[Eurotwit]

Not sure where the peloton's at. They seem to take it a bit easy down the descent.

[Ready4Freddy]

Peloton is ~4' behind the leaders on the way down, 22km descent. That's not bad, giving up only 4' on the HC climb, shows how closely they're marking any escapes.

[Ready4Freddy]

Make that 5'35" now, leaders starting up Col d'Aspin. Reports indicate that the road surfaces are in much better shape than in years past, and that the descent from Tourmalet was very fast.

[leilani]

Not sure where the peloton's at

They probably didn't get the memo that the darn stage started so early today, like me.Darn! I really wanted to see today from start to finish and they're already over Tourmalet.

[Ready4Freddy]

letour.fr noted that the time marks are a bit flaky today, they're jumping all over the place

Good news!

2:01 PM Ag2r

Is still setting tempo at the front, as the peloton reaches the base of the Col d'Aspin, 3:55 behind the leaders. Cyril Dessel is tucked in comfortably... as are Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie