For the past five years, the end of my July and the beginning of my August have been spent in a bit of a daze, recovering from the rollercoaster that is reporting on the men's Tour de France.
The world's biggest bike race always takes a lot out of me. I manage the news on both our site and in the weekly magazine; attempting to keep up with the bike racing, generate content ideas, drive from start to finish to start to finish, sampling a new hotel every night, all whilst trying to remain a functioning human being is quite a pull. I wrote more than 60 articles last month; the riders are on another planet, but I certainly feel like a shell of a person at the end of the Tour.
