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Heading back South

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We are sort of packed up and are heading back south to Kansas today.  I didn’t realize I had a doctor’s appointment, plus a super good friend’s mom died and she and her family are flying in tonight.  So it is time to go.

It’s not all bad.  The weather up here in Cable is too warm.  So warm that the skiing sucks.  Like your skis stop when you hit a sunny patch of the Birkie trail.  That probably doesn’t bother guys that can ski really good, but that isn’t me and I don’t like it at all.   And it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow and Saturday. That isn’t so good for the snow.

Plus it is pretty warm in Kansas now.  At least for January.  Looks like the highs are gonna be in the upper 50’s through the weekend.  That is pretty good bikin’ weather.

Okay, Tucker needs to do his last lap in the woods.  He loves it up here.  He’s already been out romping for an hour this morning, but is always up for more.  Then 10 + hours of driving.  It is a tad too long to be comfortable.  I would like it way better if it was closer to 7.  But that ain’t so.

I’m looking forward to riding some.  I haven’t been feeling all that great the last few days and seem to feel better when I get on a riding routine.

Tucker resting up before the romp.

And doing some yoga stretching before the fun today.

And after, he usually ends up on the couch with Hawkeye and Dennis.

Lance and Company Racing in Tucson

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I saw a few days ago that Lance and some of his old Postal Service team mates are racing the 24 Hour Old Pueblo MTB Race in Tucson in a few weeks.  The article said that Lance, George Hincapie, Christian Vande Velde and Dylan Casey have put together a team.

I think the whole thing stinks.  I didn’t much like it when Tyler Hamilton went and won Mt. Washington Hillclimb when he was serving a two year timeout and I don’t like it anytime that Lance races bikes when he is currently suspended. As soon as his suspension is over, he can have at it.

I know that Lance’s “ban” from sports was partially lifted a few months ago.  I’ll find the article.   But I know that the ban was lifted in sports other than cycling.  Plus a lot of other stuff.  Cycling is still off-limits.  And I know that it says in sanctioned events.  Here is a link to an article.

I did the Old Pueblo race a couple years ago.  It was a blast.  Lots of life memories.  Those guys already have their life memories.  False memories, but memories, none-the-less.

Old Pueblo isn’t sanctioned.  But there are tons of races, that are races, that aren’t sanctioned. Most Grand Fondos, most MTB races, etc.  I really don’t want Lance, and his admitted doping buddies, showing up just to have fun.

In the article I read, George says – “Just bunch of old dudes trying to have fun time in the desert.”   If that is really the case, then they should go get a RV and a few cases of beer and have their fun in the desert.

Their fun is overlapping with a bunch of riders that are there to have fun too.  But also race. And these guys, the non-doping public, won’t get a thing out of the ex-Postal Service team doing laps with them.

I’m way more interested with Floyd and Dave (Landis @ Zabriskie) doing the Tour of Battenkill this year.  Neither of those guys have a lifetime ban from racing bikes, so they are free to enter races to “have fun”.

Whatever.  They should just throw the lifetime ban out on Lance and let the dude do whatever he wants on a bicycle.  He sort of is already.  Might as well make it “legal”.

Think this was the last time Floyd raced battenkill. Maybe 2010? I had to ride on a “Pro”like team to race the race the 2nd weekend.