4 weeks out from Ironman Canada 2006 and the unveiling of GymSkinZ Gear at Ironman!
Well I survived the weeklong training camp and even had a swimming break-through to boot! Needless to say, heading into the final 4 weeks and taper phase before Ironman has been EAGERLY awaited for quite some time! It's literally been almost 2 years since this whole "airy-fairy" dream of doing Ironman started - especially since I couldn't swim worth a damn!
In any case, looking forward to keeping in touch with everyone via my website at gymskinz.com and my newly released "You don't have to win, you just have to TRI" podcast! Check it out! - subscribe to it and listen to my follies on your iPod!
Hope everyone is having a great start to their August and I'll catch up with you soon!
Be sure to drop by www.gymskinz.com!
cheers
Tavis
Monday, July 31, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
GymSkinZ at Ironman Training Camp
GymSkinZ at Ironman Training Camp!
Hey folks!
So I'm still up here in Penticton at the halfway mark of this training camp. Suffice to say I now know what it's like to be a pro-athlete and have nothing to really worry about except training / eating / recovering / repeating. It's amazing and what your body is capable of doing (concussed or not) when you decide to push it and not have the daily chores (like work and domestic duties) to worry about - at least not as much as "normal".
The camp has consisted of early morning swims in the lake where Ironman Canada is taking place in - not the exact same course due to all the boats and pleasure-craft out there, but a good 1 mile loop incorporating one of the lengths of the actual swim route (more or less). A great way to practice what to sight off of for the race and to get used to where the sun is going to be at that time of morning and figure out what to look at when it's blinding us. Was also nice (I can't believe I'm saying this) to have a really choppy day yesterday just to practice swimming in crappy / windy / choppy conditions.
After each swim session, we've rode various parts of the bike course, discussed key points along the course to consider in terms of where it's good to drop the hammer, and where to hold back to prepare for a nasty climb. I rode about 120km yesterday with one of the other guys and did basically 2/3 of the course whilst the others skipped one of the biggest hill climbs since it wasn't part of the schedule. We're all doing the entire thing as a group and it will be a good test of nutrition and dealing with the heat (95-97 degrees or so).
I also had the pleasure and honour of doing a run with the legendary Steve King who has been the race announcer for Ironman Canada and many other prestigious races for the last 23 years. He has an uncanny ability to remember teeny weeny details of people he's met and he has been such a source of inspiration and motivation for tens of thousands of athletes over the years. He is an accomplished triathlete / and ultra-marathoner and picking up tips from him for this race was an invaluable experience. Unfortunately, he won't be announcing at this year's Ironman as he's decided to step away from this event, but I'm looking forward to him announcing for the Vancouver International Triathlon this fall as he'll likely remember some quirky thing about me and what we talked about during our run - and likely blast it over the PA as I finish that race. He is truly a gentleman and will be sorely missed by all the Ironman participants this year who have come to associate his voice to Ironman Canada for all these years.
Aside from the swim/bike/run sessions, we've had great group meetings / discussions about everything to do with the race - from nutrition, to stretching, to mental training, race strategies when things go sideways, etc etc. With 3 remaining days of the camp, I have to say I've gained a little more confidence with each session - not only on the physical side, but the mental side which is very important in these long course events. I never thought I'd EVER say this - but I'm actually looking forward to the open water swims in the morning and especially the 4km swim we're doing on Sunday. At the start of the race last Sunday, the LAST place I wanted to be was in that very same lake....
In any case, stay tuned for some exciting developments on the business side of GymSkinZ as it relates to some of the stuff I've just talked about. I have some pretty cool things planned for the rest of the year and it's got nothing to do with funny t-shirts ;) (although I like doing those too! =)
Cheers everyone and thanx for tuning in... Catch up with ya soon and please help me spread the word about GymSkinZ!
Thanx!
Tavis
Hey folks!
So I'm still up here in Penticton at the halfway mark of this training camp. Suffice to say I now know what it's like to be a pro-athlete and have nothing to really worry about except training / eating / recovering / repeating. It's amazing and what your body is capable of doing (concussed or not) when you decide to push it and not have the daily chores (like work and domestic duties) to worry about - at least not as much as "normal".
