A salute

I’ve had today’s stage of the Tour de France on the TV for much of the afternoon. Whether the much trumpeted clampdown on drug use has been successful, or whether the riders continue to maintain their prowess by illicit means, you still have to admire the sheer crazed endurance required, having already covered a couple of thousand kilometres in two and a half weeks, to then face a 200km day of winding through the Alps, topping climbs up to 2645m and 2067m, and then after five hours in the saddle coming face to face with this:

and still having enough left to manage to power up it in less than an hour.

While I’m sure of it’s of no consolation at all those riders currently in agony as they plough up the Alp D’Huez, I’m sat here on my backside raising a mug of tea to them in admiration.

~ by Steve on July 23, 2008.