Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.