Stuart and I are off to France a couple of months early - and that's only 2.5 weeks away now. Really looking forward to a lads week away to watch the Tour de France.
The plan is a ferry with cabin then there's 3 days of tour stages within riding distance of our accomodation base. Looks like a couple of 80 mile days and one of about 30 miles, so that'll be excellent training for L2P - it'll be the first time I've done some distance on my bike 3 days in succession.
We'll be seeing the stages that start in Lorient, Carhaix and Dinan which are in the North West. See them on the route map here.
None of these look like they're favourable for Mark Cavendish (with the finish at the seaside in Cap Frehel being the least worst), but we can still hope! It will all depend on the strength and quality of any breakaways that are created by the rolling nature of the climbs in the earlier parts of all three of these stages. If there's a decent and sustained breakaway group and Cav's not in it, then its game over. Brad Wiggins might be in for a shout though. No doubt Stuart will be giving his Union Jack cycling jersey its annual provocative outing.
On a more general point, great to see the team time trial back on the agenda - that's one of the more interesting parts of the event for me.
No doubt the weather is going to be superb!
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