by Marvin Faure
Jan 6, 2024
Training Guidelines for the Etape du Tour
Photo: Sportograf The Etape du Tour is a mass-cycling event for amateurs, organised on exactly the same route as one of the Tour ...
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...