The camp has consisted of early morning swims in the lake where Ironman Canada is taking place in - not the exact same course due to all the boats and pleasure-craft out there, but a good 1 mile loop incorporating one of the lengths of the actual swim route (more or less). A great way to practice what to sight off of for the race and to get used to where the sun is going to be at that time of morning and figure out what to look at when it's blinding us. Was also nice (I can't believe I'm saying this) to have a really choppy day yesterday just to practice swimming in crappy / windy / choppy conditions.
After each swim session, we've rode various parts of the bike course, discussed key points along the course to consider in terms of where it's good to drop the hammer, and where to hold back to prepare for a nasty climb. I rode about 120km yesterday with one of the other guys and did basically 2/3 of the course whilst the others skipped one of the biggest hill climbs since it wasn't part of the schedule. We're all doing the entire thing as a group and it will be a good test of nutrition and dealing with the heat (95-97 degrees or so).
I also had the pleasure and honour of doing a run with the legendary Steve King who has been the race announcer for Ironman Canada and many other prestigious races for the last 23 years. He has an uncanny ability to remember teeny weeny details of people he's met and he has been such a source of inspiration and motivation for tens of thousands of athletes over the years. He is an accomplished triathlete / and ultra-marathoner and picking up tips from him for this race was an invaluable experience. Unfortunately, he won't be announcing at this year's Ironman as he's decided to step away from this event, but I'm looking forward to him announcing for the Vancouver International Triathlon this fall as he'll likely remember some quirky thing about me and what we talked about during our run - and likely blast it over the PA as I finish that race. He is truly a gentleman and will be sorely missed by all the Ironman participants this year who have come to associate his voice to Ironman Canada for all these years.
Aside from the swim/bike/run sessions, we've had great group meetings / discussions about everything to do with the race - from nutrition, to stretching, to mental training, race strategies when things go sideways, etc etc. With 3 remaining days of the camp, I have to say I've gained a little more confidence with each session - not only on the physical side, but the mental side which is very important in these long course events. I never thought I'd EVER say this - but I'm actually looking forward to the open water swims in the morning and especially the 4km swim we're doing on Sunday. At the start of the race last Sunday, the LAST place I wanted to be was in that very same lake....
In any case, stay tuned for some exciting developments on the business side of GymSkinZ as it relates to some of the stuff I've just talked about. I have some pretty cool things planned for the rest of the year and it's got nothing to do with funny t-shirts ;) (although I like doing those too! =)
Cheers everyone and thanx for tuning in... Catch up with ya soon and please help me spread the word about GymSkinZ!
Thanx!
Tavis
Sunday, July 16, 2006
GymSkinZ at Peach Classic Triathlon
GymSkinZ at Peach Classic Triathlon
Hey Folks!
Tav and GymSkinZ reporting from sunny and scorching Penticton BC.
So I participated in the Investors Group Peach Classic Olympic Triathlon today - note how I said "PARTICIPATED" as opposed to "RACED". Here's my report...
So I arrived here yesterday afternoon after a rough week trying to get everything squared away on the home-front, at my real job, and with GymSkinZ stuff - 5 hours of sleep in the last couple nights was definitely not a good way to start the race weekend. Upon arriving, hit the race package pickup and pre-race meeting and I knew the planets weren't in aligment when I got my race number - 333.... Hmmm, so did that mean things were only going to be HALF as evil as they should be? To add more anxiety and undue stress to the day, the first thing Steve King mentioned to start off the meeting was "Do NOT expect to do a PB on this race course!!" Oh great, that's a way to instill confidence in the 400 or so people in the room. I looked down at my race-bib in my hand and thought, well how bad could it be ? Since I usually have a pretty laid-back and positive attitude towards this kind of stuff (after all, racing is supposed to be fun right?) I thought at least the swim is gonna be flat ;)
Well, that's as positive as it got. Suffice to say I ABSOLUTELY sucked the donkey today... and that's being pretty generous. First off, I swim like a brick - I could barely swim 25 meters at this time last year and today I may as well have been towing an anchor. I knew things were gonna be bad as soon as I got in the water this morning - Despite the water conditions being absolutely fantastic, I felt TOTALLY out of my element - and I feel out of my element at the best of times when I'm in a nice warm pool where I can see a line, and I know there's a wall nearby. All I wanted to do was float around on my back and sleep, not have to swim out that little fleck on the horizon which was supposed turnaround buoy... Anyway, starting gun went, and off I went... never got into any comfortable rhymthm and basically did my own thing waaaay off to the side, but at least I made it back and didn't come out of the water last... I did that on my very first olympic tri about a year ago and I vowed I would never do that again (what kind of an idiot-stick does an olympic tri as their first attempt when they can't swim 100M?! oh yah, that was me me July 2005....) Today was damn close to that experience... Once again, noticed the number painted on my arm and realized that the dark lord and all that is evil was going to be my pace-buddy today....
