Set out to help my club - The Blancs Gilets - with the organisation of the Boucles de Lasne. I received the GPS track of the 60K and left at 7am with another rider to check out the arrowing of this loop. After 5K we already got some trouble because we arrived in a area where all of a sudden the arrows arrived against our track. A lot of checking, re-checking and then calling Eric Anris, the guy who sleeps on these tracks. He told us we missed an arrow, the arrow was gone, and therefore were in the opposite direction of the track. We continued and the trail was a beautiful mix of climbs and descents, sometimes along very narrow trails. My legs were feeling tired and I was praying for the first feed zone to come along when Eric Anris called me again, and picked us up in his truck to ride us back to the place where we missed the arrow. Seemed that the arrow had been removed again, and again lots of mountainbikers were experiencing what it felt to be lost.
So we were supposed to ride this loop - 4K long and about 85 heightmeters until the last of the entrants had passed. I believe we did it six times, you can see that in the height profile.
Around 11:15 we rode back to the start. My Samsung Galaxy S II suffered from a flat battery so I decided to call it a day and get in my car. This is a nice organised ride and I am sorry that I could not complete the full 30K loop we were supposed to control. But as I have said, I have the GPS track so I can always come back again to ride it on my own.

Endomondo track


Ride Stats : 39K and 975 heightmeters (Garmin) in 2h53mins

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