I heard about the Ardechoise cycling festival off the back of Robert Marchand's previous record - it's his club, they named a hill after him, etc - and got insp

I heard about the Ardechoise cycling festival off the back of Robert Marchand's previous record - it's his club, they named a hill after him, etc - and got inspired to travel there and enter one of their Randonneur routes a couple of years ago. The festival has many different routes you can choose from, which overlap, and all of which are marked by the same yellow arrows on the road - which leads to fun times if you miss a turn. Mine was this one: http://www.ardechoise.com/Carte-interactive/Les-Gorges-Montagne-Ardechoise http://www.ardechoise.com/Carte-interactive/Les-Gorges-Monta... ... 608km, but over 4 days. As it turned out, I arrived at the top of the final hill before Saint-Félicien at the same time as a small peloton of riders and journalists surrounding an old man on an electric bike...it was Robert himself. Hope I can still be doing this at his age.