Three weeks day by day cycling in France, 21 stages with a total of 3,500 km, Alpine and Pyrenean passes and even the Grand Massive. It’s a fascinating and exciting even for all of us, as we can see at the audience along the route and TV. The Tour de France is after the World Cup the 2nd largest TV event in the world.

But not only the big distances of 200 km over and over again is the challenge, much more are the questions:

• how do I cope it every day,
• do I regenerate effectively and stay healthy,
• do I still recover after real exertions, big alpine passes,
  …

Details can be taken from the official website of the ASO, here the link to the German version: Le Tour de France.

The event I am participating in is callled “the Tour de Force”, which starts one week earlier, but with the same conditions, same route, same hotels, same organization, same challenges, also supported by the ASO. The whole thing is called Tour de Force and is made for amateurs like me, here is the ….

Since I have cycled now almost 4’000 km of training, including the big routes and mountains as a single rider, I appreciate and hope that it will be considerably easier in a group. My bike friend Christoph advised me urgently to always look for a rear wheel. So the long, 200km stages, then but easier and faster mastered.