It takes us about 7.5 minutes on average to climb Donegore Hill, which was our primary training hill at home. On day 2 here we climbed for over 20 times that with no let up. Altogether we climbed for over 2 miles vertical. Scenery is unbelievable.
Glad we have disk brakes as some of the folks on rim brakes are having blowouts as their rims are overheating and melting their tyres!! Some big crashes. The downhills are incredible.
The day would not have been complete without flying in the face of common sense, so spare ribs, chips and ice cream chased down the biker pasta, which is becoming sickening. Maybe we will have a beer tonight too.
No bother so far (ahem), other than we are totally knackered beyond belief, and there are a few more dents in the camera!
Greetings from Davy to all the Thales folks. Wish you were here - instead of us, boom boom, etc, etc. To our loved ones - we are being extremely careful, so stop worrying. To Mikey, you are a cheeky git, but keep it coming - all good crack!!
Just about to tackle a 1200m vertical climb in 15 minutes, so over and out!!!
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blowouts ? over heating rims ? what kind of event is this trans alp challenge, it all sounds a bit kinky to me!
There's another team Tango and Cash in the race. Not the most original team name boys.
Ah well only a few hours of the lead. You need to rip the sleeves of those Waterboys T-shirts for aerodynamic purposes.
We get a lot of melted tyres over here as well but mostly on 12th bonfires. Personally I prefer melted cheese.
Best wishes to Ray and Gabriel from Thales nerds. Talking about melted cheese - (no, no, forget that). How is this movie going to end?
Steven, please - does your mother know you're out?! This is a family show!!!
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