Tour de France 2013 Results; Stage 5 Enjoy every pedal-stroke, but realise that your career - and life - has changed. Getting the yellow jersey changed my life ... and it will certainly change his. Australian cycling legend Phil Anderson That was the most important piece of advice from Australian cycling legend Phil Anderson to his protege, Simon Gerrans, who retained the leader's yellow jersey in the 2013 Tour de France after a 15th place finish in the fifth stage from Cagnes-sur-Mer to Marseille. Simon Gerrans of Australia and Orica GreenEDGE is congratulated on the podium after retaining the yellow jersey following stage five of the 2013 Tour de France. On a day in which British champion Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) outsprinted his rivals in a bunch sprint to claim the stage victory, Victorian rider Gerrans (Orica-GreenEDGE) rode strongly to retain his overall lead - albeit, on the same time - from teammates Daryl Impey, of South Africa, and Michael Albasini, of Switzerland. Poland's Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) is fourth and Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) fifth, both just one second behind Gerrans. Anderson, a five-time top-10 finisher in the Tour - including two fifth places - became the first Australian to ever wear the yellow jersey, in 1981. He wore it for one day, then in 1982 he took it again, for nine days. With Gerrans, six Australians have now worn it. Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), of Great Britain, celebrates winning stage five of the 2013 Tour de France, a 228.5km road stage from Cagnes-sur-mer to Marseille. Anderson was in Marseille for the finish of Wednesday's fifth stage of the Tour that was anything but flat and marred by a nasty crash in the final stretch. Anderson, who introduced a 17-year-old Gerrans to cycling as a form of rehabilitation from a knee injury sustained in a motocross accident, was thrilled to see his protege survive his first day in the yellow jersey. Asked if he expected Gerrans would become the racer he now is when he first lent him a bike to ride, Anderson told Fairfax Media: "Absolutely not. With every result he gets, I am surprised. He is a smart kid, reads the race well, doesn't do a tap of work he doesn't need to. I am so happy for him. Anderson was equally as impressed with how Orica-GreenEDGE raced after their collective effort in setting up Gerrans for his stage three win at Calvi on Corsica. "I thought they would just go out on the tear after Gerro's stage win," Anderson joked. But obviously they were fully focused and the team realised they could take the jersey. They have the world's best teams here. Everyone is firing and to follow up with that team time trial win is fantastic. Pressed on what advice he would give Gerrans were he to ask as he continues to lead the Tour, Anderson said: "Just enjoy it... [With the jersey] you can be too busy thinking about your result and not enjoying the moment. Getting the yellow jersey changed my life... and it will certainly change his. As Orica-GreenEDGE now turns its attention to defending Gerrans' yellow jersey for another day in Thursday's sixth stage to Montpellier, the team's head sports director Matt White warned of strong winds that traditionally blow off the Mediterranean, threatening to split the peloton into parts. White will deploy former Tour green jersey champion Robbie McEwen and recently retired New Zealand professional Julian Dean - an excellent lead-out rider in his day - to various vantage points on the route to report back on weather and wind conditions that could affect the race. In this part of France you have to pay attention to the wind. Position is crucial, obviously at certain moments when the wind changes direction," White said. For us it'll be about looking after Gerrans as much as possible, so he doesn't have to put his face in the wind, and being attentive all day. White said Wednesday's defence of Gerrans' lead went to plan, although the team had hoped sprinter Matt Goss would be up for the sprint finish. But he and German sprinter Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) were dropped on the last of four categorised climbs, the Col de la Gineste, inside the last 15 kilometres. "He just said his lights went out, that he had a bad moment on the climb," White said of Goss, who finished 169th, in a group of 32 at 10 minutes, 8 seconds. Cavendish's first stage victory for this 100th Tour came after he outsprinted Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) and Slovakian Peter Sagan (Cannondale) to take the victory.