Today, I would try for Albertville.
Although I did not complete my ride to Grenoble the other day, I felt that I was riding well enough to make the roughly 70 mile round trip. Plus, there weren’t any steep mountains in the way, only some short, small hills to negotiate getting through Montmélian on the way there.
Since I had ridden a lot of this route already, all I really had to do was to just continue on the bike path and it would go all the way into Albertville. Easy Peasy. And for once, it was easy and I could just ride and enjoy the scenery on the way there.
I rode past the lakes I had previously stopped at and took in some new scenery.
At last, I rode into Albertville. I had mentioned before that Albertville had hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics. Albertville is NOT a large city. Only about 35,000 people live there. They erected a temporary stadium for the events, and took it down right after the Olympics were over. You cannot find any evidence that the Olympics were ever there except for a small park that now exists at the stadium location.
But there are more pressing matters to attend to. Before setting out on the ride, I googled places to get something to eat in town and found the Boulangerie Raphael, close to the bike path. I was starting to get a little concerned about the weather. As I was eating my Ham and cheese baguette sandwich and my eclair(!), it started to sprinkle rain a bit on me, so the ride home might get interesting.
I did manage to get home pretty much dry, but it was a fast paced 35 mile ride. I did stop to take a few photos on the way back though.
So I finally made it to Albertville. I felt pretty satisfied with the 70 mile ride. Mission accomplished!