After picking up our race packets today, we drove the bike courses. The transition area was cool.

The drive along the long course was amazing. Kyle should have a great ride tomorrow. His bike is 115 km with plenty of climbing. My short course ride is 30 km long. There is only one climb, but it is the Alpe D'Huez, that should be more than enough for me! The road up the Alpe has twenty-one switchbacks, each one named for a Tour De France winner.

We were careful to stop for lunch today before 2:00. A bust. In the small town that we stopped in, we could only find one cafe. They had already stopped serving lunch, but offered to make us sandwiches. All sandwiches had butter, of course, and an ingredient we didn't recognize, cornichon. The waiter told us it was a small green vegetable. Hmmm. Turned out it was a pickle.

Tomorrow = Kyle's race.