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Mon, 19 Jul 2010
Looking ahead to Limousin
By Alex Greenfield - Horizon Fitness Racing Team
Packing for the Tour of Limousin has just begun… forgot how stressful it is to get everything ready for a stage race!
Looking forward to a good few days on the road with the team; a bit of banter and bike racing. I was hoping I could ease back into stage racing with a nice steady first stage, but just found out that stage 1 is epic - a 10k loop with a massive climb in each time, and then out for a bigger lap with another 2 climbs, uhooo starting to get quite worried now.
If I can just get through day 1 in the time limit, I think I will be happy and just take each day by day. If I start looking at stage 4 before stage 1, that will be the end of me - will crack big time! Just hoping I can do my best for the team. I think Helen and Sarah have got a good chance for a top 10 in GC, so anything I can do for them in the stages will be good I think!
Looking forward to it all kicking off and keeping everyone posted on how it goes. Hopefully will have WIFI at the race accommodation.
Ciao for now x
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