Thursday, July 3, 2008

Tour de la Provence de Luxembourg Stage 2

Hi All,

Ryan has again asked me to update his blog site. He raced the second stage of the tour of the Provence of Luxembourg today. He had a good race with no mechanical problems like yesterday. The stage was 140km with one large circuit and three local circuits.

Ryan was near the front the whole day and tried to attack on the last of the local laps. Standing at the finish line we could hear his name being used over the public address system but because it was in French we didn't know what had happened. As it turned out, he had tried to attack and came close to the leaders before being swamped up to the finish. He eventually crossed in 51st place at 56 seconds. This has now lifted him up the overall standings to 30th place at 2:46. His Bodysol team are sitting 4th in the teams standings.

Todays stage was won by Logal Hutchings so it was great to see a NZ victory. Josh Brown and Matt Gorter both came in together in 91st and 92nd positions at 7:30.

Tomorrows stage is 144.2km with, again one large circuit followed by two local circuits.

Paul

1 comment:

The Mouse said...

Thanks for the update. Say hi to Josh for us and wish Ryan well. Tell them that I miss their ugly faces at the chicken farm.