Rest Day

Having gotten back to the hotel late Thursday night, we needed some rest. We slept in and had a lazy day which was just what the doctor ordered. Squirrel and I started off about 3pm to do the Col de Glandon and the Col de Madeleine where we were going to meet up with Slug who drove there to do the Madeleine. So our rest day ended up being about 4.5 hours and climbed the 15 mile long Glandon and the 12.5 mile long Madeleine, both up to 2000 meters in altitude. Slug had a more traditional (read: not manly) rest day and did half the Madeleine for about an hour of saddle time. The one thing you realize about these climbs is how amazing it is that the pros can go so fast on them. These are monster climbs and we are taking them relatively intensely and going REALLY slow. Very humbling.