Womens Tour: Stage One
Women’s Tour of Britain – Stage One
La Fuga’s John Deering is embedded with the crack US / Canadian squad Optum-Kelly for the duration of the Women’s Tour to provide the team support.
Yesterday’s first stage was a brisk 94kms from Oundle to Northampton. Shooting along closed roads between leafy hedgerows and yellow fields of rapeseed, there are cycling fans scattered willy-nilly across the Northamptonshire countryside. Every gateway features a parked car with accompanying picnic chairs and expectant smiley people. Every school has abandoned the national curriculum to turf out a million happy yelling pupils on to the roadside. And despite it being still definitely morning, the many pubs that populate the little villages along the pretty route are doing a roaring trade. (more…)
