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Giro d’Italia 2009
I can’t really call myself a sports fan, but for the past few years I’ve been glued to the internet, watching, listening or reading(!) the Tour de France. These past two weeks, mainly because of the...
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Tour de France Team Time Trial Route – Montpellier – July 7, 2009
This is an update of a map I made (and route I rode) a few months ago. The route is not official, other than the towns it goes through. I think it’ll be pretty close to this though.
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Mt. Ventoux and Back Again
Today I took the day off work and travelled over to Provence to see a cycling race. That was my intention at least. The reality was a little less straight forward. I bought a motorcycle last week to...
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2009 Tour de France Team Time Trial Route – Montpellier, July 7
Sorry for those of you totally not interested in the Tour de France, but I’ve been getting a few hits recently on my previous maps of the Team Time Trial route and figured I should make sure it is...
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2009 Tour de France – It’s Not About The Lance
Lance Armstrong subtitled his first book ‘it’s not about the bike’, referring to the fact that his amazing story was going to be about cancer survival. Luckily much of it WAS about the bike, therefore...
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Tour de France 2009 – Stage One – Monaco Time Trial
We left Montpellier before the sun was up and good thing, since it was a cooker today. I had planned to try and take the side roads as far as possible, but gave up around Arles and hopped on the …...
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Tour de France 2009 – Stage two – Le Rouret
Stage two saw us in the hills above the Cote d’azur, looking for a place to park. We happened upon the very cute village of Le Rouret, about 20 km east of Grasse. It turns out that the Tour de …...
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Tour de France 2009 – Stage 4 – Montpellier Team Time Trial
The day finally came and went. Hard to believe it was February the first time I figured out the route of the team time trial and rode it. I am sure I was one of the first ones, apart from … Continue...
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Grand Tours
I made mention of these Big Three in a recent post and thought maybe I should pump them a little more, in case any of you out there aren’t aware of these giant European sporting events (I don’t blame...
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The Season Ahead
One of the side effects of being a racing cyclist (no that sounds better than it really is…a ‘cyclist who does some races’) is that we don’t talk about ‘years’ anymore, but ‘seasons’. Happily, the...
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