Day 1: Off early in the morning from Dijon and we hit the road with 3 of the boys, it was a pretty easy day. I think it was roughly 5 hours in the car, to some people that might seem like a lot but I’ve become accustomed to travelling for hours on end in the car since moving to France to pursue a career in cycling.
Before then, driving to Dublin from Banteer 2.5 hours was a trek but now it seems like 4-5 hours is standard.
We got to the resort where we are based for the week and the coach wanted us to take it pretty easy today just to get used to the altitude, weather and to shake out the travel so we went out for an “easy” hour and half. Easy spins when your with the boys are never easy spins… I think I’ve hit some of my peak powers this year on our easy spins.
So we took the long decent out of la Toussiere basically to the bottom of the climb and went back up to the resort again and that took us nearly 2 hours. So we did take it pretty easy. Like I said it was a relaxing day, we got some grub into us and of course the PS5 came out so it was time to game before we hit the sack, Day 2 was where the camp really started!