The Vuelta a Mallorca bike race rolled through the island February 9-12. The race is a over 4 days but with no real overall winner, just 4 individual winners. The weather is great here this time of the year so we got to see many of cycling's stars on the island. At the race were Vuelta a Espana winner Chris Horner, new World Champ Rui Costa, Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins, and a whole host of other cyclist getting their legs ready for the upcoming season.
Kelly and I arrived back from Barcelona on Sunday morning, just in time to head down to the waterfront and watch the Trofeo Palma, the first race. It was a short, criterium style, race that gave the spectators plenty to see with several laps along the Paseo Maritimo, the main waterfront road in Palma.
We watched most of the race from and 'Irish' Pub along the road. There is no better way to watch a race than sitting in a chair, in the sun, with a cold Guiness in hand. As the race was winding down we wandered toward the finish where we saw Sacha Moldenado win, despite another guy raising his hands thinking he had won, whoops.
We missed Monday and Tuesday's stages in the mountains (ugh, work) but were able to take the train up to the winery filled town of Binissalem to catch part of the final stage. We found a bench in the sun and waited for the peleton to arrive. We were about 30km from the finish of the race which had split up in the mountains near the beginning. A large group was off the front, followed by the peleton, followed by several stragglers. 25 minutes on the train each way for a solid 3 minutes of race watching, Id say that math works out...
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