In any event, I dragged my arse out of the water and high-fived my buddy for making it out alive... at least I CAN ride a bike (or so I thought - that's foreshadowing BTW) so I was happy to strap on my helmet and hop on my bike hoping to get into my happy place nice and quick. Well, the bike course may as well have been taken right out of Stage 15 of the Tour de France - just when I got my legs spinning and feeling good, I was faced with this 4km climb which could have been a Category 1 climb and felt like I was ascending from the depths of hell for crying out loud - at least I was passing people but whoever came up with the term "mildly undulating" and applied it to this course needs a good swift kick in the beets as there wasn't ANYTHING resembling a flat spot on this damn course. Things went from bad to worse when I went to take a drink and lo and behold - not my water bottle.... My buddy grabbed the wrong bottle this morning!!! The ride concoction that I use is a combination of Cytomax / Carbo-Power and dissolved E-Caps which is like the nectar of the Gods - I ended up with some watered down Gu2O mixture that I could have used as cleaning solvent for my bike. AGGGHH... So at this point, I decided I was gonna go and chase down my buddy and retrieve my water-bottle (and my buddy was out of the water 12 minutes ahead of me - yes, I am THAT slow in the water). At least I had a focus now, so I dropped the hammer and off I went. I managed to catch up just before the turnaround and as I rode up from behind I said "Hey, you notice something different about your water bottle"..... We made the exchange after some cursing and back to town I went. Of course, at this point, I had gone out WAAAAY too quick to catch up and I didn't exactly back off on the way back into town, so I would definitely pay the price on the run (if I made it.... more fore-shadowing).
Ok, so now it gets interesting.... I managed a pretty half-decent time back to town and I *would have been* in the top 25 or 30 overall for bike splits... BUT.... remember that colossal climb I mentioned at the beginning? well we obviously had to come DOWN that so I came SCREAMING into the stretch leading into transition at some gong-show speed, and as I was coming to the dismount line, I prepared to do my regular "running dismount" where I unclip my right foot, swing my leg over from behind, slow down enough to unclip my left foot at the same time and run off the bike - sound simple right?! I've done it a bazillion times, but since I was riding with the mark of Satan's half brother - it wasn't going to happen today! As I tried to unclip my left foot, my hammy decided to cramp JUST at that moment which didn't allow my foot to turn far enough to unclip, I took that first step with my left foot still attached which resulted in a cirque-du-soleil style cartwheel with a half-twist while driving my head into the 120degree concrete in a spectacular display of splintered carbon fiber and composite materials as my bike pin-wheeled into the crowd and probably killed some poor innocent spectator and his two kids.... Of course, I also took out the poor guy behind me as he didn't expect carnage while he was dismounting and ended up piling into me... As I lay there staring at that bright light which I thought for sure was the portal to heaven (I later realized it was the sun I was staring at), I swore I saw vultures circling above ready to swoop down and start pecking at my jugular, I could also kinda of hear Steve King announcing (and pronouncing my name wrong of course like he always does at every race) - "Rider 333 is down, Tavis Yeung from Vancouver has crashed coming into transition!". I recall a bunch of volunteers gathering and as I got up to assess the damage, at least was coherent enough to ass if the other guy was ok - Thankfully he had already picked himself up and was long gone into transition. My head was throbbing, I was bleeding, and everything was a nice shade of blue (which was kinda cool) and when the spectator wheeled my bike back to me from about 50 yards away, I thought to myself this sure is FUN!! Well, I figured I better suck it up and dragged myself into transition whilst overhearing volunteers and spectators yell "Are you ok?!" and "Hey man, you're bleeding!"
