Stage 5 today, first day in the mountains, unusually early in a Tour: generally, we don't hit the mountains until the second week, thus allowing lots of crashes in the nervous first week, on those boring long flat stages that are the bane of the commentators.
Well honestly, how would you like to waffle on, live, for 5 hours while nothing, nothing, happens? I know that a lot of people criticise Carlton Kirby, Rob Hatch et al but I think they do an amazing job. One year, we had a problem with the sound and all we got was pictures, so LLB and I tried to do our own commentary.
We were funny for about five minutes, then we were less funny and just talking, and after ten minutes we were both exhausted, with the effort of trying to get out the name of the rider as they came on the screen - it's not as easy as it looks, you know.
So, no long boring stage today - mountains! And an uphill finish! And I have to work all day, so I won't be able to watch it, booo!
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