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| 1753.1 | I did it | NMGV14::WIEGMAN | | Fri Oct 05 1990 06:18 | 17 |
| I did La Marmotte at the 7st of June this year.
The brochure said it is cyclotourisme, but in my opinion it was more racing.
The distance is 180 Kilometers, and there are three major climbs:
Col de Croix de Fer, Madeleine (including le Telegraph) and Alpe D'Huez.
Total height difference is more then 6000 meters.
There were more then 3000 participants, all starting at the same time (6:45),
so you can imagine how busy it was during the first climb.
You can see it as a time trial, depending on age and sex there are certain
time limits. In my case (M,35) I had to finish before 15:45 hr to get a gold
medal, and before 17:00 to get a silver medal. The rest of the finishers
get bronze. I managed to get a silver medal, arriving just before 17:00.
I can not tell more now, will try to find the brochure and tell more about
it later.
Tonnie Wiegman
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| 1753.2 | La Marmotte ? Too Hard for us !! | IDEFIX::HEMMINGS | Lanterne Rouge | Fri Oct 05 1990 07:25 | 16 |
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The Marmotte was in fact 7th JULY I think... (Was the pain that bad?),
I was thinking of riding it as a birthday present to myself which is how I
remember the date. We rode Le Bouquet (130km near Avignon) and L'Epervier
(204km between Hyeres and St Tropez) in May but thought La Marmotte was
tooooooooo much man. To get in more training time we went for the Louison
Bobet instead on August 5th - this is 192 km with 2 climbs of the Galibier and
1 of the Izoard, and had 2400 starters from the town of Valloire.
I hope to do some more next season but I do have the brochures for all
the epreuves organised by Sports Organisation if anyone wants to see them. I
am resisting the temptation to put all my comments in this notesfile - I hope
to be able to sell it to a magazine first !! However, they are great events -
they are NOT races, but you wouldn't know that when you are riding !!
Robin
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| 1753.3 | et Grenoble? | SHALOT::ELLIS | John Lee Ellis - assembly required | Fri Oct 05 1990 11:44 | 11 |
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RE: .-2
The event you describe sounds like one starting from Grenoble,
including the Alpe d'Huez and several others ... same sort of
deal, different starting times depending on age-groups. It is
billed as a sort of randonneur brevet. I didn't get to do it
last year, but almost... do you know the one I mean? (An Alpine
cycling friend told me about it/taunted me with it. :-)
-john
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| 1753.4 | Another........... | IDEFIX::HEMMINGS | Lanterne Rouge | Mon Oct 08 1990 06:51 | 14 |
| I think you are on about the Brevet Randonneur des Alpes which does indeed start
at Grenoble with differing starting times etc, according to age groups. I'm not
sure if it is now held every year or every two, but it goes Grenoble - Croix
de Fer - Telegraph - Galibier - Romanche Valley - Bourg d'Oisans - Grenoble and
changes direction each year. I know there were some traffic problems especially
when people start at 2 and 3 in the morning. Wadley's book "My 19th Tour de
France" describes it very well.
The "Bobet" by contrast is a true "massed-start" from Valloire, a ski-station
between the Telegraph and Galibier. It is one of several organised by "Sports
Organisation" commemorating various Biking folk-heroes - Anquetil in the
Chartreuse south of Paris, Hinault in Brittany, Bahamontes in the Pyrenees and
so on.
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| 1753.5 | | SHALOT::ELLIS | John Lee Ellis - assembly required | Mon Oct 08 1990 11:07 | 4 |
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Yes, that was the one... thanks. Someday, maybe...
-john
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