Sunday 13 October 2013
This must go down as one of the wettest I’ve encountered. Not a good day to be out on the bike. With the rain crashing down at 6am in the morning, decided the Sportif was not for me. Dark, wet and cold, very unappealing, so wimped out.
Managed later in the day to watch the very entertaining Paris-Tours race, won by a massive head nodding John Dekenkolb in the bunch sprint. The countryside bathed in Autumn sun looked terrific. It’s funny when the camera followed Dekenkolb over the line into the town a bit more, you wouldn’t have thought a race was on, there seemed to be no one around, just a dead quite Sunday afternoon in France.