Prologue

For those of you that don't a prologue is a short fast time trial that usually starts most cycling stage races, the one for the Haute Route was 9km long and ran along the coast of Lake Geneva.

I got to the race village first thing in the morning with my bike box and empty suitcase which I unpacked at the hotel in preparation to re pack it all into my "official" Haute route suitcase which I would use for the rest of the week. I then put my bike together and got it checked at the mandatory bike check desk then went and collected my race number, back pack, official suitcase and all the other info I needed for the rest of the week such as hotels start times, etc,etc, by the time I had sorted that out it was nearly time to report to the start ramp, I was nervous but just wanted to get going and find my legs, my time was ok and a little bit quicker than I had estimated so I was fairly happy but the real fun would start tomorrow!