Break Your Limits

I was proud to say I haven’t missed a stage of the Tour De France, well, that was until last night.

Falling asleep at 40k to go, I would miss the epic battle, the chain incident and then Alberto taking the yellow jersey. I woke up to the sultry sounds of Mike Tomalarris discussing the stage albeit in a daze as to what just happened and thought, bugger, I have missed another epic stage in this years Tour De France, but what happpened. The short of it, Schleck’s chain fell off, Alberto kept climbing. Should he have waited??? Right or wrong the jury is still out, but lo and behold the epic battle in the Pyrenees will continue in ernest tonight.

A new plan of attack at Le Tour headquarters though, I will watch the tour standing up, that way if I fall asleep during the event, at least I will wake up hitting the floor!

A positive from the sleep was that I managed to make the 6am run this morning, however, the list is growing for those who are blaming the tour on ‘sleeping-in’, soon I will start naming names!

Checkout this small piece that ‘Wu-man’ found on cyclingnews.com,  quite amusing -

Top Ten Gift Ideas For Andy Schleck’s 26th Birthday*

*by Alberto Contador

1. A signed yellow jersey
2. A new groupset
3. A dream holiday to somewhere other than Curaçao
4. An apology
5. DVD highlights of stage 15 of the 2003 Tour de France, Bagnères de Bigorre – Luz-Ardiden
6. DVD highlights of stage 2 of the 2010 Tour de France, Brussels-Spa
7. The Lion King soundtrack, particularly track two – “I Just Can’t Wait To Be King”
8. A bicycle repair manual
9. A new Spanish pen-pal
10. A dog-eared copy of “How To Lose Friends And Alienate People” by Toby Young

Quote of the day

Astana directeur sportif Giuseppe Martinelli in Bagnères de Luchon: “The most important thing for me is to have a clear conscience and I have that tonight. I didn’t tell him to wait, that’s for sure…”

Good news, Alberto – you don’t even have to tell us your radio wasn’t working this time…