All I have to say is that if it was me positive for clenbuterol, do you think that I wouldn’t be serving a suspension? And for how long wouldn’t I be serving that suspension for? What about the plastic?

Here is what some cycling journalist have to say about today’s news.

And, Tom Boonen.

Here’s a link to a Velonews.com story about who Lance beat in 2005. Disgusting.

This isn’t so, so bad. All three of these guys are happy now. Obviously, Alberto is happy. And since Andy didn’t really want to win the Tour de France, at least that way, I assume he’s happy. And Menchov didn’t want to get 2nd instead of 3rd, so I guess everyone on the podium is happy by this ruling.

Here’s a list of how that podium of the Tour de France would have looked during Lance’s reign to Floyd’s problem. Anyone that was every positive was left out of the results. I’m so glad that this year we don’t have to do that. Makes the sport seem so much more clean and fair now!

1999
1. Lance Armstrong (1)
Alex Zulle (2)
2. Fernando Escartin (3)
Laurent Dufaux (4)
3. Angel Casero (5)

2000
1. Armstrong (1)
Jan Ullrich (2)
Joseba Beloki (3)
Christophe Moreau (4)
Roberto Heras (5)
Richard Virenque (6)
Santiago Botero (7)
2. Fernando Escartin (8)
Franciso Mancebo (9)
3. Daniele Nardello (10)

2001
1. Armstrong (1)
Ullrich (2)
Beloki (3)
2. Andrei Kivilev (4)
Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (5)
3. Francois Simon (6)

2002
1. Armstrong (1)
Beloki (2)
Raimondas Rumsas (3)
Botero (4)
Galdeano (5)
2. Jose Azevedo (6)
Mancebo (7)
Levi Leipheimer (8)
Roberto Heras (9)
3. Carlos Sastre (10)

2003
1. Armstrong (1)
Ullrich (2)
Alexander Vinokourov (3)
Tyler Hamilton (4)
2. Haimar Zubeldia (5)
Iban Mayo (6)
Ivan Basso (7)
Moreau (8)
3. Sastre (9)

2004
1. Armstrong (1)
Andreas Kloden (2)
Basso (3)
Ullrich (4)
2. Azevedo (5)
Mancebo (6)
3. Georg Totschnig (7)

2005
1. Armstrong (1)
Basso (2)
Ullrich (3)
Mancebo (4)
Vinokourov (5)
Leipheimer (6)
Michael Rasmussen (7)
2. Cadel Evans (8)
Floyd Landis (9)
3. Oscar Pereiro (10)

2006
Landis (1)
1. Pereiro (2)
Kloden (3)
2. Sastre (4)
3. Evans (5)

Yesterday I woke up sick. Guess I touched too many people in NYC or on the way home. Flying in the winter sometimes isn’t the best idea. Anyway, I don’t get well too quickly usually. I don’t have a spleen. I fell out of a tree when I was 6 and ruptured it. The spleen filters your blood and keeps your lungs from being infected. I have to get pneumonia shots because of it. Anyway, I’m not a Sven Nys that is sick and Friday and wins a World Cup on Sunday. Sometimes I stay sick a long while.

But, I don’t stop riding when I’m sick. I just ride easier and shorter. So, I guess I have a couple days to figure out the weekend. I’m not big on traveling ill, but sometimes racing sick makes you better quick. Don’t ask me why that is. I just know by experience.

I hate routines. It seems like as you age, you do get set into routines easier than when you were young. I’m not sure why that is. But, I try to avoid routine with a passion. Bromont is on a routine. He has to go running when I get back from riding. And he has to go for a walk between 10-12 at night. He usually starts bugging me by 10:30pm if I haven’t acknowledged that we’re going soon. So, I’m trying to avoid routine, but my dog gets me on a routine I love. Strange.

Last night, our cat Lilly went on the whole dog walk through the neighborhood. When I got about a 1/2 mile away from home, I finally picked him up and carried him. He just wanted to watch what Bromont was doing. They’re buddies.

Did you have a chance to watch the Westminister Dog show on TV the last two nights. A Scottish Deerhound won the Best of Show. The dogs I saw in front of my hotel on Sunday must of been there for the dogshow. I kind of wished I would have stayed another day to watch. Would have been fun.

Okay. I’ve been trying to drink a bunch of fluids. I don’t really think that helps me get well any quicker. Seems like I just have to pee a lot more often. I’ve been making fresh orange and grapefruit juice though. Seems a little like a waste, since I can’t really appreciate the taste as I should. It good for your mind either way. I’m going to do all the things that you’re supposed to do. I should probably just start taking antibiotics.

Hickory, a Scottish Deerhound from Virginia.

Lilly, a orange and white Tabby from Kansas.