As I said in yesterday's column - which I wrote on Friday - I didn't expect much from the weekend's stages and yesterday was another "rest day." Was I wrong! Both Saturday and Sunday had their exciting points, highlighting the importance of strategy and tactics. Although I hadn't planned to post them, I was blogging …
Friday's stage promised to be a big stage for a number of strategic reasons: Leaving aside everything else, it was the kind of road profile – a short stage (less than half the length of the usual stage) with an early intermediate sprint, followed by three Category 1 mountains and a downhill finish through the …
Continue reading TDF Stage 13: Bastille Day – Saint-Girons to Foix
133 miles, 15,000 feet of climbing starting with a category 4 climb, the intermediate sprint, then a category 2 mountain, a cat 1, HC, cat 1, and finishing on a cat 2 that includes a 20% gradient in the last 400 meters. Clouds and mist on the way up, wet roads on the way down, …
126.4 miles Another sprint stage – flat but there is a category 4 climb just past the intermediate sprint. The roads here are long, straight, and flat – which makes it difficult for a break to get away. Another tricky finish, with a series of roundabouts, speed bumps, and some tight turns. That said, at …
Monday Yesterday was a “rest day” in the Tour de France. I put that in quotes because, although they weren’t riding a stage Monday, on Sunday night they flew to Perigueux, and yesterday they would hardly lay about and binge watch reality TV (well, maybe Taylor Phinney, who seems a little Bill and Ted). Most …
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