It's on!

So its done. This morning I entered (along with my new taxi ride - sorry - I mean training partner, Simon Oxenham) the Marmotte 2010! I'm genuinely very excited.

But the South of France is a long way to go for one day, so while on Saturday July 3rd we will ride the Marmotte, on the 4th we will ride the Grimpee de l'Alpe, which is another ride "just" up l'Alpe d'Huez.

Now this may sound nuts, but its a big part of why I'm so excited about it. I know I can do big one day rides (granted though none have been this big) but I really want to know if I can do something this hard, and then something still pretty tough the very next day. For me that is a much bigger challenge than just the Marmotte on its own.

And if I needed any more motivating a very handy fact is that I love mountains. I love them covered in snow and equally covered in lush green trees, I think they are simply stunning. The prospect of spending a day (and a bit) riding through scenes like the picture above just adds to the excitement. My time could be seriously affected by stopping to take photos!

So there we are, gauntlet thrown down. Errr, to myself.