March 1 spring

I'm more or less preparing myself for the holidays in May/June.
Riding from my hometown in the Netherlands to the Mont Ventoux in the south of France.
It's about 1,300 kilometer. At this moment I rode as much as last year but the total distance was somewhat larger. And as a logic consequence I feel stronger than last year. Yesterday I made some kilometers on my race bike and I didn't do my utmost to keep the average above the 30 k/hr.

It might be the weather that I could do this. We didn't have wintry weather since the second decade of December 07. No, temperatures are high and from a bright sunny on Monday we went to a rainy Tuesday, a sunny Wednesday to a wind-still Thursday. But tomorrow it'll rain again and Saturday we'll have storm.
I can't say however we had a stormy winter, far from that. And beside that Saturday is March 1st. The meteorological winter 2007/2008 is over. The book can be closed. Spring can start.

Any plans for 2008?

For myself I wanna climb the Mont Ventoux by bicycle. The MV rises more than 1900 metres above sea level. May 2008 will be the month. Cycling from home to the top of this mountain in the south of France. That is my goal.

To give you an impression in 8 minutes of the climb of this mountain, watch this video