Post #173977 by mrs. pineapple on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 10:42 AM

Virani - My sister and her husband live near Stuttgart, and they went 2 weekends ago to the French-German border finish. They called me when they got back, and they were drunk and beyond excited! They were at the top of the last mountain sprint, and they said it was amazing! She was trying to talk her husband into going to Paris for the finish, and they're pretty sure that can't miss this opportunity! It's kind of funny, Lance makes it look really easy and mundane. They had a NHL hockey player on OLN yesterday, and he was talking about how unbelievable these climbs are, and they make it look so easy, etc. I guess he has been on a tour, where they ride part of the ride with Davis Phinney. Mr. P and I try to calculate some of these climbs against rides we've done, and it's like, "ok, 4 times up Mt. Tam, at 20 mph????" uhhhh yeah. NO. I'm sad it's over, what will I do????