Wednesday, July 17, 2013

L'Alpe d'Huez


We took a coach from Lyon to the top of L'Alpe d'Huez today.  We are at the top of the Alps.  It was a long, hard ride in a bus.  And we took the easy way up.  We got a glimpse of the lower part of the legendary climb the riders will do tomorrow.  Holy crap.  Riding up the intense grade, including 21 switchbacks, on a bike seems preposterous to me.  The fact that tomorrow's stage will require them to do it twice, for the first time in history, is inconceivable to me.  I can't wait to watch it.

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