Today was the dreaded day of the tour climbing two Hors (beyond) category climbs. Tammy took a sick day today and stayed in the hotel to accelerate her recovery (I’m glad to say I think it helped a lot). I took the shuttle to the stage. The plan was to ride about 40k to the base …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Tour de France 2004 Stage 17 - Bourg d'Oisans to Le Grand-BornandToday was the most hyped stage of the 2004 Tour de France. When the tour route was announced last fall they had placed all the mountains and the individual time trials at the last half of the race. This would leave the race very open until the end. As it turns out, Lance was able …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Tour de France 2004 Stage 16 - Bourg d'Oisans to L'Alpe d'HuezTammy and I are in a smoky Internet cafe in Grenoble…
Sounds like the beginning to a good novel. :-) However, this keyboard is french! And it is shockingly similqr yet different. Forget qwerty, it’s azerty!
Anyway just letting people know we have arrived. The keyboard and smoke are too much! We ride tomorrow…
Au revoir!
This is the first day that we actually get to see the Tour de France on the road. We went out for the short ride option today since I was recovering from my cold and Tammy was of course starting to get the early symptoms of it. There should be a way that you can trade vacation …
Keep reading · 7 minutes: Tour de France 2004 Stage 15 - Valreas to Villard-de-LansI was pleased to wake up this morning feeling better than yesterday. A good nights sleep thanks to Nyquil and variety of other incantations seemed to have helped me out. Hopefully Tammy wont get any whiff of this quick cold. The car is completely loaded and we’re just waiting to …
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