Christine and I got an early start and arrived at the Prologue course by 11AM. At the time, there were a lot of people there, but there was still some space up against the race course. It wasn't a very exciting day. We just had to hang there and wait until the racers started, one by one, at 3PM. At around 1PM the Tour publicity caravan drove through tossing out goodies. Since they start at the beginning of the 8km course and we were at the finish, I think they had already pitched most of their goodies by the time they got to us.
We watched about the first half of the racers go, and then we decided we had enough of getting crammed into the barriers and walked around to catch some of the other action around the course. We walked by the team buses and saw some of the top riders warming up. It's odd to be able to stand 10 feet away from a pro athlete like that while there warming up. Then we walked further around the course stopping occasionally to check out one of the several giant TV screens they had set up in the parks.
Fabian Cancellara blew everyone else away and won by 13 seconds.
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