After about 10 minutes in transition trying to figure out how to tie my shoes (which is kinda funny since I have speedlaces), and thinking how nice it would be to just lie on my towel and go to sleep, I told myself to suck it up and headed out onto the run course concussed, bleeding, tired, generally pissed off and feeling as if a small leprechaun was standing on my shoulders with a jack-hammer. When I thought things couldn't get any worse, the run course was just as bad as the bike course - after 2 km of a nice and flat stretch out along the lake, say hello to a 3km climb complete with switchbacks all the way to the turnaround. Did I mention whoever designed this course needs a kick in the beets? Thank God coming back consisted of that downhill but I barely noticed considering my legs were like lead and I did most of the run with my eyes closed since my head was pounding and my vision was blurry and everything being blue was really tripping me out. Perhaps the only saving grace to this whole race was as I was coming down the final stretch, I managed to run down the poor guy I took out coming into transition and as I passed him, apologized again which he probably didn't appreciate too much ;) I knew it was him cuz he was about 7 feet tall and looked like a mutant smurf in blue running gear - oh wait minute, I think that might have been my weird bluish vision...
In any event, chalk this one up to a "character building" race. I now get to look forward to a weeklong training camp for the rest of this week which is gonna be interesting since all I wanna do is crawl under a rock and die.
Anyway, for all those doing Ironman Lake Placid next week, best of luck and keep your head off the pavement!
cheers and catch up with ya'all soon!
Tav@my.head.freakin.hurts.com
Hey Folks!
Tav and GymSkinZ reporting from sunny and scorching Penticton BC.
So I participated in the Investors Group Peach Classic Olympic Triathlon today - note how I said "PARTICIPATED" as opposed to "RACED". Here's my report...
So I arrived here yesterday afternoon after a rough week trying to get everything squared away on the home-front, at my real job, and with GymSkinZ stuff - 5 hours of sleep in the last couple nights was definitely not a good way to start the race weekend. Upon arriving, hit the race package pickup and pre-race meeting and I knew the planets weren't in aligment when I got my race number - 333.... Hmmm, so did that mean things were only going to be HALF as evil as they should be? To add more anxiety and undue stress to the day, the first thing Steve King mentioned to start off the meeting was "Do NOT expect to do a PB on this race course!!" Oh great, that's a way to instill confidence in the 400 or so people in the room. I looked down at my race-bib in my hand and thought, well how bad could it be ? Since I usually have a pretty laid-back and positive attitude towards this kind of stuff (after all, racing is supposed to be fun right?) I thought at least the swim is gonna be flat ;)
Well, that's as positive as it got. Suffice to say I ABSOLUTELY sucked the donkey today... and that's being pretty generous. First off, I swim like a brick - I could barely swim 25 meters at this time last year and today I may as well have been towing an anchor. I knew things were gonna be bad as soon as I got in the water this morning - Despite the water conditions being absolutely fantastic, I felt TOTALLY out of my element - and I feel out of my element at the best of times when I'm in a nice warm pool where I can see a line, and I know there's a wall nearby. All I wanted to do was float around on my back and sleep, not have to swim out that little fleck on the horizon which was supposed turnaround buoy... Anyway, starting gun went, and off I went... never got into any comfortable rhymthm and basically did my own thing waaaay off to the side, but at least I made it back and didn't come out of the water last... I did that on my very first olympic tri about a year ago and I vowed I would never do that again (what kind of an idiot-stick does an olympic tri as their first attempt when they can't swim 100M?! oh yah, that was me me July 2005....) Today was damn close to that experience... Once again, noticed the number painted on my arm and realized that the dark lord and all that is evil was going to be my pace-buddy today....
In any event, I dragged my arse out of the water and high-fived my buddy for making it out alive... at least I CAN ride a bike (or so I thought - that's foreshadowing BTW) so I was happy to strap on my helmet and hop on my bike hoping to get into my happy place nice and quick. Well, the bike course may as well have been taken right out of Stage 15 of the Tour de France - just when I got my legs spinning and feeling good, I was faced with this 4km climb which could have been a Category 1 climb and felt like I was ascending from the depths of hell for crying out loud - at least I was passing people but whoever came up with the term "mildly undulating" and applied it to this course needs a good swift kick in the beets as there wasn't ANYTHING resembling a flat spot on this damn course. Things went from bad to worse when I went to take a drink and lo and behold - not my water bottle.... My buddy grabbed the wrong bottle this morning!!! The ride concoction that I use is a combination of Cytomax / Carbo-Power and dissolved E-Caps which is like the nectar of the Gods - I ended up with some watered down Gu2O mixture that I could have used as cleaning solvent for my bike. AGGGHH... So at this point, I decided I was gonna go and chase down my buddy and retrieve my water-bottle (and my buddy was out of the water 12 minutes ahead of me - yes, I am THAT slow in the water). At least I had a focus now, so I dropped the hammer and off I went. I managed to catch up just before the turnaround and as I rode up from behind I said "Hey, you notice something different about your water bottle"..... We made the exchange after some cursing and back to town I went. Of course, at this point, I had gone out WAAAAY too quick to catch up and I didn't exactly back off on the way back into town, so I would definitely pay the price on the run (if I made it.... more fore-shadowing).
