Mont Ventoux, France
This is the corner referred to in the narrative. You go from 5% to 10% in a matter of metres. The next 7K are are the steepest hovering between 8% to 12%.
Between the 12K to 20K it hovers around 7%+ which would ordinarily be easy but by this stage your legs are really tired.
The last 2K hover around 12%, but interestingly it did not feel that bad perhaps because you could see the destination and possibly also because I had stopped at the Simpson memorial that t...