Stage 1- Geneva to Megeve

The alarm went of at 5am which was pretty irrelevant as I hadn't gotten much sleep and was awake from 3am, this has always been the same for me before big events, I get nervous and I can't sleep.

Down to breakfast and forced myself to eat as much as possible as keeping fuelled is a key element to this whole week, I rode the 2km to the start line and the weather looked like it was going to be ok! We went in a neutralised convoy out of Geneva for 23km before the actual event timing started then we were off! the first Col of the day came at 48k; the Columbiere, 15km at an average gradient of 7.2%

I felt ok and my plan was to cycle well within myself and not go into the red for the first 3 days which I managed on the Colombiere, next up the Croix Fry which was a little tougher, 12km @8%, then finally the Col D'Aravis a 6km climb at 6%, after the descent of the Aravis there was a nasty little 15km drag into Megeve and then I was done! It was nice to get the first one under the belt and although I wasn't as quick as I could be I had not gotten carried away and stuck to my plan, I felt pretty good so all in all a good start to the week!