Stage 3: St Malo – Nantes

The race headed slightly inland today, away from Brittany into the Vendee region.  At 2k from the start a group of four riders broke away from the peloton and stayed away all day.  In the break were William Frischkorn from Boulder, Colorado on the Garmin/Chipotle team, Romain Feilleu from AGR, Paolo Longo Borghini, and Samuel Dumoulin.  It was a very flat stage, 208k and raining most of the day.  Some protesters tried to use the race to get attention for their cause, but the race managed to continue around them.  Samuel Dumoulin won the stage and Feilleu is now in the yellow jersey.  Tomorrow is a time trial so it will be interesting to see what happens.