Tour Stage 10: All Kinds of Pain

As the various small groups of athletes of the Tour started the final climb of the most grueling of stages these guys had been up and over six categorized climbs and at this point over a hundred and fifty kilometers of rain soaked narrow twisted roads.  This is the group that was the second on the road, the one that the Maillot Jaune was tangling on the tail end of, and held some of the other names that may now have a chance to climb onto the podium in Paris.  Seemingly to have been hiding for ten days, the camera found the National Champion of Luxemburg, Frank Schleck (Trek Factory Racing) riding pedal stroke to pedal stroke with the World Road Champion, Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) and his teammate, Chris Horner, along with Christophe Riblon (AG2R) amongst others.  Everyone of them harboring dreams of being the first to summit the climb and claim the stage victory.  This is a small original watercolor and ink painting that is available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  It will be the next page in my soon to be self published, "Book de Tour", a complete collection of my paintings and writings on the 101st Tour de France.  To learn more about the book project, to pre-order your own copy, or to discover how you can be part of bring this wide open Tour to print, please visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1335072134/book-de-tour.  There are some excellent rewards for those who choose to back the project at a wide variety of levels of participation.  Most include an artist signed copy of the book, some with original artwork starting for as little as $5 USD.  International shipping is available at all levels of support.  If you would rather simply purchase this particular painting, just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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