The 1910 Challenge - Plans for Summer 2013
Last term at Uni I spent nine weeks sat at a desk revising and eventually sitting exams, you can't focus your whole mind on Economics for all your waking hours though, and although I managed to get out on the bike a bit I also spent a fair bit of time sat at my desk daydreaming about future rides, challenges, races and training that I could do. Back in January I found the video of the Rapha '1910 Challenge' and posted it as one of my Weekend Watch clips. As I watched it again last term I increasingly felt the urge to try it myself, and over the last few weeks, I have drummed it into my head that this ride is definitely on the cards for next summer. So this blog post looks at the route, the history and why some crazy fool like me might want to take up the most arduous mountain stage ever played out in the Tour de France: The History: In 1910, after just eight years since it's genesis, the organisers of the Tour de France first took its competitors to the hi...