TDU Stage 1 & My day

Today I woke up super late which took away our chances of making it to any KOM's or Sprint points on today's first stage. Fortunately enough we have our car and were able to get down to the finish line to see all the action on the big screen TV. There were four riders who went over the top of the KOM and had a one minute lead with 24km to go. It was so exciting standing at the finish because it was so calm and then all of a sudden security guards and police motor bikes came through and all the barriers were shut off. We managed to position ourselves 55m from the finish line and nervously watch the big TV as the break was slowly pulled in but also left dangling off the front.

After watching the exciting race unfold we headed into the TDU Tour Village in the centre of Adelaide and hung out with our favourite team Lotto Soudal and watched the mechanic Steven build Adam Hansen's brand new Ridley Helium climbing bike.

Once we had finished visiting the Tour Village we headed down to watch the final stage of the Santos Women's Tour which was a one hour criterium around Victoria Park. The same place where we watched last nights A grade crit. It was really good watching the best girls in the business battle it out for stage honours but also for overall victory and points jerseys. Unfortunately I didn't get any photos there but it was a good way to finish off the day.

It was an exciting first day of racing and I can't wait for tomorrow because it is going to be even better with a tough circuit finishing in Stirling in the Adelaide Hills Region. I'll have a brand new blog and some more videos of the race. Check out the Stage 1 finish which I shot from my GoPro hero 3.