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FRA: À propos des Pyrénées

Pour moi, les Pyrénées ressemblent étrangement aux Ardennes — si on veut bien les considérer comme une des chaînes de montagnes. Elles sont moins touristiques que les Alpes, avec des routes plus petites, plus raides, parfois dans un état discutable... Leur beauté est peut-être moins spectaculaire pour les yeux, mais tout réside dans l’atmosphère.

Ces villages où l’on a l’impression que plus que cinq personnes vivent encore la, plutôt que des stations à cinq étoiles — Les Pyrénées dans leur vide peuvent sembler solitaires, presque inquiétantes parfois. Mais cette solitude peut aussi devenir quelque chose d’extraordinaire : l’impression d’être hors des sentiers battus tout en étant au cœur même de l’Europe.
C’est quelque chose que je retrouve dans les Ardennes également, c’est que ce sont deux territoires un peu plus difficiles à aimer au premier abord, mais si l’on prend le temps de les connaître, si l’on cherche vraiment leur beauté…

Sur le fait d’y revenir

Ce qui me fait revenir, ce sont des souvenirs d’enfance : mon père assis sur la terrasse d’une maison de vacances en Suisse, du matin jusqu’au soir, simplement à regarder les montagnes.
Quand je lui demandais, en plaisantant, ce qu’il pouvait bien faire là, ou s’il ne s’ennuyait pas, il m’a appris que les montagnes étaient « toujours différentes ». La météo, les saisons, le climat ont un énorme impact : les montagnes paraissent différentes chaque jour.

Chaque course que j’ai faite à travers les Pyrénées a été complètement différente par la manière dont ces mêmes montagnes apparaissaient. Aujourd’hui, je prends un véritable plaisir à observer.

Finalement, la pomme ne tombe jamais très loin de l’arbre, n’est-ce pas ?

Merci, comme toujours, à nos partenaires de la course:

@albion.cycling
@enigmabicycles
@ridewithgps

📷: @alexduffill

#TPRNo6 #BeMoreMike

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week 13 was about riding in Girona and starting @theunknown_race

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And Just Like That 🎉
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#2025 #2026 #nye #friendsandfamily #cakes

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As is now tradition, Albion photographer and co-founder @ruperthartleyphoto looks back on a selection of meaningful images made over the past year.

Link in bio.

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Portraits of last Le Pilgrimage. Pilgrims in all shapes and sizes. Everyone’s welcome, as long as you come prepared. A pilgrimage is far from easy… and that’s part of the beauty.

Registrations open this Saturday, November 22 — 19:00 CET | 1:00 PM EST | 5:00 AM AEST (Sunday)

#lepilgrimage #graveljourney #gravelbike #cyclingadventures #hotelsaintroch #myhautesalpes #foreveroutsiders

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After an endless climb in heavy rain, the doors of Fort de l’Olive felt like salvation. Cold hands, soaked layers, numb faces, and then suddenly: refuge.

Inside the abandoned fort waited everything a mountain day could ask for: hot coffee, a fire, blankets, crêpes with Nutella and a splash of génépi. Simple things that tasted like victory.

The final checkpoint was reached. The exhaustion was written across every face.

photos: @serialcee @yorit_kluitman

#lepilgrimage #graveljourney #fortdelolive #mountainrefuge #cyclingadventures #hautesalpes

