Paris to Barcelona Cycle Ride

James and Stephs Paris to Barcelona Bike Ride

This blog is the Journal of James and Stephanie's Bike Ride taking place between the 17th and 30th July 2010, an unsupported ride taking in 800 miles of road between Paris and Barcelona, with the addition of the stage 14 tour de france ascents of port de pailheres and/or Ax 3 Domaine... both category 1 climbs!

We are supporting the Starlight Foundation a very worthy charity that grants wishes for terminally ill children

We Raised £10,000 for the starlight foundation

I have been asked a few times if I still have any of the routes / planning docs etc. by people looking to do a similar route - yes I do and happy to share, get in touch at james.cole@indigo-leaf.com

Friday 30 July 2010

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And there it was!!... Mission complete
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Thursday 29 July 2010

Day 12 - Sant Julia Vilatorta

Strange suburb full of multi-million pound mansions!!.. Bit wierd really, not exactly a standard stop over town.

We cycles 69 miles today, the first 15 took 2 and a half hours as we climbed up to 1700 meters, we then had a 40 mile down hill stretch out of the foothills, and took us less than 2 hours!.. The last miles were a slog through Vic.. Looking forward to finishing tomorrow.. About 50 miles left
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Wednesday 28 July 2010

Day 11 - Puigcerda

59 miles completed, cycling over the pyrenees ascending three cols along the way

Col 1, Chioli - 1491 meters high
Col 2, ax-3-domaine - 1740 meters high
Col 3, Puymorens - 1920 meters high

After each col we descended to around 900 meters, making the full days ascent 2451!!.. The run in to puigcerda was about 10 miles of pure downhill, and was absolute bliss!

Spain is a lot more buzzing than our recent french evenings, and the tapas on our arrival a welcome break.

Another day of mountains tomorrow, and then down hill to barcelona the day after, for one almighty piss up!
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Day 10 - Belcaire (a day late)

Didn't post a day blog yesterday, not much to report a 30 mile stretch into the foothills, got upto 3000 ft

Dodgy hotel in belcaire! Worst of the trip!... Day 11 magnificent .. Report later
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The last col today was a little surprise, as we had assumed we could go through the puymoren tunnel on our bikes! Nope, we had to go over, scaling to 1900 meters, the highest of the day, and the 4th for me, 3rd for steph
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