Post Tour Blues and The New Program

Now that the dust is settling from the TDF we get to see what was really going on inside Astana. Apparently, Contador finally felt like a big enough boy to speak his mind AFTER the race. Come on "bert. Couldn't you have MTFU'd and been honest during the race? Surely you weren't worried about losing friends on the team.

The Colbert Report broke the news that Contador is even branching into self-promotion with an armband that immediately screams his name.

Good luck next year on Euscatel(sp?) , and when you attack your teammates there, do it early. They wont be around at the end.

Obviously this man can ride. Great climber? check. Great tt? double check.

good teammmate? hmmmmmmmmm.

Good for the sponsor who paid for this to happen? uh, not really.

Im obviously as far from being a pro as a cyclist can get(shutup Garner), but as a business person what Contador did was anti-sponsor. I thought those were hard to come by? Your team had a chance to sweep the podium but you wanted to win a little bigger? doooooooood/hermanooooo. Don't bite the hand that feeds you/gives you free bikes/clothing etc.

I wonder if Levi and Horner have tried on their new Team Radioshack Kit? 2010 should be a really interesting tour.

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A Whole New Program

In other, non-champion cyclist bashing news, I am actually really excited about my Cyclocross training program this year. I've been doing some endurance work already with some long(for me) 2 hour cross rides to build fitness/reduce fatness, but the real fun starts in about a week. I skipped ahead on the training schedule to see what was in store for me and wow!! Curtis has hit this one out of the park. Very skill specific workouts, drills that look like fun(painful, but fun), and a workload thats going to be tough but seems to point in the direction of the races.

Its very different than last years program, which was more general.

I'll still suck, but I'll be well trained to look as though my suffering is more meaningful at the very least. And suffering without meaning? What a waste.

We'll see. I'm signed up for the Kings Cross in late September with a packed field of me, Doug and halioris(mr not mrs)(i think). Hope I'm not in the back row, as they're doing call ups by registration date. Sigh.

Bring on the fun. If I survive this weekends field test, then alles goed.

If not, there's always the Cambridge Police Department. they should be hiring about now. I could go there and feel like a genius. Actually we all could.

It's not their fault. I heard Mel Gibson wrote their training manual.

I know cops are usually a little jaded, but you can imagine the conversation. "yeah, yeah, you're friends with the president. Why I'm having beers with him next week myself"

Don't you hope that in the secrecy of the oval office, Obama looks him in the eye and just asks him. seriously. "WTF Cracker?"

My only disappointment is that the Pres drinks Bud Light????? Support a small business and throw down a nice american craft brew. We could send Fatty up there to be the beer sommelier. Trust me on this. Our man can guide you, or let Myerson do it. You know he wants to.

Trust me, the bud light crowd would've checked the professors ID too. Have a nice Magic Hat.

Sorry. That was 2 "trust me's" in the same thought, and you know thats how my people say "F-You"

Of course I didn't mean you. Well, some of you.