Lance Armstrong

I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't getting a chuckle out of Lance Armstrong mopping up the field in the Tour de france.  Here's the premier event in france (name something bigger in france.....I didn't think so) and the entire cycling world is getting it's collective ass kicked by Lance Armstrong, American.  For the sixth consecutive year.  They should just go ahead and change the name to "Tour de Lance" and be done with it.

At the end of today's stage, our hero's lead is something like six and two / thirds minutes over the second place guy.  The man in a fookin' machine; he smoked the field today, biking 34.18 miles in one hour, six minutes, and thirty-nine seconds.  That's over 30 mph to you and me.

Wow.

I was on the (old and decrepit) mountain bike this evening, and rode about 10 miles in just over an hour and twenty minutes.  I'm beat and my rump hasn't been this sore since the last time I rode the bike for over an hour, and I don't have to get up in the morning and ride over 100 miles to paris.  Re-hydrating with a large jug of Ernest & Julio Gallo's finest isn't going to help my cause.

Bravo, Lance.