Friday, 18 November 2011

2012 Tour de France - The Stages

Stage No.        Type                                     Date                        Start & Finish                               Distance

P                     Prologue                               Sat 30 June              Liege > Liege                               6.1 km
1                     Plain                                     Sun 1 July                 Liege > Seraing                            198 km
2                     Plain                                     Mon 2 July                Vise > Tournai                             207 km
3                     Medium Mountains               Tues 3 July                Orchies > Boulogne-sur-Mer       197 km
4                     Plain                                     Wed 4 July                Abbeville > Rouen                       214 km
5                     Plain                                     Thurs 5 July               Rouen > Saint-Quentin                197 km
6                     Plain                                     Fri 6 July                   Epernay > Metz                           210 km
7                     Medium Mountains               Sat 7 July                  Tomblaine > La Planche des...      199 km
8                     Medium Mountains               Sun 8 July                 Belfort > Porrentruy                     154 km
9                    Individual Time-Trial              Mon 9 July               Arc-et-Senans > Besancon           38 km
10                  High Mountains                     Wed 11 July             Macon > Bellegarde-sur-Vals...    194 km
11                  High Mountains                     Thurs 12 July            Albertville > La Toussuire - Les...  140 km
12                  Medium Mountains                Fri 13 July               Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne > ...        220 km
13                  Plain                                      Sat 14 July              Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux > ...      215 km
14                  High Mountains                     Sun 15 July              Limoux > Fois                               192 km
15                  Plain                                     Mon 16 July             Samatan > Pau                              160 km
16                  High Mountains                    Wed 18 July             Pau > Bagneres-de-Luchon           197 km
17                  High Mountains                    Thurs 19 July            Bagneres-de-Luchon > Peyra...     144 km
18                  Plain                                     Fri 20 July                Blagnac > Brive-la-Gaillarde          215 km
19                  Individual Time-Trial             Sat 21 July               Bonneval > Chartres                      52 km
20                  Plain                                     Sun 22 July              Rambouillet > Paris Champs...       130 km

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Pro Cycling Manager Season 2011 Game for PC

Hello there again,

Today, I ordered the PC Game 'Pro Cycling Manager Season 2011' from Amazon.co.uk and so am expecting it on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. It is simply a Cycling version of Football Manager, you manage a Cycling Team and train up your riders and send them off to races like 'Le Tour de France', 'Giro d'Italia' and 'La Vuelta'. I am very much excited about getting it so that I can Manage a virtual Team Sky. As said in a previous blog post, I am a supporter of Team Sky.

I would like to add into this post, that I think you should play 'Mountain Bike Challenge 2009' as I got that in 2009 and have completed it at least 750 times yet I don't get bored of it. It is amazing and I have also got the 2010 and 2011 versions of it and they both are good too, I have completed them as well, a few times.

Thank you for reading. Keep the likes of Gustave Garrigou with you.

Le Tour de France 2011 Official Souvenir Pack and Programme - My review

Hello there again,

I was flicking through my Official Tour de France Programme 2011 to see what the writers predicted (even if it is 4 months since it finished). I thought that Peter Cossins' article about it being 100 years in the Alps was of much interest. The picture of Gustave Garrigou (the 1912 race leader and 1911 race winner) supporting his article was also of much interest.

My grandfather has a signed photo of Garrigou that was originally my great grandfathers, you see, my great grandfather liked cycling, and he passed his interest onto my grandfather, which he passed onto my father, which he passed onto me. And I am 13 and I cycle for at least 3 hours a day after school. The Tour Programme Cover looks like this:

And the 2011 Tour de France Official Souvenir Pack looks like this:
In the Souvenir Pack there is:


  • Tour de France Official Programme 2011
  • Tour de France Giant Stages wall chart 2011
  • Tour de France 'Tales from the Tour' book 2011
  • Tour Highlights DVD from the 2010 Tour de France
  • Tour de France Official Route Map 2011

The Souvenir Pack was £9.99p.

My New Cycling Blog

Hello there,

This is my new cycling blog and I hope you are enjoying to view it. As you can probably imagine by now, I like cycling a lot and I am a cyclist.

My favourite team is Team Sky Pro Cycling. I am a cyclist for Cambridge Cycling Club UK and I am just 13 years old.

I hope you keep visiting my blog regularly for any new posts, videos and photos that will appear. I promise I shall regularly update my blog.