Almost here....how's the training regime going?
The first of the three Grand Tours, Tour of Italy, departs from Belfast with a team time trial from the Titanic shipyard, before a second day riding round the North, and then a third day from Armagh to Dublin centre, and then a flight to southern Italy and few weeks easy riding up through central Italian Apennines, over the Dolomites and a cruise through to Trieste on the Adriatic coast. No problems then...
Some useful links?
Overall route and maps
The understandably excited local Belfast press
and a bit more general fuss
Most of the usual pro-cycling suspects will be competing, and returning for the Tour de France Yorkshire in July.
Before all of this though there's a few 'classic' races to be had, but we can put those to another thread? Nothing else should get in the way of 3 days of professional racing in the Irish sunshine.