We are on the official Transalp Challenge home page - get it here! (the Home Page)Just completed Day 4, and what a day. We are now in Livigno, Italy, scene of a previous skiing excursion for us and our special friends a coupla years ago. It is just as we remember it - there was no frickin snow then either!
Sun splitting everything today all day again, and the heat is a KILLER. Best day so far in terms of stuff to look at whilst you are climbing 1,000-odd metres first thing in the morning. The downhills were the best yet too, as we didn't have to brake ALL the time - we just had to stop ourselves from falling to a certain death off some of the corners.
Our bikes are simply CLASS. Aside from our obvious good looks and infectious charm, we are getting lots of admiring and envious looks and comments as we rip down through the pack, and the bikes are class on the singletrack stuff. Anybody know what "Shnell, der Irlander Scheisse Fokker!!" means?
One of the highlights of the day was early on the first climb, seeing one poor chap try to turn round on a cattle grid. If you don't bike, you might have to think about it. Very very funny, and even he saw the joke as 38 nations mocked him and laughed heartily.
Rowan and Simon are the Irish dudes on a roll for sure - those fellers are SMOKIN' the trail day on day. Every day when the rest of us are finishing, they meet us at the line having already been to a movie, done some shopping for new outfits, been for a couple of pints and finished off with a Chinese banquet. Amazing fast chaps for sure. Especially when you consider the pieces of crap they call bikes that they are travelling on!
WE are keepin' it real out here, dudes. More rubbish tomorrow. Off for a beer now to celebrate making it half way anyway. Enough awreddy!
3 comments:
Message to Andy Ruck from the younger and better looking of your sisters-in-law - put down the fatty food! You're another year older, moving out of middle age towards old age at high speed! Bike safe old man! XO
You guys are going well for 2 inbreds, sorry 2 guys riding inbreds
Well done, chaps. Alp me if you can, I'm feelin' down (down, down), Alp me get my feet back on the ground (ground ground).
Glad to hear that you are in the midpoint of your cycle; that's when you're at your most fertile. Hope the nuts are standing up to the constant pounding (and the daytime biking too).
Horrified to hear about the Other T&C. This is dreadful news, and I would refer you to the episodes of Simon Magus and the Seven Sons of Sceva in the Book of Acts. Accept no imitations!
Bike safely! (Tango - that means *you*).
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