Etape 2011!

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  • malcolmfrost
    malcolmfrost Posts: 211
    I've done a Bike Route Toaster course that you can get a GPX or TCX from, not 100% accurate but close enough I think.
    http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=186403
  • boondog
    boondog Posts: 205
    sorry, I didn't thank you for this one. not long to go now, last big ride for me this saturday, then a large rest week (with some slow commutes) before heading out there on Friday.
    My other half is taking the car and kids out 1 day before, and I shall be sat on the train with my feet up watching TV for 6 hours. A nice relaxing way to get there.
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    So.... How did people find it.

    Personally with it being my first Sportive like this I wasn't really sure what the expect. As I hadn't done anything like this I was at the back, number 9703.

    As soon as we all went past the start I knew it was going to be fun, the atmosphere was great! Telegraphe was a nice climb! Galibier was long, a great climb, but great :) Going down was just amazing though!

    Results are out, and to say i'm happy is an understatment. Before I started I would have been happy with 5000ish. I finished 1493 :D How everybody else do?
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  • I am the god of hell fire
    I am the god of hell fire Posts: 326
    Blimey good result

    It was also my first sportive

    I placed in the top third for my class and about half way overall

    Are you sure your result was an overall one rather than for your class?

    Cheers
  • JSS
    JSS Posts: 55
    Willy B...I was the number after you (9703) but I could only finish in 6.45.49...making me 4,158th overall.

    Loved it but could have done without two and half weeks in bed with food poisoning less than two weeks before the start.
  • JSS
    JSS Posts: 55
    Actually make that the number before you...I was 9702.
  • pat_h
    pat_h Posts: 34
    Finished 5000 & something, got a bit dehydrated due in part to when we were waiting for the helicopter to clear, had a "moment" at the 5k water stop. Managed to recover enough to finish. Great day out either way.
    Lack of training meant I was never going to compete so just enjoyed the scenery, atmosphere and a special shout out to the ice cold water on the alpe! never appreciated a mountain stream so much :)
  • ridin8ude
    ridin8ude Posts: 88
    I did both Etapes this year and in the Modane depart village Trek were giving out special t-shirts to people doing both Etapes and telling us they would keep track of those riders.

    Unfortunately I didn't get more detail of how or where Trek were going to track this and publish their rankings.

    Does anyone know anything more? I've tried a few google searches and checked the Etape and Trek websites and can't find anything.

    They gave us special stickers to go on our number plates for the rides but it doesn't have a URL or anything for it

    Would like to know where I stand for both rides even though my times were miserably slow!
  • pat_h
    pat_h Posts: 34
    I thought the Trek tshirts and stickers were for their travel tour http://www.trektravel.com/etape-du-tour-bike-tour.php
    They had their own foodstands etc.
    You can check your times here http://www.asochallenge.com/
  • ridin8ude
    ridin8ude Posts: 88
    Just found this updated on the etape site under 'the Race/Madone Challenge':

    You were more than one thousand of participants registered at the 2011 both acts of the Etape du Tour Mondovélo.

    You have tested courses, cities, atmospheres, weathers and efforts very differents. 314 of you finished the Act 2 with tough racing conditions after coming to the end of the mythical ascents of the Alps.

    So over 1000 signed up for both and 314 finished both - chapeau to those 314...

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