Tour is over

So this is christmas er no it's not but the Tour is over.

That was quick! Started early this year, I guess that's how it flew by so fast. Good job, Bonk! That's my new nickname for Floyd Landis after his bonk on the 2nd alps stage this year. But boy did he look good on that last alp stage and not too shabby on the time trial neither. Rasmussen looked friggin awesome on the day Bonk bonked. Also I so called Oscar Pirerro (sp?) doing well this year. He looked good last year so I knew he could hang in the mountains...actually he kinda bonked on the first alp stage when Floyd took the yellow back (only to lose it again) but who's counting. I'm just thrilled Kloden didn't win. T-mobile is eeeevil.

Maybe I should actually watch the Pyrnees next year if I'm gonna bitch about it going by too quick eh?

Bike-nuh-versary

What IS up?

I had my 2000-mile bike-nuh-versary yesterday. Little over two months late but oh, well. Gonna try an make the 3000-mile and 3-year bikerevseries coincide.

But anyway, my 2000-mile-versary coincided with Floyd Landis's re-taking of the yellow so that was swell except for Google made me pull a Seinfeld. You know the episode where Jerry has taped the Mets game and doesn't want anyone to tell him the score to ruin it for him? Well here I am, just checking my gmail and lo and behold, Google figures out I like bike racing and tells me the results. Yet another chapter in the saga of my love/hate relationship with Google.

Seriously, Google, today and tomorrow are both sick Alps stages. If you tell me the results again, I'm gonna kick your ass. OK?

On losing soccer cred

Forgive a post about sports. It's the world cup semi-finals and France is in it plus week 1 of the Tour.

Anyhow, so this story about losing my soccer cred is an old one because it came from when I was proudly sporting my Zidane shirt to celebrate France's advance into the round of 16. At that time we had little hope they would beat Spain, let alone beat Brazil and end up in the semi-finals (allez les bleus!). So ma Cherie was in town and we went into the city. We found ourselves running into french friends all over because of the Zidane shirt. Kewl. Anyway so as we're in Penn station waiting for our train home, some dude shouts "Theirry Henry!" at me. And I'm all "Who?" and there went what little soccer cred I had. Thierry Henry is the French striker who scored the winning (and only) goal against Brazil. By the time we watched the Brazil game I knew who he was. Speaking of the Brazil game, the bar where we watched that one was more Brazillian than French and so I learned me some Portugese. Vie! Vie! means Go! Go! and PUNTA! means, well you should already know what punta means. I'll give you a hint it means the same thing as putain and is used in the title of my previous post.

Ok and now for something completely different- a few words on the tour. So you still like CSC? You should still like T-mobile 'cause of Kloden. And they got rid of the team time trial? That was the best part! Right?!?

Allez les BLEUS!!!