At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me.
It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.
On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.
The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.
I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.
I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.
At some point, they must do a 'Borgen' tour in Copenhagen. Like the 'Sex and the City' tour, but on bicycles.
