Ole! Or whatever they say in Colombia. Today\’s stage winner is : Nairo Quintana!  I\’m glad to see him win a stage. Think he\’ll win the yellow some day?

I guess the riders are quite worn out by now — how on earth do they recover overnight after such exertion? And race again the next day? — but it\’s nearing an end. After all, today was Stage 18. Two more days in the mountains — don\’t your legs and lungs ache to think of it? And then, on to Paris.

Who will wear yellow in the City of Light? If things keep on the way they have, it looks like Alaphillipe will take the honors. He still has a 90-second lead. We\’ll see how it turns out!

With three days of  TdF left, there\’s more than a lot of pedaling to still to do. There\’a also a lot of eating left to do!  I\’ve read in more than one source that, for racers in a multi-day tour, eating gets to feel more like force-feeding than anything else.

That doesn\’t sound like fun.  It\’s more than simply keeping the calories coming in. Some types of foods go down better early in a stage; others are better consumed later in the day as flavor fatigue sets in along with the legs.

I\’m glad I don\’t have to do it. To those who can manage it, I say Ole!