As the kilometers roll by on those flat, uneventful stages of the Tour de France, the mind tends to wander. A coureur might think about dinner, or a certain podium girl, or his wife and kids back home, or just about the bed that beckons at the end of the day, so he can rest up to punish himself again on the bitumen the next day.
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