To everyone who reads this I'm really sorry it's been over a week since I've done anything on this, it's just been so jam packed I'm sorry. Since I last wrote something a lot has happened, i've raced in marseille, I've made a really good friend in the Danish girl just because we have so much in common, I've had my birthday, sweet 16 in France, it's snowed on the peaks, I've ridden the Galiber and I'm not sure if you know the climb but in about 30mins I'm going to go a ride the Grannon (last ridden in the tour around 1994), It's said to be the hardest ride in this area (topping Alpe D'huez and Galiber) so I'm goign to go and try and put a good time down, I've made a lot of new friends, and I currently have the best 50m Freestyle time for the moment (sayign more about the dismal efforts of kids at the schoolr ather than my ability). I'm going to write 3 blogs and this first one will cover last week plus Galiber the second will cover Marseille and the third will cover the past 3 days.
The picture is of my school and the front gate, what a view though ey.
Almost the first writing on the road of the Galiber is "Yell for Cadel!"
I can't remember but I went for a 70 km ride in which i did 2 cols an HC and one which i'm not sure wether it was a 2 or 1, remi said 1 but i don't believe him. I went up to something like 2640ms high and when the last kilometre is at 12% it's hard to tell wether it's the alititude or it's just because your wrecked but you really can't breath. I'm not sure of my time but i wasn't overtaken on the way up so it's all good :)
Galiber is amazing, you watch the tour on the TV and it sorta doesn't look real, super humans do super human things in a world were the fans are crazy and the writing on the road just looks amazing, but when you ride galiber, it's so much more real. The writing is just crazy some of it's smudged or has run because of the rain but a lot of it's so clear it's amzing there still Armstrong/Basso comments and Ullrich comments it's awesome. Some writings been written over cause theres just no more space. The climb hurts, it slowly gets steeper and steeper, it zig zags a bit but more or less it jsut goes accross the mountain. The vegetation is pretty low and theres no shelter from the sun. It was a hot day when i did it and i cooked pretty bad on the way up, got a good tan line out of it though. At the time I was going up a Motor bike club was coming down, they just kept coming, it was sorta annoying but i just kept going so it worked out ok. The last Km was awful, I finished with an attempt at a sprint, didn't really come off well but it was still good fun.
The first week and a half of schools been fun, my class is pretty good if not a little weird, everyones really accommadating, and slowly i'm starting to have better conversions with them, the girls are cooler than the guys, the guys in my class sorta don't want to know me but i think it's because I hang out with the guys in the year level above, they're cool I ride with them, go to the gym watch soccer games, watch ice hockey games, run with them it's pretty cool it's a really social town it's awesome. English is starting to become boring because I'm not aloud to do anything sometime I get to read a paragraph or give the class a synomyn
(evidently I'm not aloud to teach them how to spell) and that's nice but it's rare. I'm getting by ok in class except when the teacher starts dictating then a classmate will photocopy their notes for me so it works out well.
For now I have to go got to ride then I'm running to the gym working out then running home, running here is hard as, a lot harder than cycling here, I've finally been able to run 5kms here with only one rest but I just cant breath I mean at home I can run 7kms on a beach with no stops but here it's just ridiculous. Anyway I will try and get at least another blog off tonight, the Marseille one hopefully, I've uploaded photos of Marseille race and Cassis to Uni however I'm having trouble uploading the pictures of Marseille itself but it'll happen soon.
Ciao for now
Cal
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