Ok, so now it gets interesting.... I managed a pretty half-decent time back to town and I *would have been* in the top 25 or 30 overall for bike splits... BUT.... remember that colossal climb I mentioned at the beginning? well we obviously had to come DOWN that so I came SCREAMING into the stretch leading into transition at some gong-show speed, and as I was coming to the dismount line, I prepared to do my regular "running dismount" where I unclip my right foot, swing my leg over from behind, slow down enough to unclip my left foot at the same time and run off the bike - sound simple right?! I've done it a bazillion times, but since I was riding with the mark of Satan's half brother - it wasn't going to happen today! As I tried to unclip my left foot, my hammy decided to cramp JUST at that moment which didn't allow my foot to turn far enough to unclip, I took that first step with my left foot still attached which resulted in a cirque-du-soleil style cartwheel with a half-twist while driving my head into the 120degree concrete in a spectacular display of splintered carbon fiber and composite materials as my bike pin-wheeled into the crowd and probably killed some poor innocent spectator and his two kids.... Of course, I also took out the poor guy behind me as he didn't expect carnage while he was dismounting and ended up piling into me... As I lay there staring at that bright light which I thought for sure was the portal to heaven (I later realized it was the sun I was staring at), I swore I saw vultures circling above ready to swoop down and start pecking at my jugular, I could also kinda of hear Steve King announcing (and pronouncing my name wrong of course like he always does at every race) - "Rider 333 is down, Tavis Yeung from Vancouver has crashed coming into transition!". I recall a bunch of volunteers gathering and as I got up to assess the damage, at least was coherent enough to ass if the other guy was ok - Thankfully he had already picked himself up and was long gone into transition. My head was throbbing, I was bleeding, and everything was a nice shade of blue (which was kinda cool) and when the spectator wheeled my bike back to me from about 50 yards away, I thought to myself this sure is FUN!! Well, I figured I better suck it up and dragged myself into transition whilst overhearing volunteers and spectators yell "Are you ok?!" and "Hey man, you're bleeding!"
After about 10 minutes in transition trying to figure out how to tie my shoes (which is kinda funny since I have speedlaces), and thinking how nice it would be to just lie on my towel and go to sleep, I told myself to suck it up and headed out onto the run course concussed, bleeding, tired, generally pissed off and feeling as if a small leprechaun was standing on my shoulders with a jack-hammer. When I thought things couldn't get any worse, the run course was just as bad as the bike course - after 2 km of a nice and flat stretch out along the lake, say hello to a 3km climb complete with switchbacks all the way to the turnaround. Did I mention whoever designed this course needs a kick in the beets? Thank God coming back consisted of that downhill but I barely noticed considering my legs were like lead and I did most of the run with my eyes closed since my head was pounding and my vision was blurry and everything being blue was really tripping me out. Perhaps the only saving grace to this whole race was as I was coming down the final stretch, I managed to run down the poor guy I took out coming into transition and as I passed him, apologized again which he probably didn't appreciate too much ;) I knew it was him cuz he was about 7 feet tall and looked like a mutant smurf in blue running gear - oh wait minute, I think that might have been my weird bluish vision...
In any event, chalk this one up to a "character building" race. I now get to look forward to a weeklong training camp for the rest of this week which is gonna be interesting since all I wanna do is crawl under a rock and die.
Anyway, for all those doing Ironman Lake Placid next week, best of luck and keep your head off the pavement!
cheers and catch up with ya'all soon!
Tav@my.head.freakin.hurts.com
Friday, July 07, 2006
GymSkinZ and Tour De France
Le Tour 2006: One of the hardest in years
By Anthony Tan, with additional reporting by Tim Maloney in Paris
GymSkinZ Corp is excited, yet deeply saddened by the developments of the 2006 Tour De France. Regardless, perhaps a couple Gag T-Shirts will lighen the mood. Here's the 2006 route.
