Tour de France

For those who know me, you'll know that I grew up racing BMX and taking a pretty keen interest in all things cycling. As a young guy, I actually had a dream to one day ride in the Tour de France... I'm not sure why because of all the cycling disciplines, road-racing seemed the most boring!

In 2004, Eilidh & I were in Paris the day before the TDF came through for the famous final day of racing... the race down the Champs-Elysees. Really wish now that we'd been able to stay to see that!

Anyway, the past couple of years I've started watching the race each night. Makes for lots of late nights, and I'm definitely feeling it!! Watching it though....I love it!!

I love it because:
- It's not every man for himself...some riders role on the team is to make sure their team mate wins
- If a team mate falls, you'll often see the team slowing down to wait for their fallen rider
- There appears to be great comraderie
- ...and there's some spectacular scenery!!

It's a pity there's often doping scandals, because this is a brilliant sporting event, played out over 3 weeks.....3 weeks of late late nights!