Summer Continues to Tease

I'm not convinced it will ever get warm in the Alpes this year.  Today dawned with more rain on top of yesterdays downpours.  Caley and Ramsay kicked me out of the house yesterday afternoon so they could clean in time for someone to come look at the apartment to rent it in September (thank you sincerely boys).  So I got in a great run! I started out hiking up the hill behind our house to warm up, and as soon as I got onto the Col de Leschaux road I started running.  At one point I considered trying to go all the way up and call someone to come get me, but then it started to sprinkle....and then downpour!  I hid under some trees for about 10 minutes or so, but finally just gave up and headed back down the hill.  The clouds were actually a bit thinner and I ran out of the main part of the storm.  Ended up being about 5 miles in about an hour.  I can understand why Caley is frustrated by the speed of running...

The past few days we've been trying to get on our bikes when the weather allows and Caley has been covering the Dauphine.  I went with him down to the area near Alpe D'Huez on Saturday, fully intending to ride the climb, but we ended up napping in the car and coming straight home :)  It was an early morning, the race was supposed to start at 9am!  Usually they don't get rolling until at least 2pm or so.  I think some of the riders were protesting...they hadn't even left the busses at about 5 till 9.

Someday last week, I can't even remember the day, Ramsay and I rode over Col du Leschaux to meet up with the race as it came through the little town of Cluse.  We sort of raced each other.  Let's just say a lot of trash talking was had....apparently Ramsay needs more of a warm up or something like that (excuses!!)  We sat at our favorite patisserie and had coffees and ate sandwiches while we waiting for the racers.  Here's when they finally came through:

Caley rode his bike home and I drove sag for him.  Of course, he didn't just go home, had to make a detour to the top of Le Semnoz, the local gigantic climb.  Ramsay and I had fun blasting the stereo in the car for him and of course doing a little heckling out the window.  Caley is freaking fast on the bike, in case you weren't aware.  I never get to really see how fast when we ride together because he rides at a speed that I can keep up with... There are some pics in the gallery at the bottom of the page from that ride.

Let's see...we spent a lovely evening in downtown Annecy last week, we hadn't been down there for awhile.  Of course we ran into awesome live jazz on the canal...

Other than that we've been eating delicious food, watching a lot of the French Open on tv, trying to find internet, etc.  I finally dug into some school stuff and I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the classroom flipping stuff, now to actually DO IT!