Deja vu

I take an indoor cycling class twice at week at Endurance PTC in San Francisco. Today when I clicked into my pedals to begin class, I saw they had up on the overhead screen a replay of an old Tour de France stage. You could tell it was "relatively" old because only a handful of riders in the peloton were wearing helmets. As the ride went on, the French countryside started to look very familiar. Almost as if I had been there before. It turns out I had -- this was Stage 12 of the 2001 Tour, from Perpignan to Ax Les Thermes. En route, the stage went over the cols on the Plateau du Sault (Cols du Coudons, Sept Freres and Chioula), the same road our group had ridden on in the reverse direction this summer. Very cool.