by Marvin Faure
Jan 17, 2023
This is what it takes to finish the Etape du Tour
Signed up for the Etape du Tour in a moment of enthusiasm and now wondering what you have let yourself in for? If you are a first-timer at...
by Marvin Faure
Oct 31, 2021
Cent Cols Challenge Corsica: the last five stages
At the end of Stage 5 we were in Porticcio, a few kilometres south of Ajaccio on the south-western coast of Corsica. We were half-wa...
by Marvin Faure
Oct 24, 2021
Cent Cols Challenge Corsica: the first five stages
I first found out about the Cent Cols Challenge events in January 2020, when I read an article in Vélo Magazine. The challen...
by Marvin Faure
Apr 17, 2021
Tour du Mont Blanc: how to eat more to finish faster!
Everyone has a story from the Tour du Mont Blanc! Here’s one of ours (name changed to protect the guilty): The firs...
by Marvin Faure
Oct 15, 2019
Sometimes you have to break the rules
I changed age category this year, so throughout the season I was keen to make the most of being one of the youngest. The Haute Rout...
by Marvin Faure
Sep 23, 2019
Pain & Pleasure, Triumph & Disappointment at the Haute Route Pyrenees
Continuing in our occasional series on pacing at some of Europe’s biggest GranFondo events, this post recounts how I achieved my ...