Revoici quelques mots en français sur mon blog! Je vais essayer de publier à la fois en anglais et en français lors des prochains évènements sportifs auxquels je participerai. Vous pourrez donc faire votre choix. J’ai ajouté sous le menu « Accueil » une sélection des articles en fonction de leur langue. Vous aurez donc des nouvelles de la Coupe du Monde Portugal à Celorico da Beira dans notre langue maternelle.
Archives de catégorie : Compétitions PWCA
2014 World Cup – Portugal: Introduction
Introduction. When I wrote down that word in the title, already looking for ideas to fill in the blog entry, I was wondering: have we been introduced? Do you know me, you who read me, speak about me or talk to me? Maybe, maybe not. Texts published here may denote that I have the easy life, having fun, traveling around the world. But, as an example, how many have any idea about what happened in my life over the last year and a half.
2014 World Cup – France: Conclusion
Frist words of conclusion have to be for the local organizer of the PWC Cœur de Savoie. Weather forecasts have had a hard time, organizers have had a hard time, and it started right on the registration day when the prediction for the whole upcoming week was awfull. After the closing ceremony, it must be said this organization has been more than excellent, a full success. They build a great village with lots of animations, booths attended by local producers, hundreds of children visiting and discovering our activity, bands playing, a very large ballroom for breakfast and dinners, plenty of shuttles and tons of volunteers, more than 40 sponsoring partners… Impressive.
2014 World Cup – France: Saturday 31, 47km Race to Goal
And we bagged a fifth tast for the Coeur de Savoie event! None of them have been easy to set for the organizers. This one in particular has played a lot with their nerves. Friday evening the weather forecast for Saturday was looking fantastic. Saturday morning the forecast dimmed to a nice day. And then we had to face real life when arriving at the HQ: fully overcast sky by a thick cloud layer. The departure of the shuttles was delayed hour by hour, until we drove up to Ebaudiaz at 1pm.
2014 World Cup – France: Friday 30, 46km Race to Goal
Another task today! In spite of all weather forecasts, this comp managed to break the spell that usually doomed events in the Alps. Nevertheless, given the wind strength prediction, taking into acount the risk for thunderstorms in the early afternoon, the organizer set a short task involving so many turnpoints that I cannot recount how many, also cutting any possibilities for radical options on the course.
