July 23, 2009 – 6:54 am
Day 22, Stage 16
Martigny – Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 159km
Today was the most beautiful stage of the tour so far. We had two massive climbs to complete high in the Alps covering Switzerland, Italy and France. It really was magic and days like today are so inspirational and just made us so happy that we are crazy enough [...]
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July 23, 2009 – 6:01 am
Day 21, Martigny Rest Day
Today was meant to be a relaxing rest day in the Alps but because we didn’t finish the final climb yesterday we had to go back and do it today to successfully complete the stage.
This was a real pain as I had a great friend of mine from Switzerland (Carole who [...]
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July 23, 2009 – 5:38 am
Day 20, Stage 15
Pontarlier – Verbier, 207.5
Today sucked. It was our worst day for the tour so far and probably the worst ride I’ve ever had. It was a hard enough course to begin with (with 6 categorised climbs) but we were just absolutely hammered by the conditions. We had the worst headwind of all [...]
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July 21, 2009 – 6:29 am
Day 19, Stage 14
Colmar – Besancon, 199km
I was moaning about no flat roads in France in one of my recent updates. Well, we finally found one! We had a flat track for most of the first 50km and also had a tailwind as well which helped us clock our fastest stage of the tour at [...]
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July 21, 2009 – 6:02 am
Day 17, Stage 13
Vittel – Colmar, 200km
We stayed at the dodgiest place in France last night (I’m disappointed now that I was too tired to get some footage last night as I’m sure this is where the Amityville Horror was filmed) and to top it off the dodgy sleazebag hotelier tried to rip us off [...]
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July 21, 2009 – 12:48 am
Day 18, Colmar Rest Day
Thank god for this rest day. We are all feeling the pinch a bit. We are a bit heavy in the legs and our bodies are starting to hurt but more than anything we are just tired from lack of sleep.
Mum and Dad finally got out to have a look at [...]
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