Tour de Pez: Notes From A Time Trial

Roadside St. 1: It was pretty obvious to everyone sitting at the roadside on the hill up from the Monaco Casino who had won this opener ... Fabian Cancellara was waaaay, waaay faster than anyone else hurtling past us. The funny thing was that although the start/finish area was mobbed as expected, just a few hundred metres down the course, there was hardly a soul. You could have parked a couple of monster trucks beside the route and still had space for a picnic table. Lance sped by for a warm-up in Livestrong kit, just as Kenny Van Hummel was starting off the 2009 Tour de France a kilometer away and not many people were around to notice. Whereas Lance had a mission later in the day, for some of the 'others', it was a case of staying hydrated, staying safe and getting round in one piece. For Bbox Bouyges Telecom, it was a case... [read full story]                    

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