Switzerland is the location of the second of team TBB’s training camps. This time there will be a much smaller group, since the race season is in full swing, and some are racing, while others are training at their favorite stomping grounds elsewhere.
I was excited to head to this camp, check out the much talked about climb in and out of the village, as well as have a chance to keep plugging away at my training. Well, the trip from Toronto was pretty smooth. A direct flight from Toronto to Zurich, then a very short walk to the train station, an even shorter wait for the speedy train and a few hours later I was in Aigle, which is at the base of the climb that Leysin is perched on. When I got there the weather that greeted me was rainy and cold. Luckily I was prepared, and had a nice warm jacket, as well as some warning from Donna that it could be rainy and cold one day, and sunny the next. As we drove higher and higher it got foggier and foggier, and it felt like we were climbing into nowhere. Kind of exciting, new place, new training routes and it was going to stay a surprise for a while longer, since in this weather is was impossible to see anything. So once I settled into my new place I took a few pictures from the balcony. Before and after of course. The first is when I got there, and the second is what I woke up to the next morning. And yes they are exactly the same view. Yipee, let the fun begin.
