We have a four-day Ascension Day holiday weekend with very Summer-like weather; early mornings have been still relatively cool, +15C at most, but afternoons quite hot, +30C and plus. We deviated a bit from our marathon training program, and on our rest day (May 26) did a 128-kilometer bike ride […]
to Asics Stockholm Marathon for which we have been training most of the Spring. Yesterday (May 13, 2017) we had our last very long run, 30.15 kilometers. Once again we took the Transisère bus to Goncelin, and ran back to Grenoble, or more specifically to the university campus in Gières, […]
(April 22, 2017) We did an easy hike from Le-Sappey-en-Chartreuse (999m) to L’Écoutoux (1406m) with a total climb of 551 meters. We are half way in our marathon training schedule, so we did not want to push ourselves too much on the rest day, but wanted to enjoy the sunny […]
(April 17, 2017) Yesterday we did our weekly long run on Vercors plateau under cloudy skies and in a freezing wind. Today we did an easy recovery “run” on two wheels under the perfect blue sky and just cold wind, riding to Voreppe along the Isère river (~40km). Once in […]
(April 7-9, 2017) This was another extended weekend trip to the neighboring town, only 25 kilometers North-west of Grenoble. The reason for the trip was Lisa Simone’s (Nina Simone’s daughter) concert that was part of the Voiron Jazz Festival, but we also did some nice trail running and hiking. Unlike […]
Another attempt to find snow for skiing. Did we find any? No. And how could there any be with the afternoon temperatures recently reaching mid-teens? The weather forecast promised a cloudy day, but as soon as we were on the Vercors plain, the sun came through the clouds, and we […]
We booked another weekend escape from polluted Grenoble in the little village of Cervières (pop. 183 in 2014) in the department of Hautes-Alpes. We stayed in a small cosy studio, heated by a pellet stove, on the ground floor of an ancient building (seen below in the far end of […]
People say that Chambéry is a boring town. How can it be when it has (at least) two great beer bars and hosted The Ukulele Orchestra of the Great Britain at Espace Malraux. The latter was our reason to visit the town in mid January. The weather was not. We […]
This time we had an earlier start and headed to Chartreuse. We parked the car on the church parking lot in Le Tournoud, in Commune de St. Pancrasse. There was a memorial for the “children” of the community who had deceased in WWII, referred to as “les Petites Roches.” I […]