Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco

So Monday morning was our last in San Sebastian and we spent the morning walking to the top of the hill neaer the beaches and were treated to an amazing view. We then headed off to try to find the last climb on of the first stage of teh vuelta ciclista al pais vasco or tour of the basque country. It was amazing the coincidental events that happened to be going on in the San Sebastian area while we where there and everyone thought this would be a good one to check out. I guess it was meant to be becuase we acidentaly stumbled upon the course and were able to stake out a spot on the final cat. 2 climb before the decent into the finish about an hour before the riders where expected to arrive. Unfotunatly it was raining, but spirits where high, its not everday I get to see my favorite riders in action. So there we were as first a rider from a spanish continental team went by off the front with a small gap followed by a lead group led by Saunier Duval and we could see Tour winner Alberto Contadoe and Cadel Evans near the front. The power is absolutely amazing and those were the only 2 I could identify before they were gone, and this was on a big climb! We were then able to watch the slower groups come through getting a great look at American Chris Horner and Luxembourger Frank Schleck (at least thats what we thought and yelled at the time, however upon reading some articles after it was actually his brother Andy, hopefully we aren't the first to make this mistake). So it was just to cool, what a trip this has been! We then headed back across Spain to our "home" in Girona. So I'm starting to catch you all up here, the most recent news is that I met Myles at the airport today (he is now asleep and trying to dejetlag) so its shaping up to be a fun last 10 days with trips planned to Barcelona and out to the coast. Hope to keep you all posted!

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