So the other day I wrote this post on cycling in life. The thing is, I only wish I could have summed it up as well as Belgium Knee Warmers did in this post. The truth is, cycling can be the glue that holds the fragile bits of our lives together. It's the release that makes paying the bills, taking out the trash and the unfinished action item possible. ...Cycling gives us the ability to achieve more...

Click this link to listen to le Tour live. http://eurosport.yahoo.com/audioplayer.html...

See if you can manage a better cycling team than me. Sign up at the Versus site, then join the "Rochester, MN" league to play directly against me. I guess that if you win the overall Versus league, you get a chance to go to next years tour. In France. Then there's also the Fly to the Finish sweepstakes. Watch the TV coverage daily for a code word. Then also look at the online widget page for anothe...

No prologue time trial this year. So the action started pretty fast on a rolling stage 1 that ended with a steep climb coming out of a fast narrow bridge. Valverde took the win that let the world know that he is attempting to win the overall, as the new "boss" of the peloton....

UPS man came by and dropped off a new head unit. I used Garmin Training Center to upload my rider settings (heart rate zones and stuff), but any other settings have to be reset manually. So I spent some time configuring the display screens to what I'm used to. Now I just need to pack up my old head with the RMA number and send it back to them, and I'll get a refund for the $99 repair cost....