{"id":4167,"date":"2023-06-17T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2023-06-17T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T12:59:49","slug":"blog-of-the-gin-cycling-group-outing-15-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/2023\/06\/17\/blog-of-the-gin-cycling-group-outing-15-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog of the GIN Cycling Group Outing 15 June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the event, six intrepid members of the biking group assembled at the Divonne Lake (ice-cream shack) starting point: Bill, Ivan, Mark, Mervyn, Paul and a late-entry \u2013 our man from the mountains, Peter T.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several apologies for absence had been submitted exhibiting varying degrees of justification (no names, but you know who you are!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monsieur M\u00e9t\u00e9o promised to be benign – warm, dry and no wind. So, it was agreed to accept my proposal of a ride through the open fields to the relative shade of the Jura hills up to the 888m point on the infamous Barillette ascent.\u00a0\u00a0It wasn\u2019t long before Peter (then Ivan Ed.) took over the lead as we headed onwards and upwards.\u00a0\u00a0We suffered varying degrees of pain and fatigue as the gradient increased from a modest 5% up to a more daunting 10.5%.\u00a0\u00a0e-Paul once again demonstrated the clear advantage of bike battery technology over raw lung and leg power as, with the mere touch of a button, he showed at least one fit-looking young interloper a clean pair of heels (or in this case, pedals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The team at 888. It’s all over now..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plus that guy again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The investment of all that time and effort on the ascent was rewarded by a swift and exhilarating descent down the sweeping bitumened bends, where Ivan demonstrated impressive slaloming technique, to Gingins and thence to Trelex and finally Prangins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This passed not entirely without incident as, no sooner had bits started to fall off Mervyn\u2019s bike, than Mark decided to do a mini-Nathan and part company involuntarily with his machine. Thankfully only pride suffered a minor injury this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A table with seven places laid out awaited our arrival at Les Ab\u00e9rieux restaurant down on the lakeside at Prangins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beers were swiftly ordered and consumed before the mystery missing diner \u2013 our BLeader, Stephen, no less \u2013 made his welcome appearance, fresh from 15 minutes \u201cre-education\u201d on a stationary exercise bike. Now that\u2019s solidarity for you, in the \u201cI share your pain\u201d sense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BLeader makes his appearance in time for beer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Students of menus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lunch-time banter covered the usual old chestnuts plus a intriguing discussion, initiated by our resident man of letters, Paul, on what constitutes the toughest sport. Cycling uphill in the heat of the midday sun, notwithstanding, other candidates ranging from mountaineering, ultra-marathons and competitive saunas were proposed.\u00a0\u00a0The common denominator seemed to be utter madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to roll home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With that we dispersed and wended our ways back to our various starting points in the Terre Sainte and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vital statistics:  44 Km, 580m deniv. 3hr in the saddle (+2hr lunch)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author:   Mervyn Powell, faithful member of the peloton<\/em> and frequent lanterne rouge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the event, six intrepid members of the biking group assembled at the Divonne Lake (ice-cream shack) starting point: Bill, Ivan, Mark, Mervyn, Paul and a late-entry \u2013 our man from the mountains, Peter T.   Several apologies for absence had been submitted exhibiting varying degrees of justification (no names, but you know who you are!). … Continue reading “Blog of the GIN Cycling Group Outing 15 June 2023”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}