VERY interesting race today. Battle between the Americans. You’ve probably read all about it in the news, so I won’t go into detail here. George Hincapie missed taking over the race lead by just a few seconds, and the blame has been thrown around amongst the American teams. Joel tried to get as much information as he could, including even texting David Zabriskie of Garmin-Slipstream team, but to no avail. One thing is for sure – there will be a lot of explaining to do tomorrow from each team and manager.
Apparently, the Swiss have been lobbying the ASO for the Tour to finish on Verbier for 19 years now, and they’ve finally gotten their wish. Although it was getting dark, the drive into Switzerland tonight was still beautiful. You could tell where you were, once across the non-descript border, from the beautiful rolling countryside. And thousands of Swiss flags.
Driving up the climb to Verbier tonight was reminiscent of Alpe d’Huez, what with the multiple switchbacks and partying schloogs at every turn. It’s about time this Tour kicked it up a notch. Arcalis was pretty weak, as far as schloog-hood goes. Opting to stay away from the crowds for the night, we descended upon the bar in the lobby for a little bit of the region’s local vino. Since we were split among at least 4 different hotels tonight, I found myself mixed with some people I don’t normally interact with during the course of the day, including our British uplink guys, Brian & John. (We almost never see them, because their hours are so different.) Don’t take it as a sign that I’m getting wary of my car, because I’m far from that. I still get a kick out of entertaining them with my multiple impressions (who knew?). It gets us through the car rides.
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