My Tour de France: Epilogue

What I learned and experienced, doing my own variant of Le Tour this year.

Chris Bailey

Jul 21

My Tour de France: Stage 21 — USA Underbiking Nationals

Did the US Underbiking National Championships in Bend today — videos below. And with that, now I need a good rest.

July 21, 2024

Chris Bailey

Jul 20

My Tour de France: stage 20 — hanging in there

Today’s ride was good, although not big enough, but I’m pretty knackered at…

Chris Bailey

Jul 19

My Tour de France: stage 19 — back pain & single speeding (due to AXS battery)

Today was not what I’d hoped, and certainly not in the spirit of the real Tour stage, which was awesome (the tour stage, not my back pain)! Last night I had low back pain (the usual kind I get…

Chris Bailey

Jul 18

My Tour de France: stage 18 — avoiding smoke

It was quite bad air, due to forest fire smoke, in town for much of today. So, I did a bit of an odd one and went up and did an hour up near Mt. Bachelor, and then a bit under an hour at Swampy. Not only was the air far better, but the temps were…

Chris Bailey

Jul 17

My Tour de France: stage 17 — broken bottle cage

Chris Bailey

Jul 16

My Tour de France: Stage 16

Nothing special today, definitely feeling the weekend’s efforts.

As often happens, I notice big efforts more the second day after. Legs feeling fatigued this morning. Got in a common groad route I do, for a nice two hours.