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Day Ten: Final Stage In Carcassonne
May 25th, 2010
Team TIBCO before the start of the Carcassonne Stage. Rebecca Much was taken ill and unable to be in this photo.
Team TIBCO’s two month European racing campaign ends with the final stage of the Tour de l’Aude, in the beautiful city of Carcassonne.
Today’s course began with flat to rolling countryside, then climbed up and over [...] -
Day Nine: Aunat to Limoux
May 22nd, 2010
A Big Win For TIBCO
Joanne Kiesanowski gets 3rd place finish against the very best in the world.
Today’s stage exits the tiny village of Aunat on mostly down hill roads for the first several kilometers. But, don’t think today is an easy stage. The route includes a “properly savage hill climb” said one pro from another [...] -
Day Eight: Limoux to Roquefeuil
May 22nd, 2010
Huge Mountainous Day
Team TIBCO’s Emma Mackie “tentait la première offensive”. C’est vrai–Emma started the action today by launching the first attack at 23-kilometers in.
Ruth at top of climb with yesterday’s winner in “étape sept”.
Then at about 30-kilometers, a group of riders broke away with Yellow Jersey rider Emma Pooley. Our own Ruth Corset was in [...] -
Day Eight: Castelnaudary
May 21st, 2010
The View From The Team Car
A different point-of-view for today’s report: from inside the team car riding along with the Directeur Sportif and mechanic.
The pack powers through the wheat fields in “étape sept”.
We are “car 11″ in the caravan of team cars, police motorcycles and the race medical cars.
Ruth Corset suffered more bad luck again.
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Day Six: Amélie Les Bains
May 20th, 2010
Ruth Moves Up In Big Mountain Stage
Rebecca Much’s report about today’s race: “It was a hard day. You just go straight up right away from the start. It was brutal.”Brooke Miller chats with race leader Emma Pooley at the start of “étape cinq”.
“USA national team lead the race out really hard from the very start” [...] -
Day Five: Osséja
May 18th, 2010
First Big Mountain Day
“étape quatre” of the Tour de L’Aude begins and ends in the alpine village of Osséja high in the Pyrenees Mountains. This is the first of three days for the climbers in the peloton. Two giant climbs today means big gaps will certainly form. The course is a big figure-eight double loop [...] -
Day-Three: Clermont-l’Hérault
May 17th, 2010
Emma MacKie at finish of Team Time Trial
Team TIBCO Takes 5th Place in Race Against the Clock
Another time trial today just like day-one, except in this installment, the entire team takes off at once. And, just like on day-one we had the wind to deal with. Today’s stage is 34-kilometers (21-miles) beginning and finishing in [...] -
Day Four: Lézignan-Corbiéres
May 17th, 2010
Today was the first big day with some significant hill climbing. Again, the major player in today’s contest was the wind.
Discussing strategy before the race with Directeur Chris Georgas
Brooke Miller won the only bonus sprint of the day at 30-Kilometers into the race. As a result, Brooke was again today’s Red Jersey winner.
Some bad luck: [...] -
Day-Three: Rieux Minervois
May 16th, 2010
Emma Mackie Starts Breakaway. Brooke Miller goes too and gets Red Jersey
Bonjour! The riders got out onto the open roads of the Minervois wine region in the “premiere etape” of the Tour de L’Aude. We’ve got beautiful sunny, crisp weather for today’s course plus a nasty wind. Today’s stage is 117-kilometers (73-miles) beginning and finishing [...] -
Day One: Gruissan Prologue
May 14th, 2010
The Individual Time Trial: Your own personal pain-fest
Hello from the quaint seaside town of Gruissan, home of the first race of the Tour de L’Aude. A dark cloudy sky with light sprinkles gave way to mostly sunny and challenging windy conditions.
Today’s event was an individual time trial. This is where riders are set off onto [...]
