Women's Tour - "SPOILERS"

[MisterStan]

I was hoping to see the start, but I have to be in London for a 3 day conference/expo. May try and head up to Bury for the finish though..

 

[4F]

Booked the day off as they will be coming virtually passed my doorstep

 

[MikeonaBike]

I will be on the hill going up to the Tollemache Arms in Harrington; I have volunteered to be a 'helper'. Should be interesting seeing those girls go up that hill so much quicker than I do!

 

[User169]

Brief interview with Marianne Vos just shown on BBC1!

 

[raleighnut]

Hoping to catch them going through Enderby on stage 2

 

[jifdave]

The biggest women's race this country has seen outside of the Olympics is coming up in about 10 days, and yet no comments or threads? Surprising, as this will also be one of the biggest in Europe this season. So thoughts and predictions...?

to be fair the romandie thread started on the day of the race, so im sure it would have happened sooner or later

 

[User269]

I thought I'd watch it on TV.

 

[redflightuk]

They'll be riding through the local village on the saturday so i'll be at the pub where the second sprint line is. Or i may go to the stage finish as it's only 5miles away.

 

[cardiac case]

Since I live so close it would be rude not to make the effort and go and watch. ( Last day, stage 5 )
I quite fancy the end of the "Queen of the Mountains" section, a well known region just west of Lavenham.


Paul G

 

[TheDoctor]

Our local CTC group is doing a ride to see one of the QOM climbs, then the finish in Welwyn.
I'm certainly going to go along and watch.

Edited for spiellgn.

 

[raleighnut]

Our local CTC group is doing a ride to see one of the QOM climbs, then the finish in Welwyn.
I'm certainly going to go along and witch.

Don't cast too many spells

 

[oldroadman]

I had not heard of it until you mentioned it and had to do a look on the UCI website for the women's schedule to find out something about it. I can't imagine there will be much tv coverage - perhaps there is a feed through the website ?

But it is true that given the level of attention the Giro and Tour are getting for their trips to the UK, this race could be getting more publicity.

Might I ask if you have an involvement in the organisation of this btw ?

ITV4 an hour every day.
Answer to your question in the last sentence, yes you may ask, and no I don't.

But I'll try to be out on the route somewhere in the East Midlands bits, having a look. The routing people must have had quite a challenge to find much in the way of decent QoM climbs. Looking at the routes on the website, I suspect Digswell Hill (hardly a mountain!)just outside Welwyn will be the highest point in the race. At least it's only a few km from the finish, but from what I can remember, it's all downhill into the town.
Could be it's a case of "have sponsor, will find climbs". Rather them than me in that area!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Looking forward to watching it on TV, hopefully it grows and visits other areas in the future.

 

[TheDoctor]

Digswell Hill used to be on my commute, when I worked in Hatfield.
Alpe D'Huez it isn't. There's a harder climb about 6 miles away from me right now - going from Charlton up to Preston, which is about as character-building as you'll get in Hertfordshire.
Even so, the event is worth supporting. We need more decent races in the UK.

 

[smutchin]

I've been trying to do my bit to help raise the profile of women's racing in the forum by plugging events in the punditry thread and starting a thread on the women's road world championships, but it's hard to follow these things when media coverage is so poor. Also I've not been following much of *any* cycling lately due to having Other Things to worry about.

Anyway, good on ITV for picking it up. Looking forward to this race very much. Hope it's the start of something big.