Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Tour de California

The Tour rode right past the end of my street yesterday. It was 45 degrees and raining hard, so they were all covered up and it was hard to pick anyone out of the crowd. My friend Paul took some pictures, but I still can't make anyone out. Can you?

These pictures are taken right down the street from my place, at the tollbooth plaza by the GGB. The tour started in Sausalito yesterday, this is right after they came across the bridge. I was surprised by how small the peloton was. Needless to say I was a little disappointed by my first Tour experience. Next year I'm going to try to get to one of the big climbs so they'll be going slower and hopefully more spread out.








10 comments:

  1. That's my boy Dave Z in the third picture down, sort of upper left of the photo. I can make out teams and make guesses who is who in some shots, but not much better than that.

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  2. Good call. Is that Mancebo in the center of that picture?

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  3. I think that might be Big Tom Boonen at the front of the pack in the first pic.

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  4. Jeff Louder of Salt Lake last picture bottom right. Barredo 5th pic.

    Dude, and I dont know you but bad move dropping your potential bike hook-ups. Doesn't make sense dude on a lot of levels.

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  5. MY potential bike hookups? I don't follow.

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  6. Hottest girl from Utah with potentially the hottest bike hook-ups. Probably regular hooking up to. doesnt make much sense dude. We are still scratching our heads over here.

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  7. You're right Dan, you don't know me. And honestly I'm embarrassed myself and for her that you posted that here. The fact that you would call me out based on a gear hookup doesn't say a whole lot about you either. She however is awesome, and it was never about the bike, her appearance, or anything related to her.

    If I could I would remove your posts, just on the off chance that she might stumble upon them, or that someone in their infinite wisdom would be stupid enough to pass them along, as has happened in the past. Keep your gossip to a minimum and don't bother worrying about it anymore, dude. If you have anything else to say, I hope it's about the pictures.

    To 'the girl,' if you ever do see this; I'm sorry.

    Also, I recant my earlier post. That's not Tom Boonen at the front.

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  8. that's andy schleck in the 5th picture

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  9. Good eye on Louder. He had an awesome stage. He is really showing awesome stuff lately in these races. I hope to see more of that in the future.

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  10. Dude and I barely even know her but face it the girl has it all so pray you werent a dumbass and let her get to out of reach. That is all.

    and Yeah, it is great to see Utah represent in these races. looking forward to the rest of the season for sure.

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