{"id":58165,"date":"2026-08-02T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=58165"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:58:00","slug":"the-double-group-ride-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-double-group-ride-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Double Group Ride Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

On Saturday morning, for the first time in weeks I had no running plans so I decided to cycle to Geneva for the 8am relaxed ride to Crans. Since I live near Nyon I set off at 06:50 and cycled towards Geneva, arriving with plenty of time to spare. I then cycled with the group towards Crans. It’s at this point that I saw that I had half an hour before a second group ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw someone riding with a TDC jersey so that’s when I committed to riding with T\u00eate de Course from Nyon up the Jura, and back down. I already had 51 kilometres in my legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made sure to have a pain au chocolat and coffee before setting off with the group. Some of them were fresh, and I wasn’t quite as fresh. Luckily I had plenty of water and electrolytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was one problem with my readiness. I had too few snacks with me, so I managed to hold on for most of the ride. Eventually I bonked right near the top. I bonked within two kilometres of the top so for a steep gradient I stopped, and walked. I was desperate for sugar, but because I was so far back I couldn’t ask the group for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I got to the top of the climb I found that no one was there so I cycled back down solo and decided to stop at the Signy Shell station to get a snack or two. One of those snacks was a pralinato ice cream, which I ate while sitting in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the first time that I bonked on a climb, and that I felt that I needed to walk, but I cycled 120 kilometres with 1800m of vertical gain. The ride to Geneva was at 27km\/h average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What got to me wasn’t the distance, but the persistent climb up the Jura with the second group. This weekend I had no plans, so I didn’t get snacks. That’s why I found myself cycling up the Jura with just one gel. If I had had two or three gels, or other “snacks” then I’d have refuelled and continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect that I was dropped\/forgotten because it was cold in the Jura, compared to the canicule L\u00e9man side. This isn’t a problem. By this point the route had loaded on my Garmin device and I know the way home from everywhere around here. I’ve cycled, run, walked and hiked in plenty of places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was struck by the number of people camping in the forest yesterday. One or two people had tents that linked to their cars, and others had a group of tents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, due to the drought people could not have fires due to the risk of forest fires. I think it would be nice to hike to one of these places, sleep overnight, and then continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I set off in the morning I had no plans to do both rides, but serendipity made it possible. I also didn’t expect to do the full loop but I did. I ran out of energy but with better planning I would have coped with this amount of climbing, as well as the distance. This was a demanding ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>On Saturday morning, for the first time in weeks I had no running plans so I decided to cycle to Geneva for the 8am relaxed ride to Crans. Since I live near Nyon I set off at 06:50 and cycled towards Geneva, arriving with plenty of time to spare. I then cycled with the group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[733,786,6645,195,6603,49],"class_list":["post-58165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-cycling","tag-geneva","tag-group","tag-nyon","tag-ride","tag-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58167,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions\/58167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}