Thursday, June 08, 2006

Are You Ready For Mont Ventoux?

OK, it isn't the Tour de France (yet), and Our Boy Lance isn't in the mix.
But today's fourth stage of the Dauphine Libere will be TdF-worthy with a 186km ride from Tain-L'Hermitage to Mont Ventoux (pictured to the left). The course runs straight down the Rhone Valley, hitting two Cat-4 speed bumps along the way, then hits the imposing Ventoux climb from the classic Bedoin side.
More truth will be told today.
Here's an interview from about this time last year with my friend Sal Ruibal of USA TODAY that mentions the Ventoux. It's a good read.

1 comment:

Granny's 30 said...

why is it that every time I hear the name Mont Ventoux, I hear the Darth Vader theme music...dum, dum, dum, dun-du-dum, dun-du-dum.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Are You Ready For Mont Ventoux?

OK, it isn't the Tour de France (yet), and Our Boy Lance isn't in the mix.
But today's fourth stage of the Dauphine Libere will be TdF-worthy with a 186km ride from Tain-L'Hermitage to Mont Ventoux (pictured to the left). The course runs straight down the Rhone Valley, hitting two Cat-4 speed bumps along the way, then hits the imposing Ventoux climb from the classic Bedoin side.
More truth will be told today.
Here's an interview from about this time last year with my friend Sal Ruibal of USA TODAY that mentions the Ventoux. It's a good read.

1 comment:

Granny's 30 said...

why is it that every time I hear the name Mont Ventoux, I hear the Darth Vader theme music...dum, dum, dum, dun-du-dum, dun-du-dum.