Thursday, May 29, 2008

Heading off for the Mont Ventoux

Today, after work, we (Dad, his colleague Filip, and my brother Ruben), will head off to the south of France, to cycle on the Mont Ventoux on Saturday.
I've been trying to get in shape this winter doing some Spinning in the local fitness-club, and started training outdoors on the first of April. In march, the weather in Belgium was so lousy, we couldn't train much outdoors... With a busy job, and not so much free time to spend, I managed to train about 1000 km outdoors, combined with some spinning, and indoor training on my race-bike. I know that is not really enough, but I feel alright, with a loss of 5kg bodyweight.

The ultimate goal is to climb the Ventoux 3 times, from the three surrounding towns, Bedoin, Malaucene and Sault. Which should add up to a total of 135km, and 4390 meters of altitude difference to bridge. But, since I have completely no idea what to expect, and how my body will react to almost two hours of non-stop climbing (one climb), we will have to wait and see if this is a reasonable goal...

The weather forecasts are satisfying, I've been relaxing the last week, and preparing everything to leave. I've been changing my diet the last couple of days, to get some more carbohydrates into my body. This is the fuel for the muscle, but it's not easy to get enough. To give an example, the two days before the big day, you should get +- 600 grams of carbohydrates per day. In eatable stuff, thats: 12 slices of brown bread (100 grams ch), 5 bananas (100 gr ch), 300 grams cornflakes (200gr ch), 750ml of sportsdrink (100gr ch) and a nice dinner.

So, I'm off to eating my second cup of cornflakes now...

I'll post some pictures with a report when I'm back on tuesday.

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