Tuesday (8-23)My tuesday ride was cut short due to inclement weather. There was lightning all over, but the final straw was the strike that cracked just above our heads (i looked at my computer and instead of average speed is just read "TURN AROUND") I know many of you are going to want to give me s**t for turning around and heading home shortly after the ride started. To those of you let me just respond like this:
To those of you who were on the ride... you should hve a little more value for your own lives. If you were smart, you would've turned around and followed me to safety. Bottom line: yer all CRAZY!
To those of you not on the ride...you weren't even out there at all so shhhhhhh.
Anthony, Mike and myself rode home and called it a day. Anyway, I had a dozen things I could be doing instead of being electricuted.
In other news...
� Levi Leipheimer held on to his lead in the Tour of Germany to take the final yellow jersey. Jan Ulrich once again placed 2nd to an American, but he did win the penultimate stage (TT) convincingly.
� The Discovery Channel team has announced its roster for the Vuelta a Espana which starts Saturday, August 27 in Grenada and finishes Sunday, September 18 in Madrid. The team, which has won both grand tours this year, will field Jose Azevedo, Michael Barry, Manuel Beltran, Tom Danielson, Stijn Devolder, Leif Hoste, Benoit Joachim, Benjamin Noval, and Max van Heeswisjk.
I'm jealous that Anthony will be in Spain for a portion of the race, but I hope he has a good time and gets some great pics.
� Tyler Farrar has achieved his goal of securing a ProTour contract for 2006 with the news that he will line out it the colours of the Cofidis squad next season. Farrar is seen as one of the most promising young US riders, with a stage win in last year's Tour de L'Avenir to his credit, as well as national under 23 titles in the 2004 criterium and time trial championships. Tyler has also just won the US Pro Criterium championships last weekend in Chicago.
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This message is for the 11 brave riders ( oops 8 ) participating in this evening's A-Ride from the Chevron Station.
Tuesday evening's GCC Ride from the Chevron Station was one you dream about when the season starts. This is what you train for. This is why you wake up in the morning. Early on in the ride we were driven to the West by an on coming storm. When God applauded the brave, the men and the boys were separated and the boys turned around (boys, you know who you are!)and homeward bound! (It gave our A-blogmaster a chance to catch up and bring his website up to date). As for the 8 remaining real men (one of the men was a woman) ( you all know who you are too ),we had the ride of the season. Nice sunny skies ahead in the West, with dark skies over a distant Gainesville far behind us. On the way back to town, nothing but beautiful weather with a nice chill in the face. Millhopper Road was nice and dry for the sprint of the season. And no blog master to report on the exploits of blogmaster's rivals. We are not giving you SHIT blog master, you clearly had not recovered from your Sunday ride during which your heart rate monitor signaled your heart rate at 400!!! Could your writing career as well as your riding career be in jeopardy???All the names of the individuals involved are omitted for their protection. All names are known by the author of this message.
See you Sunday Blog Master. Hopefully the weather will be as nice and refreshing as tonight. Lambert
As I drove home the other night and saw the lightening over the area of your usual ride, I must say I was VERY happy to see you at the house...lightening is a very dangerous force of nature.
YEAH!
so no more giving me crap...cause my wife says so!
Ya Know......
I wasn't going to say anything until your wife (who as obviously bribed to write such a comment) wrote to support your decision to turn around.
I have to agree with Lambert, it was one of those epic rides that you read about, where you have an out of body experience. You know (well maybe not, you went home) where the bike and the rider become one, to use a phrase from the 7 time Tour winner Lance Armstrong "My bike has no chain..". It was truly a ride to remember I was glad to share this moment with some of the "True" Tues. Thurs. riders.
See you guys Sunday!!!
Scott
scott,
should we call you a True Tues rider since you didn't make it to the thurrs ride that was filled cool and damp and without all the damn voltage in the air.
Trust me I knew that was coming when I decided not ride last night :-) I had to really convince myself not to ride last night, I kept thinking I'm going get a ration of Sh%* for this. But go ahead, if I can dish it out I better be able to take it(I have turned the other cheek, and it's not the cheek you are thinking of!)
Scott
Your humble Tues. night rider.
p.s.
Did anybody watch the Larry King interview with Lance last night? I saw it and it was more of a PR show than an interview, they obviously screened the calls as ALL of them were positve. Not that I expected anything different. Bob Costas did ask some decent questions. The best question in terms of reaction had nothing to do with the doping allegations, Larry asked Lance out of the blue if he was going to marry Sheryl, and that he should ask her on his show! For a second it almost seemed like he was going to do it! Lance said "OK..(laughed)" and then Bob Costas interrupted and said "I never would have asked you a question like that"
Knowing someone who got hit by lightning on his bike who now really enjoys the food he gets through his feeding tube makes me believe the 3 guys who turned around were actually the smarter ones. Death is not necessarily the worst thing that can happen.
On a brighter note, Armstrong is cocky as ever. If you read the non-American press though, his image has taken a serious hit.
Danny
I do wonder why Armstrong is disliked so much by the French journalists...why is he always singled out?
I wonder what the average guy thinks of him in France? Probably the same as here, it seems to be a "Love" "Hate" relationship. If you read some of the different Cycling forums it's quite an interesting debate whenever his name is mentioned. It always seems like the same paper (rag) attacking him in France.
I am beginning to have my doubts about the testing and reviewing process conducted by WADA. Lance aside Tyler Hamilton seems to have gotten the short end of the stick with his case and the way the Board voted on his case. Some of the stuff I have been reading lately on his case sure makes it seem shady. Not as clear cut as one would like if your career is on the line.
Scott
newsflash... most pro riders and top amateurs dope, INCLUDING armstrong. if you believe otherwise, kindly put your blinders on and keep believing.
If I believed that I would not have ANY interest in watching cycling as a sport. Your statement is no different than the sensationalist track that the others take when trying to smear somebody. You say MOST riders both amatuer and Pro dope, where's your proof? There's either a giant conspiracy or the dopers doctors (do amatuers have that kind of money?) are allot smarter than the regulators doctors. Do some riders dope, most certainly, I would be stupid if I didn't realize that fact. But I don't think that most do. I am by no means an elite amatuer but I can't imagine the guys that I know who are, doping. They seem to be like me they love to ride and they love the competition. They spend a great deal of time training and working hard, it seems to me that taking a short cut would be the last thing they would do for the sake of a win. It's kind of like that Nike commercial where they ask the question "Who's the real athlete some guy who makes a million bucks, or the average Joe holding down a job, raising a family but who still finds time to squeeze in training for something he loves?".
The two just seem at odds to me, Why work so hard just to cheat.
Blissfully Niave
Scott
check out the new post...
scott, you must be one of those guys who believes:
(a) bicycling magazine is a good source of news
(b) lance is american so therefore he doesn't dope
(c) oln cycling coverage is the best
Dear anonymous,
Please stop posting shit on Paul's blog about doping, unless you stop hiding behind your anonymous face. No one is interested in your comments under those circumstances. I will have a discussion with you anytime, since I have followed cycling since 1969 ( i was 12 than). I have seen Eddy Merckx ride more often times in person than you have used the word doping.
Lambert
YEAH!
I love it when Lambert gets authoritative. That is why he's such a good ride leader.
Anonymous, If you are who I think you are, you're probably just trying to get a rise out people by instigating some sh*t.
If you're not, then whoever you are, you should know that your comments are stirring sh*t up.
Either way, folks is gettin' pissed at that sh*t.
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