Members of the MeadWestvaco Mont Ventoux Challenge

  • Jan Theelen, MeadWestvaco Venlo, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Sylvain Thibaut, MeadWestvaco Deols, France, Racebike
  • Celio van Gerwen, MeadWestvaco Uden, Netherlands
  • Santiago Casado, MeadWestvaco Hemer, Germany, Walking
  • Georg Reinhard, MeadWestvaco Trier, Germany, Mountainbike
  • John Sturkenboom, MeadWestvaco Uden, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Martijn van Diepenbeek, MeadWestvaco Uden, Netherlands, Mountainbike
  • Mark van der Cruijsen, MeadWestvaco Uden, Netherlands, Mountainbike
  • Steve Cooke, MeadWestvaco Bristol, England, Walking
  • Julien Rayée, MeadWestvaco Roosendaal, Netherlands, Running
  • Twan Beurskens, MeadWestvaco Venlo, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Peter Theelen, MeadWestvaco Venlo, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Chris Schuts, MeadWestvaco Venlo, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Jeroen Evertsen, MeadWestvaco Enschede, Netherlands, Mountainbike
  • Dick Klein Egelink, MeadWestvaco Enschede, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Ramil Nigmatullin, MeadWestvaco Moscow, Russia, Running
  • Patrick de Laat, MeadWestvaco Uden, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Michel Tanguy, MeadWestvaco Troyes, France, Racebike
  • Christophe Raby, MeadWestvaco Troyes, France, Racebike

Non MeadWestvaco members

  • Ronald van Heertum, Uden, Netherlands, Racebike
  • Marcus Gluth, MWV Contractor Hemer, Germany, Racebike
  • Heiner Korschewski, MWV Contractor Hemer, Germany, Racebike
  • Thomas Nicolai, MWV Contractor Hemer, Germany, Racebike

MeadWestvaco's Mont Ventoux Supportteam

  • Daniel Westphal, MeadWestvaco Hemer, Germany
  • Michael Hofer, MWV SHE SBS Europe, Austria

Tuesday 27 May 2008

From Ventourist to Ventousiast

This weekend the MWV Mont Ventoux Challenge 2008 has took place in the South of France. We where with 25 members who had all there own challenge. The forecast for the weather conditions where very bad and as specially on Sunday so that a lot of people decided to climb on Saturday and eventually on Sunday. There where four people who attempted to climb the Mont Ventoux from all the three routes and they started also on Saturday because to achieve this challenge in perfect conditions is a challenge on his own. The weather in the valley was good but the top was covered with clouds and the wind was blowing with wind speeds up to 150 km/h. But our members went on and at he end of the day several people climbed the mountain 1,2 and four of them even 3 times under terrible conditions.
Sunday did several people an other or there first climb, it started raining short after the start and the top was still in the clouds. The wind speed was a not so high as Saturday but still above 100 km/h. On Saturday it where the cyclist who climbed but on Sunday we had 3 people who walked, and one who was running the route, they all got to the top and by that they for filled there challenge. Several bikers started to and at the end we had a best time from 1:38 on the bike and a 2:05 by running. After our sports achievement we came together in the hotel and had dinner where everybody got a certificate. Here the first voices came up to do this on a yearly base, and the first idea's got born all ready. The weekend was a 100 % success and this due to all the members, we as "MWV Mont Ventoux Challengers" where a great team on the slopes of the Mont Ventoux. My thanks to all of them.
I went as a "Ventousiast" with 24 Ventourists to the Provence. I think I affected several people with the Mont Ventoux virus and a lot off them changed during this weekend from "Ventourist to Ventousiast", and will come back to him in the future.



Here yo see some first pictures which I had available, more will follow as soon as I have them. So keep regular looking on this web log!
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