The grueling bicycle race for the famous yellow jersey started on Saturday. Tour de France is cycling's most prestigious event. It is a 23-day, 21-stage race which this year runs over more than 3,500 km. During the course of the race the riders will be attempting some almost super human feats that will test their mental and physical toughness to the limit. A recent BBC documentary recently showed how grueling it is to race up the mountains while constantly faced with gusting winds and chilling rains.
The Tour de France race traverses across picturesque landscape of France and is going anticlockwise this year. It will go from the West, to the mountainous South before heading to the North and finishing off in Paris. On the way they will have climbed mountain passes of more than 2000 metres high. Anyway, back to reality, brought the kids on a 1 hour cycle ride this aftrenoon. Great fun.
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