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Posted 7/1/2017 8:13 AM (GMT 0)
it's back!!! ok, the giro, dauphine ok, but the big one is here and i am settling in. am i excited, yes way!!!
Posted 7/1/2017 8:37 AM (GMT 0)
I am so glad that you are enjoying the races HT. So awesome to read! I am glad to see you are doing well it seems as well. Be safe and healthy hun.

Stay strong.
Posted 7/1/2017 9:18 AM (GMT 0)
Yay Jamie,

Enjoy the Tour De France!!! Keep us posted...

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 7/1/2017 4:39 PM (GMT 0)
Woohoo!! We were watching a bit earlier. I am so glad the first time trial is an early stage--get it out of the way for Quintana. Speed is not his forte.

BTW, HT, youtube posts some interesting commentary re: cycling. Check it out!

Go Movistar!
Posted 7/2/2017 8:13 AM (GMT 0)
cheers. stage 2. tonight........now we get on the road proper. 9 aussies across the teams. short $ is on porte. just looking forward to the mountains, pyrnees, decent's and demented sprints!!!
Posted 7/2/2017 7:35 PM (GMT 0)
Porte is good--what is it with Aussies and BMC? Tough break with Valverde's crash.

I get bored with the time trials--it can be hard to follow with TV coverage. I prefer the Pyrenees to the Alps,too--and always look forward to the cobblestone sections. Let's hope that the rain stays away on that day.
Posted 7/3/2017 10:43 AM (GMT 0)
bring it on. i was a prolific cyclist in my day, and fast, hence big leg muscles. i actually got caught speeding down a massive hill when i was 15, it was like 3am in the morning, my birthday and my tongan friends gave me kava and boy did i fly, could not feel my legs at all. was on a giant. 21st gear down a 15 percent long gradient, i was moving. got chased by a cop car that i was oblivious to. he just looked at me and said, what ya taken, i said kava, he put me bike in the back and drove me back.... i was high as a kite and loving life, he just smiled and shook his head.
Posted 7/3/2017 11:00 AM (GMT 0)
Wow Jamie, interesting story. Thanks for sharing. I will have to get some Kava, though I don't know if you can get that here. Ha Ha...

Take care mate... Enjoy the Tour...

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 7/3/2017 11:01 AM (GMT 0)
Wow Jamie, interesting story. Thanks for sharing. I will have to get some Kava, though I don't know if you can get that here. Ha Ha...

Take care mate... Enjoy the Tour...

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 7/3/2017 1:21 PM (GMT 0)
i could have been done for speeding, technically. but it was not an illegal drug, it is a opiate, however small amounts are available to islander people who use it in ceremonies and such. the root is the potent stuff, looks and tastes like dirty water though. i am watching as i type!!! looking forward to stage 5, they go up. sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak. kava u can get in tablet form, excellent for anxiety. but expensive.
Posted 7/3/2017 2:14 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Jamie. Enjoy the Tour!!!

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 7/3/2017 3:59 PM (GMT 0)
Years ago I visited Fiji and was served Kava as part of a friendship ceremony with some native Fijians. I will never forget the awful taste, or the fact that the ceremony meant we had to finish the entire (LARGE!) bowl full. (Large serving bowl had enough for about 10 people, but we were only 5, so had twice the usual amount.) My stomach sloshed for a week!
Posted 7/3/2017 4:46 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for sharing Lynnwood. Sounds cool if you didn't have to have so much.

Have a happy 4th....

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 7/4/2017 9:14 AM (GMT 0)
4th. your day of independence.
Posted 7/6/2017 11:49 PM (GMT 0)
Whoa--Sagan! Never been much a Cav fan, but Sagan!! I think this is bullpatootie.
Posted 7/7/2017 1:34 AM (GMT 0)
i agree. i mean cav has form with his head butting and such. and no gap either. i mean sagan a pretty boy, but did not deserve to be booted. go porte, catching froome.
Posted 7/10/2017 12:21 AM (GMT 0)
Jamie-Sorry about the crash today. I thought of you when we saw it. It could have been far, far worse, and he is a lucky man. Porte could be back on a bike in a month, starting to get strength back.
Posted 7/10/2017 2:46 AM (GMT 0)
awesome stage though. just went to bed before he crashed. heard it though. stayed up way too long, and the mirtaz become a little ineffective!! such is life.
Posted 7/14/2017 8:53 AM (GMT 0)
ha ha sky!! lost the yellow. good job. what's this bs that riders can't attack because froome makes a mistake or a mechanical? attack, attack i say!!! is this the tour or what?
Posted 7/14/2017 9:43 AM (GMT 0)
lol
Posted 7/14/2017 5:28 PM (GMT 0)
Froome is okay--it is time the tour got topsy-turvy. But I do like Aru a good bit. And, after much thought, I agree with you. If your team can slow down the peloton when something happens to you--okay. If a situation beyond the rider's control impacts several riders, okay. I am thinking of the tour back with Wiggins and Evans when someone was throwing tacks on the road, and a bunch of people got flats. And I do think the organizers need something to account for when a motorcycle, a team car, or a fan interferes with the riders. Last year's impact with Froome was terrible luck. But this business of neutralizing the peloton for the leader's fall or mishap is a bit awkward. Either this is sport, or this is a Sunday ride.
Posted 7/15/2017 7:06 AM (GMT 0)
missed last night. tacks on road.....no good hey. no sunday riding allowed, in my book, that is!! go hard or go home.
Posted 7/17/2017 6:46 PM (GMT 0)
Wah!! Nairo faded yesterday!!

But this is one of the most exciting tours in recent memory. So many GC injuries has blown the field wide open. The loss of Thomas has enabled riders to widen a crack in the vaunted Sky's armour.

I wish we got it live--it is only on one pay-channel. Cycling is not a big sport here in the US. Any predictions? Fabio Aru will be on the podium--and I think Froome will be able to hold on to the podium, but not necessarily the yellow jersey.
Posted 7/19/2017 1:17 AM (GMT 0)
froome too good on time trial stages. missed last night. tonight we go up. yes wide open.....next two stages will sort some wheat from the chaff. not over just yet. no predictions, will let it unravel. thx for writing. we get it live, sometimes we miss the start and early k's.
Posted 7/20/2017 7:44 AM (GMT 0)
watched em get over the telegraph and gabile' or however it is spelt, then i crashed. catch up tonight iozward. or however that one is spelt.
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