No cycling today, I'm sticking to my plan. Looking out on the sun drenched garden this morning, there is quite a breeze blowing, so I can imagine it would have been hard work out there.
Over breakfast, I caught up on yesterday's Tour de France rest day update. This is the hour show on ITV4 which runs daily from 7:00 pm. Regardless of whether you are interested in cycling or not, this is a great showcase of both this sport and the amazing French countryside. The shots of the Pyrenees, rivers and picturesque villages that the cyclists race through are fantastic. And then there are the presenters, Gary Imlach, with his dry humour, leading the show for the umpteenth year and Chris Boardman providing fascinating insights into biking technology and his knowledgeable punditry. If you've not see one of these then I highly recommend you tune in. After a couple shows of getting to know the characters you may even get hooked .. as I have!
Talking of the characters, back at the end of 2011, I was building a model scene which required a group of 1:36 scale cyclists. The reason for this is another story, however, when looking at the designs on these, I've spotted the now familiar team jerseys of: Sky, Movistar, BMC, Europcar and Omega Pharma and not only that, when checking out my original invoices, I find I have a model of Mark Cavendish riding for the Sky team and the 2011 winner, Cadel Evans!
Closing with the Tour, I see that today, the riders finish at Mont St Michel on the west coast. I was there a few years ago and it's going to be great to see it up close again in tonight highlights. As too will be the little town of Ducey which I saw highlighted on the route map and which I stopped at for lunch on my return from my holiday in France earlier in June. Roll on the Tour(s)!
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Will we be seeing the new jersey on Wednesday morning? Loving the sun here too, definitely more smiley than grumpy people!
ReplyDeleteOh had to have a change of plan. Jersey got a run out Tuesday evening :) Feel I need to incorporate it into an updated profile photo. Will work on that this week.
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