Despite very good intentions, I only managed to get in a couple of posts this time around in the Tour of California.
Besides my Tour duties and keeping up with my Ibis work, there have not been a lot of spare moments.
We did manage to raise nearly $9,000 to fight cancer and got Bob Roll to shave his head on air. That was pretty cool.
The Amgen Tour of California is an amazing event. We have 1000 staff (with one mullet but no turbans spotted among staff) and there are also 1000 media traveling with us. There are over 8000 room nights to coordinate with just the staff, not to mention all the media and fans following the race. There were 80 special road permits needed to get through various municipalities, and we have over 200 vehicles.
The TV show goes to 201 countries, over 90 of them live on a daily basis. and it’s piped into 200 million households.
At one press conference a journalist who has covered the Tour de France a number of times exclaimed after reading the Technical Guide, “this thing is better organized than the Tour de France”.

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