Welcome to Le Tour Day 10 - Now to Search Out That Meme ..

Happy Monday, and welcome to Day 10 of Le Tour de France 2019. At the end of Day 9, Alaphillipe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), was still in Yellow, but the stage belonged to Daryl Impey from the Republic of South Africa (Mitchelton-Scott/Aus). With a brilliant ride, and a long break-away, it was Impey's day. Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) remains in Green, and now that we're in hills and mountains and the Polka-dot competition has been heating up, Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) is chasing the King of the Mountain, currently claiming the jersey, as he has since Day 3. Trek-Sagafredo has taken over the team competition. Today is the last day of riding before the first rest day on Tuesday. Two more riders have withdrawn from the competition. 

As we continue our ride towards the Pyrenees, today's stage is
a hilly series of climbs, moving down from the Massif Central.
Tomorrow is the first Day Off for the Tour, so I think I'll hunt
up that Meme that all of my friends have been doing.

Today the riders go from Saint-Flour to Albi as they continue towards the peaks of the Pyrenees. Here's the "official" blurb about today's stage. 

Four categorized climbs and a lumpy terrain from Saint-Flour to Albi through Rodez let people think that it’s another day for attackers before the 106th Tour de France reaches the Pyrenees. But riders awarded in Brioude, namely Julian Alaphilippe and Tim Wellens, respectively the race leader and the King of the Mountains, only considered a bunch sprint finish in Albi where Peter Sagan won at the end of a very competitive stage completely controlled by his Cannondale team in 2013 when Daryl Impey was in the yellow jersey. Alaphilippe promotes Elia Viviani for a second stage win while Wellens believes Caleb Ewan can take his first ever Tour de France win. Being from Sydney, he knows La Pérouse as a district of the city where he grew up. Jean-François Galaup de La Pérouse was born in Albi and berthed in Botany Bay in 1788, before Captain Cook. Albi has a lot of history and beauties to offer. There’ll be more after stage 10 that will precede a well-deserved rest day.

DH and I had a relaxing day, heading over to the shop to bring home boxes I had packed from my jewelry workbench, then going to the liquor and grocery stores to restock and to get a few necessities for dinner. It was hot and we were wilted. After an afternoon nap, we grilled burgers for dinner and called it an early night. 

So, it was a quiet weekend (at least Sunday), and that's not horrible. Chickie is on vacation for the next ten days so I'm working a six-day week this week (blegh)! I'm sure she'll have a great time at her family reunion, but I'll be really happy when she's back in town and back at work on the 24th. Have a wonderful Monday and I'll be back tomorrow.