Who names their kid Floyd ?

WOW !! Today was tres exciting in the bike race. Landis did what he had to do... attack, escape, lead, and win the stage. And make up many of those bonked minutes from yesterday. I might not have picked Floyd at the beginning, but he sure is making it hard to not like him. He never dogs his dog of a team. Just says he had to fight for them , for all the work they've done for him. It was best he just had his team car there and didn't have to depend on other riders for food and drink.

We were going crazy in the living room... yelling for him, grateful that the other teams did not have an answer. Unlike his wife, I could not watch the descents, that he took at high speed. Go Floyd GO !! and cautioning Sastre to be very careful. :) Slow down, Carlos !!

I don't know about the rest of you, but Gina and I get very emotional watching some of these sporting events. What do you mean, it's like golf on tv? (which isn't too bad, by the by) We are glued to the tv. Have promised to get Tivo for next year's Tour. So we don't have to get up at 4:00am, or videotape and make sure we wait til "live" version is over.

And just to emphasize our obsession, yes, we sometime watch the replay version later in the day, to hear the other 2 announcers' call of the day's race. Yes, that is sick but it seems there is no cure for us.

Today was a brief 25:00 swim in the a.m. Then a 3 mile run with some pickup minutes. Tomorrow is a rest day, with a trip up to the race site for packet pick up, get a lay of the land, parking wise.

I've had my seat ( excuse me, proper biking lingo is saddle) changed out and adjusted. Let's hope it causes no major problems. I've lost a couple toe nails this week. But I think that's a good thing.

Below is a link to a news article about the race. I'm not sure about this linking process, but if you get to the article be sure to read all the way to the last paragraph.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/snohomishcountynews/2003135685_triathlon19n.html