Tyler Farrar, Tour de Georgia stage 7 Seattlepi.com profiles Wenatchee hometown hero Tyler Farrar and his preparations for the Tour de France. Tyler says he has had his eye on the French race since he was eight-years-old.

From the article:
“I’ve been riding for as long as I could remember,” Tyler said. “It was just a normal part of growing up. My parents were into it, and I got into it. Once I started going to races, I knew this is what I wanted to do.”

When Tyler was 8, the family took a vacation to France. For two weeks, they followed the Tour, hanging back in their car, going from town to town, absorbed in the atmosphere and the scale of the event.