excrutiating pain and a little bit of sick in my mouth, then reached the summit :-)
Brilliant end to a week's riding in the Pyrenees. And not bad for a card-carrying hill-hater.