Bradley Wiggins says his preparations for 2010 Tour de France which kicks off this Saturday (July 3) in Rotterdam, Holland is near-perfect, writes Covsupport News Service's Ziad Chaudry in an article for North West London Newspapers Series.
For the next three weeks the 30-year-old three-time Olympic gold medallist from Maida Vale will make a gallant attempt to take world cycling's most prized yellow jersey asset off defending Spain's Alberto Contador.
At last year's race, he successfully made the transition from being an outstanding track pursuit specialist to a complete world-class road rider by finishing fourth - equalling Robert Millar's British record in 1984.
Luxembourg's Andy Schlek came second while legendary seven-time winner Lance Armstrong, who will be heading his own Radio Shack team this year, came out of a four-year retirement spell to finish third.
And Wiggins will lead Team Sky's debut in Le Tour with fellow Brits Geraint Thomas and Steve Cummings as part of the strong nine-man outfit.
"It's been a near-perfect plan," said Wiggins, who back in January joined the newly-formed British team from US-based Team Garmin-Transitions."Everything's in place now and it's about as good as it gets in terms of physical fitness and power-to-weight ratios.
"Tied in with that the backing of the team and the eight riders I have around me for this race, it's quite exciting to think what the end product's going to be."
"I've worked hard the last two, three weeks now to drop a bit of weight and now we're into that last stage now and I'm at the Tour weight I was at last year, having remained as powerful.
"It doesn't get much better than this in terms of being in the ball park to do well in an event like the Tour de France, finishing as high up the general classification as possible.
"Whether that's winning or finishing second or third or whatever - who knows - but we'll go out there and put the process together each day."
But he knows too well that he has to perform more than his best throughout the marathon three week trek, especially in the gruelling Alpine and Pyrenées mountain stages, if he seriously wants to finish the tour ending up on the winner's podium in Champs Elysées, Paris come July 25.
You can follow Wiggins progress each day throughout on ITV4 and Eurosport.