Friday, July 4, 2008

Saturday - YELLOW JERSEY RIDE

Tomorrow, July 5th there will be a "Yellow Jersey Ride", in celebration of the Tour de France - beginning from S Macon Elementary School at 8am. Route will be decided tomorrow morning.

Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometers.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

  • 10 flat stages,
  • 5 mountain stages,
  • 4 medium mountain stages,
  • 2 individual time-trial stages.

Distinctive aspects of the race

  • 4 mountain finishes,
  • 2 rest days,
  • 82 kilometers of individual time-trials,
  • 17 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.
GET OUT AND RIDE!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We could ride to the waterfall on Elijay and back. That's around 30 miles.

Justin said...

That sounds good. Anyone wanna go to the top?