Tour de France stage 19: Roanne>Montlucon with Ryder Hesjedal

Author: admin

25 Jul

Location:
Loire, Puy de Dome & Allier, France

Overview:
Team Garmin-Chipotle riders are recording the stages of the 2008 Tour de France with their Garmin Edge 705s for all you data hungry fans out there. Each day we will feature one rider and his data.

Today’s 165.5 km flat to rolling stage 19 is made for the sprinters. There’s one category 3 and and one category 4 climb and a rolling to downhill finish in to Montlucon.

A quite day for the peloton, stage 19 rolled out under hot, sunny skies in Central France. Canadian Ryder Hesjedal rolled in with the main field in 81st place and just over a minute behind the stage winners.