Training camp!

This Sunday I plan to start a 5 training camp in the Lake District, using some of the lake districts famous climbs like Whinlatter and kirkstone pass. Although they are much shorter climbs than those I will be encountering in France I plan to simply (!) do hill reps on each. Over a 80 mile course in the lakes it's fairly easy to knock up ascent totals of 3000m, so I'm pretty confident that 5 days of this will really boost my climbing strength. Of course.... I'm still going to suffer like a dog in the Pyrenees, but that's the tour for you :)