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What You Missed This Morning…On The Col du Tourmalet

Instead of making my way to the Plateau de Beille today to watch the action live, I decided to take advantage of my location in Lourdes and climb the Col d'Aspin and Col du Tourmalet. After that we headed to a local pub and watched the last 2hrs of the stage. I could't think of many better ways to spend a day in France...

: The Col d’Aspin is a beautiful forested cat 1 climb that’s relatively steady. It’s been part of the Tour 66 times because of it’s linkage to the Col du Tourmalet (2115m) and the Col de Peyresourde (1569m).

: Can anyone guess which Vacansoleil Tour orphan this is?

: We approached the summit of the Col du Tourmalet from the east side (through La Mongie)

: This is the same way the riders raced on Stage 12 a few days ago. Except we did all the climbs in 2 days, they did it in 6hrs.

: To the pub for a few beers and to watch the last couple hours of an exciting stage up the Plateau de Beille

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