Le Tour 2006
Photo: © ASO
On midday Thursday at Paris' Palais des Congres, the official route of the 2006 Tour de France was unveiled. A classic course according to veteran Tour experts, but also one of the hardest in recent years, the 93rd edition of La Grande Boucle follows an anti-clockwise direction around France, the 20 stages covering some 3,600 kilometres including nine flat stages, five mountain stages, four medium mountain stages and two individual time trials. Three mountain-top finishes are on offer (yes, L'Alpe d'Huez is in there!) including 22 Cat. 1, Cat. 2 and hors categorié passes, two rest days and 116 kilometres of individual time trialling.
Beginning on July 1 with a 7 kilometre prologue in Strausbourg on the French-German border, Le Tour 2006 skirts around the northern perimeter of France towards Lorient, side-stepping into Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium on the way. The first full-length individual time trial comes on Stage 7, a 52 kilometre race against the clock from Saint-Grégoire to Rennes, and the often controversial team time trial is absent this year.
A transfer to Bordeaux after Stage 8 marks the first rest day, before two difficult, back-to-back Pyréenean stages on Stages 10 and 11: 193 kilometres from Cambo-les-Bains to Pau on July 12, followed on Thursday, July 13 by a 208 kilometre stage from Tarbes to Val d'Aran-Pla-de-Beret. The usual traverse across to the Alps takes up four days including a rest day in Gap, before two brutal Alpine stages that both end in mountain-top finishes - the first finishing atop the legendary L'Alpe d'Huez, and the second a 182 kilometre journey from Bourg d'Oisans to La Toussuire.
After the finish the following day in Morzine, the peloton heads north back to Paris, but before those famous final laps on the Champs-Elysées, what could be a nail-biting time test marks the penultimate stage of the 2006 Tour: a 56 kilometre ITT from Le Creusot to Montceau-les-Mines.
Total prizemoney: €3.2 million, with €450,000 for the winner. But just who will that be?
By Anthony Tan, with additional reporting by Tim Maloney in Paris
GymSkinZ Corp is excited, yet deeply saddened by the developments of the 2006 Tour De France. Regardless, perhaps a couple Gag T-Shirts will lighen the mood. Here's the 2006 route.
Le Tour 2006
Photo: © ASO
On midday Thursday at Paris' Palais des Congres, the official route of the 2006 Tour de France was unveiled. A classic course according to veteran Tour experts, but also one of the hardest in recent years, the 93rd edition of La Grande Boucle follows an anti-clockwise direction around France, the 20 stages covering some 3,600 kilometres including nine flat stages, five mountain stages, four medium mountain stages and two individual time trials. Three mountain-top finishes are on offer (yes, L'Alpe d'Huez is in there!) including 22 Cat. 1, Cat. 2 and hors categorié passes, two rest days and 116 kilometres of individual time trialling.
Beginning on July 1 with a 7 kilometre prologue in Strausbourg on the French-German border, Le Tour 2006 skirts around the northern perimeter of France towards Lorient, side-stepping into Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium on the way. The first full-length individual time trial comes on Stage 7, a 52 kilometre race against the clock from Saint-Grégoire to Rennes, and the often controversial team time trial is absent this year.
A transfer to Bordeaux after Stage 8 marks the first rest day, before two difficult, back-to-back Pyréenean stages on Stages 10 and 11: 193 kilometres from Cambo-les-Bains to Pau on July 12, followed on Thursday, July 13 by a 208 kilometre stage from Tarbes to Val d'Aran-Pla-de-Beret. The usual traverse across to the Alps takes up four days including a rest day in Gap, before two brutal Alpine stages that both end in mountain-top finishes - the first finishing atop the legendary L'Alpe d'Huez, and the second a 182 kilometre journey from Bourg d'Oisans to La Toussuire.
After the finish the following day in Morzine, the peloton heads north back to Paris, but before those famous final laps on the Champs-Elysées, what could be a nail-biting time test marks the penultimate stage of the 2006 Tour: a 56 kilometre ITT from Le Creusot to Montceau-les-Mines.
Total prizemoney: €3.2 million, with €450,000 for the winner. But just who will that be?
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