Violent Femmes

Blister in the Sun is one of the all time greats on the Hi-Fi top 5 list of punk rock songs. This song brings me back to college days when it got a lot of play. Great, great song. I love the girls lip sync in the video... how her lips are not quite in sync with the music, but she is clearly a prototype violent femme.


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Floyd, Floyd, Floyd... I'm sorry I doubted your hurculean size heart when I doubted you would return to the top 5 after the stage 16 meltdown. Words don't describe the ride you put in on stage 17. Goose bumps. A ride we dream of executing in our own races let alone the tour when the yellow is on the line. That's not supposed to be possible. A true champine.

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Yesterday's workout: 10x15-25second sprinties with 10 min rest in between. Workouts like those are easy to get through mentally versus say 8x5min hill climb intervals of the other day. They make your muscles sore later though, in a "hey, I just spent 2 hours pumping iron" way. Loser.

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Holy shyte! Google doubled it's profits last quarter. Way above analyst expectations. I thought they were getting big enough that it would be harder for them to continue hitting it out of the park, but they did it again. Their CEO, Eric Schmidt, used to be CEO of the company I work for but he was ousted around 2000. Went to work for Google and 18 months later they IPO'd giving him 5Bil. Not bad for 18 months of work, ey? Talk about being at the right place at the right time. I think YouTube is the next big thing in high tech IPO market. They'll be uge.

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100 degree plus weather to continue in the hood for the next 6 days at least. Not good training weather, so the ride rats have been going out at o'dark thiry in the morning when it's say only in the 80's and feels down right chilly. I'll be launching for 4 hours on Sunday around 5:30 AM or so.

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Ok, time to fire up that Violent Femmes album and get some work done.

Huge cracks found in France

I've been needing inspiration to blog and finally found it. If this doesn't give you grins, don't know what will. The volume is kind of soft, so turn your volume alway the up before clicking the link.

She looks like my buddies wife. Except this girl is younger, and my friend's wife is French. Well ok, the only similarity is the bleach blond hair and rack... although the friend's wife are fake. Not sure about this girl.

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I'm writing my congressman to ask if he'll sponsor a Bill to keep Mr. Bush abroad for the remainder of the term. He's just has so much more comedic value when demonstrating to the world what a Rico Suave prez he is.

There's an old saying in Tennessee: "Fool me once... shame on ... shame on you ... ... ... You fool me, you can't get fooled again". Doesn't apply to all you fools who voted for 'im twice though.

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Oh! He's popped. Floyd? No me, dummy. In nearly every race and in this mornings pre-dawn attack on Ridge Road. Did 6x5min intervals on the hill at max effort. I was experimenting with different climbing styles. Did the first two seated at high cadence and made it to the orange mailbox. The next one attacking hard on the steeps and keeping the pressure on the flatter sections with a lower cadence and made it 15 seconds further along. The next one a mix of the two styles and made it to the orange mailbox and the fifth one seated but one gear harder than first two and finished about 10 seconds shy of the mailbox. Did the 6th on a different section of the hill so no comparison and then did two more 5 minute intervals on the flat-rollers on the way home for a total of 8. All on 3 minutes rest in between. No power or HR data because the PowerTap (tm) is on warranty and Hancock took my Polar (tm). So the data clearly shows that the aggresive power riding attack style is faster, the problem is that blows up my legs. What to do? PS - you're a total loser if you just read this 3-dot. Get a life, bike geek.

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Did you hear they found a huge crack in France? Oprah Winfrey? No, Floyd Landis. Oh it was great theater today. What a monumental break down for Floyd dropping right from the Yellow to 11th place. I feel for him and think he's put in a great effort. Good run Floyd put you're out of the top 5 now I fear unless something equally dramatic happens tomorrow.

Levi's effort was admirable. Great to see him risk it all in order to try to make something happen even if he couldn't make it stick. In retrospect, he could have stuck with the group and probably gone with Sastre, but who knew Floyd was gonna crack so bad.

Also beautiful rides by Oscar P, Sastre and the T-Mobiles. I'm not a big fan of Rassconcentrationcampmussen but have to recognize his great ride too. Still hoping Delafuentes retakes the Dots tomorrow though.

It ain't over yet.

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I love Phil Ligget, but is anyone else noticing that he get's the call wrong an awful lot? I wonder if he's losing his marbles a bit. How old is he? Poor Sherwin is constantly having to correct the call and sometimes he doesn't even bother because it happens so often. Maybe time to give Roll the seat. Oh, and get rid of Trout-wad... jeez.