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I have my number
Last night I recieved an email from British Cyclosportive regarding the UK etape Tour thingie I'm taking part in on July 1st. They have put together all the riders and now issued numbers; I'm rider 1394, with co-pilot Viv being 1393.
The UK Etape
A major, unique event in the cyclosportive season, following the route of stage 1 of the Tour de France on its historic UK Grand Depart, the event will take up to 5000 riders on an epic 120 mile journey from beautiful and historic Greenwich out of London and through the Kent countryside to finish in Canterbury, in the shadow of the city’s ancient cathedral. A must-do, once-in-a-lifetime chance for any serious cyclosportive rider to blaze the trail of Le Tour itself
Sounds awesome doesn’t it?
Lucky I’ve got my ticket!
That’s right on July 1st I will be one of the lucky 5,000 riders to ride the same course as the Tour De France. Like the exert claims, this will be a once in a lifetime ride; well unless I try to have another go next year.
For more details try the official Tour website or the Everyday Cycling web site.
Landis secures Yellow
Floyd Landis has won the 93rd Tour de France.
The tour started off on rocky grounds with some of the top names being suspended of racing by their teams. Since then the entire race seems to have been turned on it’s head with no real structure to the teams or the race.
A lot of people claimed that since Basso and Ulrich were out the tour had been handed to Landis, I was not too sure about this and could not get behind the Phonak team leader.
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Stage 10
Today the Tour de France enters the first mountain stage; stage 10. So far the race has been a strange affair, the big names are missing, the sprints seem to be at a loss and unorganised there is no team controlling the race or setting the pace. The result of all this ... -
Last minute Shake Up
Pre-race favourites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso are out of the Tour de France after both were named in an anti-doping investigation in SpainBBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Cycling | Ullrich and Basso out of Le Tour Well that really changes the race, time to rethink where my money goes!