Tour of California

Last year at this time, the Tour of California was in full swing. I was in Sacramento for the prologue and the start of the first stage. It was Lance Armstrong's return to racing in the US since he came out of retirement and it seemed that every Bay Area cyclist came out to see him.

I was taking pictures of each rider as they passed, when suddenly I realized that my camera battery was dying. With 12 riders to go, all of the big names hadn't passed our way yet, I didn't have time to run back to the hotel and grab another battery, so my photos stopped with Carlos Sastre, the winner of the Tour de France in 2008.

Here's what I got from the day