Final Prep

Did not ride on Tues, took the day off. Four hard days in a row was giving the shoulder some pain. I think it is all muscular, not the injury. The body wants to compensate for not being able to use the parts it normally wants to use. As a result, the body's compensation caused other muscles stress and are a little sore. This too shall pass. I am so looking forward to this experience. Good news, I think the legs and lungs are ready.

Please try to get updates on the Tour de France itself. It is incredibly exciting this year. There are no clear favorites and with two US teams (Garmin and Columbia)doing so well it would be good to give the sport more suppport. The Stage 3 race performance by Will Frischkorn, Team Garmin, was awesome! He was in a 4-man break from mile 0 on a 123 mile race. This is this kid's first TdF and only got word of his opportunity to participate 9 days prior to the start. You could see he was totally gassed at the end, but digging like crazy for the finish line. He finished second by less than 1/2 a wheel length. Meanwhile, his team director was in the announcer's booth going nuts rooting for his guy to win. Yesterday, Will's teammate from Garmin, David Millar, had a great result in the individual time trial race. Stayed tuned, more to come...