Tour de Blog
During the month of July ’07 as the Tour de France winds its way through the UK and France I will be with the pack, completing 2 stages with them. Stage one, London to Canterbury, a flat, almost down hill stage on home soil. Stage 7, the reason for it all, a stage the tour is famous for, an alpine stage. Of course I won’t be with the peloton but I will be racing. Tour officials shut the road that’s to be used by the riders one hour before the race passes through. On both stages I will set off on the same route, from the same start line two hours before them, giving me an hour buffer to complete the race before I’m caught and asked to pull over. A professional rider will cruise in the pack at around 40kph, add to that the power of their sprinting and already I can feel them breathing down my neck. These guys are freaks of nature, their legs are machines, they feel no pain … what have I done!