Le Tour

Woke up early this morning and watched a bit of the first stage individual time trial before the kids got up and made that all but impossible. The tape was running (yes I'm one of the few without TiVo), so I didn't mind too much, but American time trial champion David Zabriskie had a minute over the next rider in an incredible effort when I had to turn it off. But none of the big names had gone yet.

OLN's coverage is pretty bad, but its getting better, or maybe I'm getting used to it. Here's a funny link on their website. Uh guys, that's LAST YEAR's rider list.

On my wish list of this year's tour: the yellow jersey changes hands eight or nine times, Chris Horner and/or Fred Rodriguez win a stage and Levi Leipheimer gets on the podium. I've seen them race at the local yokel races, so I've got to root for them. Fred Rodriguez used to train down at Hellyer Vellodrome just before the Wednesday night racing. This was years ago. I'd stand there in awe watching him rip off lap after lap. And of course I'll be rooting for Discovery Channel, and Lance, but that's different.

Oh yeah, definitely what I love about July.