Stage 7

Not sure it gets very much better than this:

• Bradley Wiggins wins the Tour de France, first British rider to do so ever.
• Chris Froome is second; that has never happened before either.
• Mark Cavendish wins the final sprint stage on the Champs Elysees; in doing so he takes the record for the most sprint stages won by any rider ever.
• The sun shone all weekend.
• I managed 2 hard rides this weekend - 100 ks on Saturday and 100 miles on Sunday and don't feel I need to sleep for a week.
• Perhaps best of all, at my coffee stop today I overheard 2 non-cyclists discussing Team Sky's acheivements with an air of authority that suggested a familial love of cycling going back several generations. I strongly suspected the reality was 3 weeks maximum. Perhaps this is the breakthrough we have been waiting for and those of us who enjoy pedal power can emerge from the gutter of public opinion and ride with pride rather than being labelled as lycra-louts worthy only of derision and ASBOs? Or perhaps not quite yet...

Actually, it could get one little bit better - by Cavendish winning Olympic Gold in the Men's Road Race next weekend.

I'll be there on Box Hill to cheer him on!