There are three big tours in the cycling calendar. The best known is the Tour De France of course and at the end of the season there is the Vuelta de España. The curtain raiser though is the Giro. It started with a Team Time Trial which is unusual and equally it has given us an early leader that is unusual, Mark Cavendish. Cavendish, generally considered to be the fastest sprinter in the World, had the team helping him and the fact he was their first member to cross the line meant he took the Maglia Rosa.
It was a surprise therefore when he lost to Pettachi in the first sprint of the Tour and he will surely look for revenge in the later stages but Petacchi took a second stage victory and the Pink Jersey on the third day. Why wasn’t Cavendish involved in the sprint today? A small consideration of a few nicely placed mountains took him out of the equation.
The Giro is a three week tour and like all tours each day has something different for various types of riders. Pettachi will lose the jersey as soon as a minor mountain stage comes along and total times are taken into account. There will be a couple of time trials for the specialists in that and the mountains will sort out the big winners although one of the favourites Van De Velde won’t be there as he fell and broke two ribs today.
Lance Armstrong is also involved and his Twitter Stream suggests he is feeling good although it may well be too much to expect him to come back and be winning at his age?
You need to put in a lot of training to even hope to get close to these guys if you have ever imagined trying to do what they make look so easy. If you have never tried some of these mountains then watching on TV it is difficult to appreciate the difficulty involved and the dedication needed to do this. The programme here will make your body get the best out of itself. If you want to emulate these guys doing over a hundred miles in a day then you may need this programme to help you get there. And make sure that you don’t get lost, know your speed, distance and everything else with this Garmin Edge Bike Monitor
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