The weekend in cycling.

In the Dauphine Libere (the last major race used for final polishing before the TdF) finished up on sunday. Lance finished 4th overall, but took 3rd on the final stage behind two Discovery channel teamates, George Hincapie and Yaroslav Popovych, who finished 1st and 2nd respectively. It looks like Lance's TdF training schedule is right on track.

In the Tour de Swiss, Lance's major competitor; Jan Ullrich, won the time trial stage. Things are shaping up for a huge battle at the TdF between Lance and Jan, not to mention what will most likely be a strong showing by the Americans, Floyd Landis and Levi Leipheimer.

Locally, I did a 70 mile GCC group ride on sunday. Twenty-one cyclists started the A-group ride on the hot and humid morning. After the rest stop the pace picked up with a light rotation followed by attacks by Danny M. and Naked Ed. Twenty miles of attacking and rotation brought us back to Gainesville as we all began to tactically prepare for the sprint. I blatently marked the wheel of Huang, who usually finds himself in the mix for the sprint. With a couple of good lead-outs from others up front Huang finally jumped at about 150 meters and I waited until we were about 75 meters to the line when I started to move around him in the wind. A very close call, but I got him at the line by mere inches...Good job me!