Stage Distance: 46km Total Distance: 3193km The final day, we’d made it. Porto-Vecchio seemed a distant memory. The day started with a final bus transfer to our start point, this time a goat farm outside
Stage Distance: 143km Total Distance: 3147km Today was one of those strange days that are hard to put into words. A couple of days ago I had wanted the tour to be over, I was
Stage Distance: 118km Total Distance: 3004km Stage 19 was in my opinion the real “killer” stage of the tour with two HC climbs at the start followed by a Cat 2 and ending with two
Stage Distance: 171km Total Distance: 2886km Stage 18 was the first of three stages which Phil dubbed the “Big Lumpy Triple”. It was also the second of three stages which I think the tour organisers
Stage Distance: 31km Total Distance: 2715km Stage 17 was the final time trial of the tour and this time we set off in time trial fashion, 30 seconds apart. The day started however with a
Stage Distance: 180km Total Distance: 2684km Following our first real rest day (the previous rest day had involved most of the day on a bus) we had a reasonably easy day riding into Gap, only
Stage Distance: 245km Total Distance: 2504km Stage 15, Mont Ventoux, stuff of legends. The day I had been anticipating and dreading in equal measure. Mont Ventoux is one of the hardest climbs the tour ever
Stage Distance: 190km Total Distance: 2259km Today started with a bus transfer, which though none of us were pleased with as always, did afford us some amazing morning sunrise vistas over the mist covered fields.
Stage Distance: 176km Total Distance: 2069km Stage 13 saw us continue on from Tours to Saint-Amand-Montrond in what Phil Deeker described as a recovery ride. This is one small part of the strange world that
Stage Distance: 216km Total Distance: 1893km Stage 12 saw us start our journey across the heart of France in a route that would see us start at Fougeres in the north-west of France, cutting diagonally