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i-Team Gran Fondo Cymru 2007

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Ladies and Gentlem ... who am I kidding?

Who's on our away team for the day of pain, and who is doing the sadist (as opposed to just plain silly) ride?

While organising an event like this would be an absolute nightmare, finding any information on it from an official source online is worse still! Although to be fair given my line of work I am monumentally bad at 'finding stuff'.

I was looking for a list of entrants, to see how many they were up to, and to see how many, and for what we were putting forward. Syd is sponsored for his local school, and as of now, me for Macmillan - anyone else trying to muster more motivation to get around?

Questions, questions.

If anyone else has links for entry lists, a high res print of the route (same as last year), and or a GPS plot (do all the mapping clients speak the same lingo?) lets get it on and available since I doubt I am alone in managing to source the kinds of things I am looking for and I will make a front page posting out of it.

Last year we won the team award for the Gran Fondo Cymru - I don't think we will do so well this year on numbers (we have competition - jealousy is an ugly thing ;) ) - however there has been a fair amount of preparatory riding to be fair - we could even be enjoying it as opposed to just living through it at this rate!

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Resources...

The i-team website for starters - they are a virtual cycling club I guess, they exist online to join riders without a local club as far as I can tell.

It is currently looking like they are doing some updates to their Mambo/Joomla powered CMS site, so I will not do any direct linking. I will keep an eye on what they have posted there (currently gone from something to nothing - possibly the event is now fully subscribed).

However - here is an outline of the main rides from the 2006 event for reference:

i-team gran fondo route map in PDF format.

i-team super fondo route map in PDF format.

Gran Fondo track in tracklogs format.

Super Fondo track in tracklogs format.

*For those in the club wondering why I am posting this as a closed entry - try googling for i-team and gran fondo and see where people are going to land. Give me a nudge if you notice the iteam site update and me miss it. ./ah