Day 5, Stage 5
Le Cap d’Agde – Perpignan 196.5km
Today’s stage took us 13 hours and 35 minutes to complete! Luckily we encountered beautiful scenery for most of the ride to keep our minds occupied. We had two major detours where we got ourselves lost for a while but other than that we navigated pretty well.
For [...]
Day 4, Stage 4
Montpellier – Montpellier 39km
Today the Crohn’s Crusaders set the slowest time trial speed in cycling history! A 39km time trial around Montpellier took us forever as we took so many wrong turns and got lost so often.
Despite the snail’s pace we crossed paths with our first professional team of the ride today [...]
Day 3, Stage 3
Montpellier – La Grande Motte 196.5km
We are not a well-oiled machine at all!
The first 3 days have been characterised by being lost and getting agitated.
On the positive side it was Marika’s longest single day ever.
We actually pulled up 20km short of our destination as we ran out of light so will ride [...]
Day 2, Stage 2
Monaco - Brignoles 187km
Unfortunately we couldn’t meet all of the TX Cell team last night because we got in so late so we caught up with David, who is co-ordinating the Mont Blanc climbing project, for a hearty pre-ride breakfast. It was possibly one of the best breakfasts I’ve ever had, not [...]
Thursday 4th June
Day 1, Prologue
Monaco 15.5km
We are finally here at the starting line of the 2009 Tour de France route and can’t believe it after all these years of hard work and preparation.
Monaco will be a great place for the 14km Tour de France prologue so make sure you watch it on TV on the [...]
Simon Gerrans and I both grew up in country Victoria. I thought I would mention that geographical link because physically there aren’t many links to speak of!
My max V02 (which tests aerobic capacity) is 44 (atrocious)! Simon’s is 84.
I watch 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre on TV. Simon is his team mate and [...]
