The boys are going up, again. Follow the stupidity here as they conquer 20,000 metres of hell in a week. Or not; we'll find out. September 3 - 10 2011.
Le Route. Oh.
Friday, 29 July 2011
Driver-less
July 11: Jack pulls out and can no longer be our driver, but to be fair we don't know if he ever actually committed to it. We are up the proverbial swanny without a paddle. The driver issue becomes critical - we haven't got one. The fact that we don't have a van to drive is a mere detail. I have completely lost count of the number of people going.
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What it is all about
1910: At the top of the Aubisque, Desgrange (the founder of the Tour De France) and the other officials awaited the first riders. It was Lapize who emerged first, his face a perfect rictus of agony. On the stage’s final climb and with the pain of the Tourmalet still in his legs, it was at that moment that Lapize uttered the words for which he would become famous: “Vous êtes des assassins!”
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