Marmotte Training

[Dombo]

Excellent article in weekend FT about the above, the journo being coached by our very own Huw and going on to successfully complete the ride. Training only started in April!

[Keith]

Link to the article: [url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6f3f4d0c-a87c-11e0-8a97-00144feabdc0.html]Summit fever[/url]

[huw williams]

Cheers Dom, Looked weird seeing it in the big, pink paper version. Tom (the FT travel editor) didn't want to write it from a performance perspective but he got round in sub 8.5 hours which we were pretty pleased with on 10 weeks preparation.

His previous experience on a bike was typically fleet-street journalist... any ride of over 2 hours was considered such a major achievement that he'd spend the rest of the day in the pub celebrating, so there were a lot of lifestyle changes involved as well as the training.

The other guy, Mike, he refers to in the article is the travel editor for the Guardian who also completed the challenge and is writing a similar feature in that paper. Mike was your typical 'have-a-go' type but at 85kg+ not very suited to the Marmotte. Mike has threatened to take my life as soon as he can find me after he got round the course in 10 hours - so should be interesting to see how his story compares

[Dombo]

Considering it took me over 8 hours to heave my svelte 70kgs around the 120 mile Dragon course this year I may have need of your services at some point in the coming months!

[Dan_K]

Hang on a minute, i'm approx 85kg and thinking of doing the Marmotte. Should I forget it??!!

[Phil H]

[quote="Dan_K"]Hang on a minute, i'm approx 85kg and thinking of doing the Marmotte. Should I forget it??!!

[Dombo]

[quote="Dan_K"]Hang on a minute, i'm approx 85kg and thinking of doing the Marmotte. Should I forget it??!!

[huw williams]

[quote="Dan_K"]Hang on a minute, i'm approx 85kg and thinking of doing the Marmotte. Should I forget it??!!