View From the Bushes

I should have known that this was coming, but after working late nearly every night last week, I've come down with a sore throat. It's pretty lame to get a sore throat in July, particularly since it's one more hurdle to actually starting an exercise program (rather than just sitting on my bike every morning). My work has gone to a lot of effort to encourage people to exercise, and quite frequently they have month-long programs with prizes attached designed to encourage exercise. The latest starts tomorrow and I figured that was a good an excuse as any to get on my bike; oh yeah I guess the possiblity of an early death should also factor in there as well.

A friend of mine introduced me to a D&D Web Comic called "The Order of the Stick." It's quite good. I'm trying to think of something else funny, but at the moment nothing occurs to me. Actually, I did find a humorous picture from last year's Tour de France.

Speaking of the Tour, today was definitely one of the more exciting stages. Ullrich attacked about 50 km from the finish, but of course since Armstrong had almost 7 minutes on him there was no panic, but I don't think it was Armstrong Ullrich was trying to hurt. My guess is that Ullrich has given up on winning the Tour, but the record of never having finished less than 2nd is a pretty impressive record in its own right and I imagine that if possible he'd at least like to keep that intact. So even though Armstrong did eventually reel in Ullrich, he did manage to jump up several places in the standings, which in my opinion is what he was going for anyway. Armstrong himself managed to finally jump that last place in the rankings and finally took back the race lead. Of course, today's stage will probably pale in comparison to tomorrow's time trial up l'Alpe d'Huez.

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Ross