Pyrénées 2024 - Day 9 (cont.): WIFE APPRECIATION POST
One other thing: the climb up to Gavernie and Col des Tentes is insanely large and demanding. It's the largest climb I've ever done, easily besting Tourmalet and even some of the insane cycling I did in Colombia a few years ago. (Note to self: still need to put together a travelogue of that trip!)
Col des Tentes is not the most popular Pyrénées climb but still frequented by cyclists in the know. At the top there is an ever rotating cast of cyclists arriving, taking a break, taking photos, and resting before turning around and heading back down.
It is notable and mega-impressive that this day the only woman I saw on the climb or at the top was my superhero wife Mandeep!! She is such a champion. She has been a lifelong commuter cyclist, and got her first road bike a season or who after I got mine - as the joke went, she decided to buy the bike to be able to hang out with her boyfriend. Since that time she has turned into a bonafide baddass cyclist, and together we have spent hours, days, and weeks on our bikes together. Doing world-class hors categorie climbs has become a bit of a normal occurrence for her, and more than a few times I find myself trying to hold her wheel when the road goes up.
I'm super proud and all that she achieves on and off the bike and just can't believe how lucky I am to have her in my life.
I ❤️ you Mandeep!!!
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