Comments on: I Hate Rest Days

By: woofy

woofy — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:34:15 +0000

Any idea what cyclist’s do on “rest days”? Ride there bikes, for between about 20 to 40 miles. Funny eh?

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:38:11 +0000

Thanks for that, Christopher, obviously I’m hoping the second scenario will come true and Armstrong and his Discos are challenged, and challenged, and then challenged again.

Damn, I wish the coverage started early on weekdays too! You’re so lucky in Europe, Marrije, that you get such uninterrupted live coverage.

For the record it’s only if there are more than two links in a comment that it winds up in the moderating queue (that I always forget to check).

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:26:23 +0000

John Wilcockson’s got a pretty good preview of the upcoming Alpine stages, focussing on tomorrow’s mountaintop finish at Courchevel, at velonews.com. I’m going to try to put a link in here, but I think Justine might have it set up where those don’t come through.

http://velonews.com/tour2005/news/articles/8466.0.html

By: marrije

marrije — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:09:32 +0000

Baaah rest days! Chuck ‘m. Sissies. Thank goodness the endless nattering on tv does go on tonight, and ‘we’ have had a smashing good weekend, so natter away we will!

By: Vernieda

Vernieda — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:46:26 +0000

I know! A day without stage coverage? What am I supposed to do with myself? A Tour highlight program isn’t going to do me any good since I’ve watched every stage from start to finish. (I even got up at 6:30 yesterday just so I could watch live coverage of Stage 9!)

Bah. No fair.

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:29:07 +0000

yeah, yeah, yeah. Stupid rest day!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:20:31 +0000

See, this is the kind of day that you pull out your DVDs of your favorite races of past years. For tonight, I’m thinking of either the 2004 Paris-Roubaix (Magnus!) or the 2003 Tour de Romandie (Tyler!).

Also, you do realize that Voight taking the jersey is actually good for the Discos, right? I was hoping for pretty much anybody besides a CSC, because now CSC will have to burn a bunch of matches to defend, and it’ll be them chasing instead of attacking.

Watch for Chris Horner to go for a stage win tomorrow or Wednesday. You heard it here first.

Also, just because not enough people are saying it, allez Joseba!