Sadly, the Tour is over; no more mornings spent watching the live coverage from France, nor the repeat with interviews at night. Lance rode a brilliant race. Unfortunately the last day coverage on CBS was pretty pathetic. I'll have to wait for tonight's coverage on OLN to see who won the green jersey and what really happened in today's race. I guess CBS doesn't think Americans are ready to spend more than a few brief moments watching a bike race. It was also sad to see that today's coverage was the only one listed in the Washington Post, who ignored the previous 3 weeks of coverage on OLN.

Rode a metric century on the croweded bike trail yesterday. I was wishing for hot weather to keep all the casual trail users safely in their air-conditioned homes. It only takes a few jerks to make the trail nearly unuseable on a cool, sunny day. It was mostly the hotshot rollerbladers and a couple of fast cyclists in pacelines who made the trip dangerous. I guess its the authoritarian in me who gets annoyed at this kind of behaviour, but as much as I try to chill out, I usually get pissed and yell. If only some of the walkers could use the parallel unpaved trail that goes unused.
posted by Bruce Wright at 3:36 PM #