Hunter Allen, coach of Daniel Lloyd (GBR) will do daily analysis of Daniel Lloyd's Data during this year's Tour de France. More information about Hunter and is company The Peaks Coaching Group check www.PeaksCoachingGroup.com Hunter is the co-author of the book, "Training and Racing with a Power Meter".  

Last easy day until next Friday for most of the peloton, but Daniel still had to be attentive and help Carlos as much as he could. The first 15 minutes of the stage were hard until the breakaway got away and then the pace eased up.

It was a pretty uneventful day otherwise and Daniel made sure Carlos was in the front group on the last climb and once he knew Carlos was there, he sat up and rode easy over the last climb into the finish.

235 Training Stress Score points in nearly 5 hours of racing don't quite make this the easiest stage for Daniel, but it's definitely not a hard stage.

"Not quite as hard as yesterday but still a solid day in the saddle" said Daniel Lloyd. "My task was to stay with Carlos the whole day and bring him into a good position before the final short but important climb. It was pretty fast on the run in and slight cross wind and I ended up taking him forward a couple of times. He started in a good position though and then my job was done, didn't have enough left to try and get over the climb myself."



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