Tour of California comes to Santa Cruz
Although we spent most of the weekend inside, we decided to brave the rain today to watch the Tour of California. The bike tour traveled through the Santa Cruz mountains so we decided to go watch. We parked the car on the side of the road and had front row seats to see some of the most amazing bikers in the world. After much anticipation the bikers finally made their way up the mountain and right past our car. We were within15 feet of Lance Armstrong (Eric has a picture to prove it) and many other big names in the biking world. It was very fun to be so close to the action and definitely worth the wait. Here are a few pictures from the day.
A Livestrong van drove by handing out Lance Armstrong posters and yellow chalk to decorate the road (too bad they didn't pass out any cowbells).
Here is the message we decided to write. We also wrote the names of a number of the American cyclists in the race, including two twins from Watsonville.
We were standing on Bonny Doon Road, the final climb of the day. This is a shot of Levi Leipheimer (with Brad's head under the blue hood) - he has just broken away from the main pack and is chasing a small breakaway. He would catch them before the top of the hill and end up finishing second in the stage. He built up enough time on this climb, however, to take the overall lead. It was an exciting place to be, but at the time we didn't have any information about what was actually going on. It was hard enough to try to figure out who some of the guys were.
I don't know any of these bikers but I am sure they are famous.
You can get a sense of how close we were to the action.
A Livestrong van drove by handing out Lance Armstrong posters and yellow chalk to decorate the road (too bad they didn't pass out any cowbells).
Here is the message we decided to write. We also wrote the names of a number of the American cyclists in the race, including two twins from Watsonville.
We were standing on Bonny Doon Road, the final climb of the day. This is a shot of Levi Leipheimer (with Brad's head under the blue hood) - he has just broken away from the main pack and is chasing a small breakaway. He would catch them before the top of the hill and end up finishing second in the stage. He built up enough time on this climb, however, to take the overall lead. It was an exciting place to be, but at the time we didn't have any information about what was actually going on. It was hard enough to try to figure out who some of the guys were.
I don't know any of these bikers but I am sure they are famous.
You can get a sense of how close we were to the action.
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