View From the Bushes

Today was not a great day. Not only did I have a headache the entire day, but then I had to go to my wife's ten year reunion and watch a 45 minute video of goofy high school kids I didn't know. Okay the reunion wasn't that bad, my wife actually has some friends from high school who i quite like. But paying $45/head for a meal from Chuck-a-Rama (maybe slightly better, but it definitely wasn't as good as Sizzler) with a vaguely painful, poorly edited video thrown in at the end, was a too much.

In any case as you can see Wil's new adventure isn't available yet. Part of the reason is the aforementioned headache, and reunion. Another part is the 3.5 stuff (and the conflicting emotions of joy and pain I'm experiencing as I look through the books). Finally this years Tour de France has just been too darn exciting. Today Ullrich finished ahead of Armstrong by 7" which along with the 12" time bonus he got for finishing second left Armstrong in yellow but only just barely. Ullrich is a mere 15 seconds back and even though Armstrong finished ahead of Vinokourov, it was only ten seconds so he's still just a minute back.

Now Armstrong's claim is that he got so dehydrated on yesterday's TT that he lost 6 kilos. That's 13 lbs folks...that's not dehydration that's near death. Something like you don't recover from in 24 hours so he didn't expect to have a good day. If basically true, one can only imagine what he could do if he were firing on all cylinders. On the other hand it could still be something chronic about his condition and if it is the Ullrich would win, and I for one would be happy to see him win. His story of redeption has nothing on Lance's recovery from cancer, but it's still nice enough that I wouldn't begrudge him second (and I think Armstrong would still get second which isn't bad).

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