Stage 10: Mâcon to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine. Yea! The tour is coming through. Le Tour de France bring lots of excitement and caravans of followers. This year, le tour is passing closest to us in Bellegarde, just a 20 minute train ride from Russin. I arrived at the station and followed yellow streamers and shirts to the course where I met up with friends who had driven in early to stake a perfect watch-point 200 meters from the finish line. I joined them for an afternoon of catching candy and goodies from the caravan of sponsors, and waited for the rush of excitement as the riders approached the finish of their first mountain stage.
