Impey’s bittersweet rest day MyZA

Daryl Impey tells us why his Tour de France rest day was bittersweet, what the team’s goals are for the week ahead and how yesterday’s sprint was.

Orica-GreenEDGE enjoys their Tour de France rest day. Photo: Daryl Impey

Most of you are probably happy to see that we are back to racing but for me the rest day just went by too fast. It started off well, ten hours of uninterrupted sleep followed by a great well earned breakfast!

Although the action had stopped on the television we made sure that we supplied you with something to watch and that was our Tribute to AC/DC music video.

It’s had an amazing response and we have all taken bets on how many hits it will get by the end of the week, my guess 1,680,000 views.

It is a great idea from the team and we all had a chance to chip in, also to show you guys that we are not just one dimensional and do actually have a personality and don’t take ourselves too seriously all the time.

The stand-out scene for me was Lancaster on the drums and our fireworks scene, pretty funny, check it out if you haven’t had the chance. Watch it here.

Our goal is pretty simple, all for Gossy on the sprints and then we’ll look at Albasini, Gerrans and myself for the lumpy days. Svein can have a good TT and we’ve always got Clarke for the breakaways. I think we will definitely see a few opportunities for us and we as a team are keen to keep our good momentum going.

Yesterday’s sprint stage was pretty straight forward, a group went and the sprinting teams controlled the day. We had our plan to position Gossy in the sprint and we did that, our plan wasn’t to lead out but to rather position him as best we could.

Everyone back home will be pleased to know that I have introduced all the guys to our famous rusks and the general feeling is that they are tasty. If you are coming to watch the Tour, bring some more please, we’ve nearly run out.

Have a great day and enjoy the TT. My money is on Tony Martin. – Daryl