no refuge, only glory

giro d'italia stage 20

Comfort lies behind.

All of the flat stages have come and gone. All of the quirky breakaways full of misfits hoping to make good, and all of the harmless GC processions behind them are over now. The second rest day was a short few days ago, but it may as well have been a different lifetime. 

Bodies ache, minds are pulled in opposite directions by fatigue…