Marion Freijsen A blog about Sports, Fitness & Health

Tour de France

I have to admit to being a huge fan. And this year it’s gotten even better – not only have we survived years of doping, spiralling out of control, but we now have Twitter! It all adds to the ability to keep track of what is going on, all afternoon/evening long.

Personally, I have always used the Tour as a great training tool. Yeah, you heard me right, training tool. I am obviously not in the same league as the guys out there battling it away over 100;s km – but I can DEFINITELY pretend!! So I put my spinning bike (or bike on rollers) up in front of the TV and peddle like mad. Climbing when they are climbing and cycling furiously as they turn steep downhill corners. One advantage – I don’t crash in corners. And no rain either, not so far anyway.

Just as well I don’t have any neighbours in sight – they might end up watching this crazy woman cycling in her living room instead of the Tour.

But you get the gist, the Tour inspires. What these guys do is beyond human capacity. And it awes me, year in year out.

Then on the tools – look at these sites for some great stuff:
http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance for live tracking on Google Maps
Twitter: follow #tdf for some live updates all day through – I am even getting updates from Australian fans that follow a different piece of time then I can!
Web: http://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTDF.html

Have fun, and GO GUYS to all the riders in the Tour itself. I bow deeply to you all.