Ascent of l’Alpe d’Huez
Hi guys,
The other day one guy I know who is doing road cycling suggested me to join a little event he was organizing with other people from the company we are both working in.
The event consists in doing the ascent of the famous sloppy road up to l’Alpe d’Huez (in the French Alps) - and it was the 3rd edition of it.
I said to him “Why not?” but reminded him that I was a unicyclist and that I would try to climb on one wheel. Of course he was pretty amused and impressed altogether!
During the few last weeks, I built a road-centric wheel to equip my KH’29 offroad unicycle - and I moved my T7 handle from my 36er (which got the new touring handle from KHU) to my KH’29, in order to help me as much as possible during this difficult ascent.
Well… the D day arrived - it was last Friday afternoon, and I am pretty happy to have been successful in making it, even though I had to stop a few times to allow my legs recovering a little bit.
Next year I will try to climb without stopping at all: I will try to be in better shape, will start the ascent when the sun will start declining a little (it was HOT last week!!!), will not start my ride from the foot of the mountain but rather a few miles away in order to “heat” the muscles a little bit before starting to climb, etc.
Next year I’ll also try to mount an offroad tire once at the top, in order to do the way down offroad rather than on the road.
This was cool anyway - a lot of nice comments from the people I met, and the nature around is sooooooooooo nice => this was really “fueling” my mind during the ascent!
Anybody reading this who has done this great ascent on a unicycle already?
Cheer, MadC.
