Tour De France

Don’t turn me off if you wonder why I would be talking about Tour De France. Even if you don’t care anything about the sport of bike racing you have to watch it for the beauty of the scenery.

I love mountains and the once they are showing during the race are so spectacular. I would just like to sit down on the soft grass leaning against a tree and enjoy the Mountain View with a bottle of red wine, and I don't even drink.

The part the really gets me is they are racing up these mountains. I walk a lot but I can’t imagine walking that mountain let alone racing a bike up them.

Now back to the beautiful scenery and the guys covering the race. It is like taking a history course when they start telling you about the towns, church sand the old structures you seeing.

You could forget about the race and just watch all the b wonderful sights and watching the Tour De France would be worth your while.

However, when you think of the fitness of the riders to take the punishment of the race is beyond my comprehension. The day after day riding at speeds I couldn’t reach on a bike when I was kid. It is truly amazing to me.

Now the story get better a friend of mine is going to be in the race. Not as racer but as a follower. I have no ideas what that is but is going to do it. His wife surprises him and entered him to four days of the event and one of the sections he is going to be in is in the thirteen mile mountain section which is all up hilled. By the way he bought a lower gear for his bike.

He rides all the time, but in Florida the longest and steepest hills are over passes. My heart goes out to him.

I do know other bake race. John my neighbor just won the iron man in Brazil. He said he had to problems the weather, because it was in the mid fifties and that is not Florida weather. His second problem was the swim. He told me that he had to swim the whole race into the current. Even with these problems he won his age bracket. By the way he is seventy three. In October he will be in the Kona Coast Hawaiian Iron Man. You know something he more that likely will win.

One last bike story and that is about my son Skip. He just likes to ride as fast and far as he can and press his body to the boundaries of total exhaustion. Deb, his wife, and Micki, his mother, are hoping and praying for the day he decides to play more golf.

The race is not only very physically but as so many technical part to make for a winning team. But for me I am enjoying the scenery.

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