I found a website about Miguel Indurain - which might be of interest to other Indurain fans on the Forum.
This is the address : www.miguelindurain.es
Here a a few of Indurains thoughts on some of the famous TDF climbs where he won (English translation is patchy).
CAUTERETS. In this ski resort, located in the Pyrenees, closely together of the border with Huesca, I obtained my first victory in the Tour of France. It was in 1989, my fifth year in the test, in the heat of work for the leader of the equipment and winner of the previous edition, little Perico. I jumped to do of bridge next to a group of escaped. I put a rate strong, that little by little went leaving back to the rest of the escaped ones, and I was only when arriving at Goal. The triumph allowed me to be conscious of the mountain possibilities, since to date they considered specialist me in race against the clock and my work in the level one was only valued.
LUZ ARDIDEN. A year after the victory in Cauterets, in 1990, arrived the triumph in Luz Ardiden. In the Col de Aspin it had attacked Chiapucci, but Lejarreta, Lemond, that gambled the general of the Tour, and I we reached to him in the first inclines of Luz Ardiden. Shortly after Lejarreta remained and I attacked 500 meters for the summit and gain the victory. He was very special, because public Spanish in a top was much in which previously Perico and Lale Cubino had won. I was not a climber, but I realized there of which she could be with the best ones in the mountain.
TOURMALET. It is a port that I have often raised, but always I will remember the stage in which I was able to get dressed for the first time maillot yellow in the Tour. It was in 1991, a year in which Lemond started off like great favorite. At the summit I arrived together Chiappucci, Lemond, Bugno, Mottet, Hampsten and. From I escaped there in solitaire in a reduction in which later Chiappucci was united to me. We arrived together at goal, he was able to the triumph of stage and I to release maillot of which he would not take off to me until Paris.
Les ARCS. The winter sports resort of Them Arcs is not an excessively hard port, but it is a summit that always will be united to my participation in the Tour, because it marked the limit of my forces. It was in 1996, in a stage in which it found me well up to six kilometers before the goal. In fact it was thinking about attacking then. But in a change of rate of the group I remained blocked and I began to feel the very heavy legs. In the 5 last kilometers I as opposed to lost 3 minutes Riis, a difference that I could not reduce.