Time to Ride
Monday the riding officially began for our tour group. Gordon and I popped out for an early morning ride with Ben the anti doping guy and around 20 of his friends. http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7539365
Cycling culture in Australia is similar to what we typically do in Singapore: ride a bunch of kilometers and then go for coffee. Coffee in Australia is much better than the brew we typically get in Singapore (sorry Starbucks) and it was a nice treat to have coffee after a ride in the cool morning climates. At 8:30 we met up with the official group we were part of and started to ride back in the same direction we did on the earlier ride. The ride was very enjoyable and it was nice to meet the fellow cyclists who had come to enjoy the TDU.
Once again we had seen a number of the pro teams on training rides ahead of the start of the race tomorrow (Tuesday) which was exciting. On the way back to the Hotel we ran into....you guessed it, Lance Armstrong and Team Astana riding the streets of Adelaide. The reaction was similar to the first time we rode with Lance in that we all disbanded the group and hammered it to catch up to the team and snap a few photos. Not too bad...two days, two rides with Lance.
Astana approaching. Lance had turned off with lots of cyclists following...Gordon and I used a strategy to take a shortcut in hopes of getting a great photo of Lance and the team. We managed to get ahead however this lousy photo was all I could muster as they were flying and my thumbs were too big! The people from the tour group loved it and it was just as exciting for us too even though it was the second day of doing this.
Here We Go Again!
After the group ride was over we went for a wonderful lunch at a Greek restaurant and had a nice day in Adelaide waiting for the offical TDU race to start tomorrow.
The group ride can be seen here http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7539366