Day 71.
An unusual Sunday compared to what I'm used to. I woke up at 8 (as usual) and had 1 stage of Paris-Nice to catch up and 3 stages of Tirreno-Adriatico to watch. The 2 races are similar in both being early season stage races in preparation for the longer stage races later in the year. They both have some pretty long grueling climbs and some short but very steep climbs. They both have flat stages too. Yet they have been raced so differently. Paris-Nice race was won by Bradley Wiggins, the first Englishman to win since Tom Simpson in 1967, was a race that didn't offer a lot in the way of attacks by the big name riders. Bradley missed out on the yellow jersey by 2 seconds in the opening individual time trial stage and on stage 2 he took the lead by only a handful of seconds. The next 5 stages were all about Team Sky defending the lead that Wiggo had. There were no real attacks and any rider high in the General Classification (GC) was followed sharply by Team Sky or Wiggo. Comparing this to Tirreno-Adriatico, there were a lot of attacks by riders high on the GC and the jersey has changed hands a few times. Both tacticly different yet equally as exciting. I do love cycing!
The next thing on the cards for today was to watch France v England. England were clinical in attack and very very strong in defence but lacked dicipline. They gave away 7 penalties in their own half and France scored from 5 of them. Charlie Sharples yellow cards was harsh considering a French player had been warned for doing the same thing 2 minutes earlier. England were lucky to come away from Paris with a win which boosts Stuart Lancasters chances of getting the job full time.
Sam made fajitas for dinner tonight and they went down a treat! I could eat them all day if I was given a chance.
Now it is time for sleep.
Until tomorrow.
Jim
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