The Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge

Christophe CABLAT (CC N°8186) et Boris THOMAS (CC N°8188) nous proposent ce challenge.

Christophe CABLAT (CC N°8186) and Boris THOMAS (CC N°8188) offer us this challenge.
 
The Pyrénées are international: French, Spanish and Andorran. The Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge offers you 534 road cols of the Pyrénées in France, in Spain and in Andorra. You will climb the 10 cols over 2000 m of altitude in the Pyrénées. Of the 534 cols 23 cross the border between France and Spain.

The Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge is an homage to this great pyrénéist and cycletourist (1933-2004), the author of many guides and topos for walkers, creator of the Haute Route des Pyrénées for cyclists as well as the Tour des Pyrénées for cyclists, a circuit of 1490 km with its 21000 m of climbing. It is exactly this Tour des Pyrénées for cyclists that serves as the reference for this challenge, that « provides » the cols. The cols in the Challenge’s catalogue are those present on Véron’s route as well as all the cols in the interior of this route.
 
Génèse d’un Challenge du Club des Cent Cols

This Challenge is open to both members and non-members of the Club des Cent Cols. It could besides form the basis of the first 100 cols for a new member, or simply be a motivation to discover and enjoy the Pyrénées.

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How it works

To sign up for this challenge, you need to fill in the application form accepting the rules of the Club des Cent Cols. Please mark this document with your name. Don’t forget to write your name and above all your membership number if you are a Club des Cent Cols member.
 
The cols must be climbed in accordance with Club des Cent Cols rules.
Cols climbed before signing up for the challenge can be counted.
The cols of the Challenge are those included in the Catalogues at the time of the creation of the Challenge, and this list is definitive. If in future cols are added to the relevant zone by additifs, they won’t be counted for the Challenge..
 
The 3 levels of the Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge :
The Bronze level of the Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge is obtained after having climbed 178 of the 534 cols in the catalogue ie. 1/3 of these cols.
The Silver level of the Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge is obtained after having climbed 356 of the 534 cols in the catalogue ie. 2/3 of these cols.
The Gold level of the Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge is obtained after having climbed all of the 534 cols in the catalogue.
 
There is no time limit, if you like the mountains, enjoy yourself.
The participants are independent, a helmet and other cyclists’ safety gear are strongly recommended.
Each country has its own traffic laws and you must obey them.

A diploma Georges VERON Pyrénéan Challenge (gold, silver or bronze) will be awarded when the requisite number of cols have been climbed. The participant will be able to print the Challenge’s diploma himself, or to have it sent to him by the challenge’s organiser for the price of six euros payable to Club des Cent Cols (6€ this sum covers the cost of the special paper, printing and postage). It can also be presented to you by hand at during one of our Club des Cent Cols gatherings, please ask if you require this.

A Roll of Honour of diploma holders for each Challenge and for the signed up participants (with their level of progress) will be set up. At first this list will be available from the challenge’s organiser, the conditions of its insertion in Club des Cent Cols publications will be decided later.
A number will be given in the order of inscriptions.

The yearly claim will be done by sending the excel file to the Challenge organiser :    who will analyse the results and establish the Roll of Honour.

The cols in the challenge can be downloaded here, don’t forget to put your name, and above all your Cent Cols membership number if you are a member, on the Excel sheet without which it may be lost. Please place your name on the file.