I’m traveling home today with a very long layover in Detroit, so it was a good time to post a wrap up of the France trip. I rode 7 days straight, and climbed over 37,000 feet during that time. Total mileage was just under 200 miles.

I had 2 days during the week that I felt awful. But I pushed through and on Thursday, when I climbed over 5,000 feet, I finally started to feel like I had before pneumonia and my Achilles injury. It feels so good not to gasp for air at the slightest physical activity!

Friday was a fun day watching the Tour de France riders pass by our village. We rode down the super steep driveway and watched the Tour caravan, then waited for the cyclists to come by. We then rode into town for a beer to watch the rest of the race at a bar in town. It is hard to describe how fun and interesting it is to watch the race in France with cycling fans from all over the world.

Here is a link to video I took of the “Sky Train” passing by on the road below the village we were staying in: Video of Tour cyclists passing by

While I did not stick to a strict ketogenic diet this week (the bread in France is just too good to pass up), I look forward to getting home and getting back on track with it. The nice thing about being fat-adapted is your body will go back to fat burning once you get back to a ketogenic diet. It will hurt for a few days, but I’ll get there…