le Tour de France
For someone who enjoys riding, to point I enter events, I’m a pretty poor representative of a cyclist come TdF time.
The only viewing I’ve seen so far this year is the spin class last night, and whatever they have on the news. And really, I’m not usually home when the News, sport section is on – I’m out training. Ok ok, it’s not every day I’m training in the evening.
I had a Facebook chat with Richard Aitken last night (he must have been really bored in his Sydney hotel room to come knocking at my door for a “chat”) and we got talking about where you can view footage of the tour.
We were both searching and came up with a couple of possibilities. I duly sent the links off to work so I could have a look. You know, when I’m not working, which of course is during breaks.
When I had a look today, I finally saw that the live video would be from 10pm. I cringed and realised this is why I never see any of it. I’m in bed (or not far from it) at 10pm. I don’t have Sky so there’s no replays to watch.
Now I don’t feel so bad for not being wrapped up in the hype the tour generates.
Sometimes this blog is about my struggle with eating properly. I do seem to have an infatuation. But really it's more about my life, and my training. A bit of a mixed bag really.
And I thought I was the only one that wasn’t wrapped up in it all! I know nothing about it, who the teams are etc etc… a bit like rugby really, unless I know who is who, I tend to switch off. There was a wee spark of interest when Lance Armstrong came within striking distance of the lead, otherwise I find the whole thing a bit of a yawn (granted it’s self imposed, because I haven’t made the effort to learn anything about it).
Eurosport’s wesbite does a fairly brief and concise video wrap-up of each stage that you could probably watch each morning:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/
There’s also quite a few graphical elements so you can see what kind of distances they are covering and climbing on each stage.
In fact, you’ll probably find something that will suit on from what is listed here:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Follow_The_Tour_De_France_Online