Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Challenges and Achievements
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Here’s my succes story: About three years ago, I decided to sign up for the 2020 Liege-Bastogne-Liege sportive, a 255km (and 4500m climbing) as my dad did it a long time ago and never stopped talking about it.

I finally managed to do it last weekend:

Never having done anything over about 150km, I set myself a goal to do it within 10 hours. In the end it was 10:02, which is close enough for me (Some of the feeding stations were rather busy)

Did think of @abicarver every time I was barreling down a poorly surfaced hill at silly speed, telling me: “relax into the pose”.

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It was brilliant!

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Nice!! Now you can carry on the tradition!

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Solid! A great achievement, congrats.

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Awesome effort and that smile at the end says you didn’t Suffer enough. Or is that a grimace?

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:sweat_smile: I’ll try harder next time. My wife said the same thing, she must have GvA on speed dial …

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Awesome! Well done!

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Brilliant work. Well done Sir

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Congratulations!!!

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What a fantastic achievement! 10 hours is wildly impressive. I am happy to hear you could channel my attempt to relax your nervous system as you sped down those hills!

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Congratulations! It’s one that on my list to do as well as Paris Roubaix!

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