A Paradocs Abroad

We were out walking around Saint-Renan last evening looking at potential rental apartments when we noticed a building in Place aux Cheval with signs for FFCT (la Fédération française de cyclotourisme), and another club, Vélo d'Iroise.

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The latter had a notice board up listing events and the routes for Sunday rides. As we were reading the board, 2 middle-aged guys came over and asked if they could help us. The long and the short of it is that they invited us to join their club ride on Sunday morning. They have 3 levels of ride 65, 95, and 115 km, and longer = faster. Sounds like we'll fit in with the 95 km group, and that's fine 'cause we wanted to do about 100 km as our long ride of the week as training for the Mildenhall 300 km brevet that we're planning to do when we visit the UK at the end of August.

So, 08:00 Sunday morning we hit the road with the Vélo d'Iroise club. Stay tuned to hear how we fare. I think it will be cool, both training for the brevet, and hopefully a chance to improve our casual-conversation french...