Yippee!! is all I have to say. Keeping abreast of the daily news of la tête de course, le peloton, et la Grande Boucle may well keep me on a somewhat even keel during this (these) week(s) of extreme rural Kansas heat.
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo)
Tom Danielson (Garmin-Cervelo)
David Zabriskie (Garmin-Cervelo)
Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Cervelo)
George Hincapie (BMC Racing)
Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing)
Danny Pate (HTC-Highroad)
Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-High Road)
Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack)
Chris Horner (RadioShack)
Today's Stage 1 was from Passage du Gois to Mont des Alouettes.
Here is a glimpse of Passage du Gois:
The high tide rises across this path each day. The area is a large marshland. It's probably a good thing that someone kept notes on the tide situation this week.Mont des Alouettes is the site of three, of maybe 11 windmills once situated on the hilly site. This site was one of the battlegrounds during the French Revolution. Somehow the people-in-the-know-of-the-war used the placements of the windmills to judge the distance of the enemy. Not being a stellar student in geography or algebra, I can't expound on this detail. Please note that I mentioned "hilly", though, and I know all about hills, living in the Flint Hills.
What I know is that each of these ~220 cyclists would barely sniff at our Flint Hills as a challenge. That's what I know.
Do you want to know more, this first day of le Tour?
Le Tour de France
And tomorrow:
Les Essarts to Les Essarts (a 23-km team time trial)
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