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Twenty moments from the @transpyrenees 2025.
This year marked the 5th edition of the race; a special one, with a new gravel spirit that added even more character to the route.
For me, it was my fourth year photographing the event, and as always, it was one of the most intense but rewarding assignments of the season. The Pyrenees in autumn are unmatched; light, weather, and landscapes that change by the hour.
This time, besides chasing the front of the race across mountains and valleys, I also took the portraits at the start line; something I wasn’t always comfortable with, but that this year felt different. I’m genuinely proud of those faces, that calm before the storm.
Two weeks have passed since the finish, and I’ve had time to look back at those moments; the ones that close the ultra-distance season for me.
Here’s to 2026: new races, new adventures, and more impossible feats captured on the road
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Veinte momentos de la @transpyrenees 2025.
Esta ha sido la quinta edición de la prueba, y una edición especial, con un nuevo espíritu gravel que le ha dado todavía más carácter al recorrido.
Para mí ha sido mi cuarto año fotografiándola, y, como siempre, una de las pruebas más intensas pero también más agradecidas del año. Los Pirineos en otoño son incomparables: la luz, el clima, los paisajes que cambian cada hora.
Este año, además de seguir la cabeza de carrera por montañas y valles, también me tocó hacer los retratos de salida. Es algo con lo que antes no me sentía del todo cómodo, pero esta vez fue diferente. Estoy realmente orgulloso de esas miradas, de esa calma antes de la tormenta.
Han pasado dos semanas desde que terminó la carrera y he tenido tiempo para recordar esos momentos que, un año más, cierran mi temporada de ultras.
Brindemos por un 2026 con nuevas aventuras, más ciclistas por perseguir y más hazañas imposibles que contar.
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#TPRNo5 #TheTransPyreneesRace #ultracycling #cyclingphotography #colorphotography #bikepacking #lostdot #arrieredupeloton #adventurecycling #ridebeyond #tcr2024 #cyclinglife #documentaryphotography #gravelcycling #fastfar #visualstorytelling #cyclinglife

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Trans Pyrenees Race No5: A New Chapter in the Mountains

Up until now, @transpyrenees has always been a love letter to the road, an ultra-distance journey across the mountains between France and Spain. But this year, things have shifted. The fifth edition sees Lost Dot mix things up, taking riders beyond the tarmac and onto mandated gravel parcours to ensure everyone experiences the beautiful portions of off-road riding that the team behind the race have discovered over the past five years.

Starting in San Sebastián for the first time, the race is back in the Basque Country which means a return to the Raid Parcours being ridden East to West. While the route evolves, the values stay firm. Nearly half the field have travelled overland to the start this year, part of Lost Dot’s Green Leaderboard and their push to make ultra racing more responsible for its footprint.

A new start, a new approach, but when it’s all boiled down it’s still what it has always set out to be - a beautifully hard bike race in the Pyrenees.

Photos by @arrieredupeloton @alexduffill

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Stage 2 of @le_pilgrimage proved to be the first real challenge. The long climb through the valley up to the start of the old ‘road’ up to the Galibier most riders focused on getting enough #carbs in.

#lepilgrimage #bikepacking #adventurecycling in

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Resultados, crónicas y enlaces de 2025 ya están en la web (link en perfil). En las próximas semanas compartiremos algunas historias destacadas, pero hasta aquí esta edición. ¡Hora de pensar en la quinta! 🗓️ Inscripciones abiertas el 1 de octubre.
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2025 results, stories and links are live on our site (link in bio). We’ll be sharing some highlights over the next weeks, but that’s a wrap for this edition — time to get excited for the fifth! 🗓️ Registration opens 1 October.
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Resultats, cròniques i enllaços del 2025 ja són a la web (enllaç al perfil). Les pròximes setmanes compartirem algunes històries destacades, però és moment de tancar aquesta edició, i pensar en la cinquena! 🗓️ Inscripcions obertes l’1 d’octubre.

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New friends, new places. Some reconnecting with old friends and colleagues and fairly priced oat milk.

Girona, Barcelona, Costa Brava

February 2025

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My most memorable active days in 2024:
- april in Girona with @theleslierobinson and @dpf
- Amerongen loop with @hammerdownfullgas
- may, riding with my colleague Felix to Roermond (180km)
- june in Girona with @joostkl
- july coffee ride with @irwanus_de_verschrikkelijke and @camoanddonuts (220km)
- september ‘operation pheasant’ with my best cycling buddy @nils_r_jkl
- october kayaking Croton river, NY, USA, with @halsiegel whom I’ve been friends with for like forever…
- october foilage Hanover, NH, USA, with @theleslierobinson that feels like a friendship that has been forever…
- november Veluwe gravel with @mathildevanderweerd and @myrtheoosterhout
- and last but not least: the incredible insane idea of @serialcee to gather a bunch of knuckleheads to ride 500km in 2 days in the darkest and coldest of days. Don’t let my focused look at the pic (by @fatpigeon.cc) fool you - I most def was not the most determined kid on the block. I only did half of what I signed up for but it was epic nonetheless. Big shout out for the hard core gangsters! Love you C.

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