Winners...

Here are the winners of the Tour de France...Cadel Evans on the left was second. Alberto Contador of Discovery was first and his teammate, Levi Leipheimer, was third. Go Discovery!

Contador in yellow...

I should be excited...I am really. Contador, my man from Discovery is in yellow in the Tour. He took the leader's jersey when Rasmussen's team fired him after catching the Dane in a lie. He'd maintained all along that he was in Mexico when the anti-doping forces were looking for him to test his blood and other bodily fluids. Turns out he was in Italy. Naughty Chicken! (His nickname.) So Alberto donned the yellow duds last night and will ride in them today. Go Conti! (Please don't be another druggie.)

Happy birthday to me...

What a nice birthday gift. Alberto Contador (in 'Best Young Rider' white), a 24-year-old rider for Discovery Channel, won today's stage of the Tour de France and moved into second place just behind Michael Rasmussen (in yellow). Woohoo! And the icing on the (birthday) cake was Levi Leipheimer's move up to fourth place. He's Contador's American teammate. If only they could've pulled George Hincapie, Discovery's faithful "old" New Yorker, along with them. I'd love for him to win something. He deserves it after serving Lance Armstrong for so many years. I guess he got a stage victory last year. That's going to have to do I guess. His hopes are fading this year. He's in 37th place, 40 minutes behind the man in yellow. (Follow the Tour!)

Another one bites the dust...

My brother Patrick who lives in Russia finally bit the dust. He started a blog. Ha! He resisted for a long time, but he has succumbed.

Visit him at neifertfamily.blogspot.com.

Post a comment making fun of his blog. LOL!

Recovery...here's why!

Yesterday I wrote about my recovery ride. Here's why I take it easy the day after a hard effort...

This morning, I pushed my riding up another notch. I knocked out 21.64 miles at 19.7mph. I was at 19.8mph until the last quarter mile or so. I just couldn't hold on to that tenth against a stiffening south wind.

Still, this ride was my third best non-wind-assisted ride ever. I rode 23.37 miles at 19.7 in April 2006 and I sprinted to a 19.8mph average over 10.68 miles in August of the same year.

Today was fun...in a painful sort of way. If only I could get a group of guys to ride with me at that pace. Argh!

Hard to please...

Got this email from a friend recently...

Soon after my wife and I met, she mentioned how she really wished that she could afford a riding lawnmower. She was a single gal that worked all day and was often tired in the evening when she got home from work. So, being the handy sort of guy that I was, I made her a riding lawnmower. I guess I thought she would squeal with delight and give me a big hug. To this day I have never been able to understand why women are so hard to please.

I love it!