By Heidi Swift - July 2nd, 2009 Editor's Note: Follow all the action from the 2009 Tour de France this July as GreatOutdoors.com correspondent Heidi Swift documents the race and provides daily commentary. Focusing on Team Columbia, and it’s rising star Mark Cavendish Heidi will provide a real world overview of the action, the strategy, and the scene. Even if you’re new to bicycle racing, Heidi will make sense of it all. Heidi Swift is a freelance writer and photographer (and sometimes-bike-racer) from Portland, Oregon and now writes a twice-monthly cycling column for the Oregonian, where she documents her two-wheeled adventures for the reading public. When she's not on her bike or dreaming about the upcoming cyclocross season, you'll find Heidi chasing professional cyclists around the country. Her work has appeared in...
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