“I just wanted to say thank you for all the support all the way around.
It's been a magical couple of weeks for my team and for Lounge Room cycling. Some dreams can come true, and now my old mother over there, her daughter's won the Tour de Salon!
Have a safe internet surf and don’t get too
drunk."
But
fear not, I’m not going to replicate that opera singer - sounded a bit cat-wailing-like to me – and her dress- what was that?
I heard one commentator call it “the operatic version of Geri Halliwell's famed Spice Girls outfit” – Bah!
I heard one commentator call it “the operatic version of Geri Halliwell's famed Spice Girls outfit” – Bah!
A few
concluding stats:
Hours
ridden
|
About
26 hours total
|
Distance
ridden
|
116kms
(but it was a home-set-up bike computer and they mustn’t work accurately on
exercises bikes)
|
Avg.
hours slept a night during the Tour
|
5.5 hrs
per night
|
Total
hours late for work
|
About
8.5 (across 3 weeks)
|
Number
of water bottle consumed
|
Approx.
33 litres
|
Coffee
consumed
|
Approx
21 litres
|
Body
numbing, performance enhancing alcohol consumed
|
Approx
8 litres
|
Weight
lost
|
None
|
Favourite
moment of the Tour
|
Finishing
it
|
Least
favourite moment of the Tour
|
The
lactic acid pain that kicked in through
Stages 18 & 19 |
Number
of people who have laughed at my blog
|
Over
1,109 people
From
USA, UK, Russia, NZ, Nambia, Belgium and even Brazil (who do I know in
Brazil?)
|
Funding
raised for Bicycles for Humanity
|
Close
to $200 and still taking in more @ :
|
A few
people have asked, what am I going to do next? Am I going to miss the Tour? My
response is clear - now that I've accomplished my life-long dream of riding the
Tour, I am going to get rid of that machine of torture and never do it again!
I'm
looking forward to sleeping regular hours and feeling returning to my behind.
Bon
chance in your own endeavours. Au revoir and see you at the Olympics!