View From the Bushes

For those not interested in cycling, you should probably just skip this one. Well, the Tour is right around the corner and once again it's time to make my annual bet with my dad. Each year we go double or nothing, but each year (at the insistence of my mother, I imagine) he makes the bet easier. This year it's up to $320 and I can choose to either predict the winner or predict two of the three podium finishers. I'm choosing the latter and I'm going to pick Armstrong and Ullrich. Ullrich is in the lead at the Swiss Tour and Armstrong and Discovery are looking very strong in the Dauphine.

As a cost-saving measure we got rid of extended cable last year, so we currently don't get OLN. I'm not sure if I can make it through July without being able to watch the tour. I know I'll be kicking myself if it's really close. Maybe I'll call up Comcast later today and see how much it would cost to add enough channels to get OLN back. Of course, Tyler Hamilton is not going to be in the tour, so my enjoyment is somewhat lessened right from the beginning.

Of course while on the subject of cycling I'm sure everyone wants to know if I went riding last night. And of course the answer is no... I had a goal for what I wanted to accomplish on Monday in order to feel good about biking and I fell far short of that goal. So at this point, I'm just going to push it back to July. Once I get back from Origins, my hope is that things will be much quieter.

Gas light came on around 4 am this morning...
Ross