lunch spins
well ~ don't have time to really scribble all i want down ... but, MKA got me thinking about that fateful Stage 17.
It was such an amazing day.
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Few people acknowledge just how intense it was on the Col des Saisies as the Phonak team shredded the GC riders apart ... one by one. Each of Floyd's teammates ripping himself inside-out on the Saisies, only 70k into the race, shattering the peloton until but a handful of climbers were left. Riders like Miguel Perdiguero who probably wouldn't have even started the stage, but was told the plan and how he was needed ... and dug himself out to serve his captain. And who, after taking his monster turn at the front, sacrificing himself into untold amounts of pain, promptly climbed off his bike, quitting the race. Exhausted.
And then Landis attacked.
Alone.
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It wasn't a "tactical decision" to let Floyd go (as MKA suggested in his rantings) ... no, he flat out burned them all off his wheel. Pure, unyielding, unmatchable power.
After 17 stages of the hardest bike race in the world.
It was the best day of cycling i've ever seen.
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doping gives you legs, but determination gives you glory.
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whatever ~
somebody send me Redlands opening TT results!
23 comments:
"doping gives you legs, but determination gives you glory" - nice!
yes, that was an unforgetable stage...
This stage will not be deleted from my Tivo for a long time...
Amber Neben won the women's TT. Don't know the exact order, but I think top 6 went Amber N., Christine, Dotsie, Mara Abbott, Katharine Carroll, Rachel Heal.
Hope that helps. I will try to confirm....
but what if doping is your "determination" crutch...
I dont buy it...like it or not IF he doped he cheated which would make it a very forgettable stage
there's the rub.
http://www.redlandsclassic.com/results/2006/st1_mFINAL.pdf
oh...speaking of dopers who gave us many glory filled moments...
who is going to be the first to get one of these: http://www.museeuwbikes.be/item.php?lang=EN&itemno=1_24
the graphics are, well, very lionish?
http://www.redlandsclassic.com/results/results.shtml
Neben wins again. ouch.
Webcor have both 3 riders in the top 6?
oh man, they've got to send Heal and Abott up the road ... because I don't think Thorburn can climb with Neben up Oak Glen.
or can she?
but that's a helluva ride by the Aaron's rider. I didn't have Carroll on my radar at all.
shyte.
thx and keep me posted!
is that the latest? 2006? I am confused...
1st Sevin Tuft 3:29
2nd BJM @3:34
poor f'ing Wohlberg.
at the front ... all day long tomorrow.
double ouch.
is that 3:34 down or 5 sec. down for BJM?
i also noticed that BJM was one of the first of the top-ranked riders to go off.
small thing, but insulting nonetheless.
he should have been one of the final 5 to start.
these are the small things give an event class.
Isn't the order of the teams for a TT like this random? ie they pick a number and that's it.
at the promoter's discretion.
for example, Neben - as returning champ - was given last start for the women (and rightly so, in my book).
you create drama in bike races with such stuff.
but it takes work and time and those promoters probably had too much of one and ran out of the other.
but, the local girl still got her TT start last (Neben from Pomona).
cool.
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numerically challenged
symmetrics has a fun, fun day ahead
Grajales in 3rd.
that boy could well win Redlands this year. he's got TT power going, and can win crits, AND has his climbing?
huge TT win for Symmetrics - but, if JitteryJ's can win the overall?
... holey-crap.
http://www.redlandsclassic.com/results/results.shtml
My buddy J.E. ended up having a bad day and finishing 188th out of 189. Ouch!
Feel bad for him but shit happens.
ms
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I was giving him what respect he deserved.
IE:Bad day ='s shit happens not Dude sucks ass and doesn't belong in the race.
And you knew that!
ms
Hey Dr.FleaBrain
What kind of an idiot would interpret McSassy's comment as not respectful?
Anno
The Doc knows me quite well and also knows I like to push buttons from time to time.
This just wasn't one of those times.
Not a big deal.
On a side note to my comment. JE was sick, not just a bad day. Sucks even worse when your head says yes and everything else in your body laughs at you.
MS
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