This Year's Tour
The Tour de France this year is shaping up to be fascinating. With no real favorite, very interesting stages have taken place with some very unexpected results.
The one thing that continues to amaze me is the threshhold for pain that the riders display. Besides riding 5 hours a day, sometimes on incredibly difficult terrain, many of them do it with injuries that would leave most of us recuperating in bed.
One rider crashed on Thursday. Despite nasty cuts in both knees and a huge bruise on his tush, he finished the 130 mile stage. Moreover, he got back on his bike the next three days and completed two of the most challenging stages of the tour, deep into the Alps.
Whether or not these guys are doing 'roids, it is still amazing to behold.
The Tour de France this year is shaping up to be fascinating. With no real favorite, very interesting stages have taken place with some very unexpected results.
The one thing that continues to amaze me is the threshhold for pain that the riders display. Besides riding 5 hours a day, sometimes on incredibly difficult terrain, many of them do it with injuries that would leave most of us recuperating in bed.
One rider crashed on Thursday. Despite nasty cuts in both knees and a huge bruise on his tush, he finished the 130 mile stage. Moreover, he got back on his bike the next three days and completed two of the most challenging stages of the tour, deep into the Alps.
Whether or not these guys are doing 'roids, it is still amazing to behold.
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