I got back to Kansas about 1 am this morning. I flew back through Denver and they were clearing snow off the runway. Then, coming into Kansas City, storms were a brewin’, so it was a pretty bumpy landing.

I am heading down to Austin, Texas for the Formula 1 this next weekend. I know, no Jingle Cross. But, I committed to the F1 before Jingle Cross changed its dates to before Thanksgiving, at least before I realized it was a week earlier, so I’m going to Austin. I have a bunch of stuff to do here these next few days.

Shimano has new derailleur cables that are super slick. Something like Gore, but they seem to be slicker. There are rumors that they can go up to 10,000 miles or more. Since I’ve never gotten more than half that out of any cable, I’d be pleasantly surprised if that is the case.

I finally got some Di2 shifters to put on my cross bike. Eventually, I’d like to get over to Steamboat to have Kent make my bikes internal routing for the cables. It seems a little complicated to install, so it might take awhile this afternoon. It is only in the 40’s and raining now, so there are worse things to be doing today.

I missed the local cross race at Heartland Park last night put on by Jeff Unruh. It was warm, windy and a good time I hear.

Sue and Don’s puppy, Ranger, went home yesterday after a successful surgery. He still has a couple weeks of radiation to go through, so it’s going to be a long road.

I bet he’s going to sleep today away for sure.

This was the bed when I got home at 1 am. Bromont was not very happy. These three guys tend to hang together, inside or out.

I remembered to get my knife that the TSA was going to take away on the flight out. It took me a few moments to find it in the dark, buried by the tree.

This was in the Orange County airport. They should be embarrassed. And, it wasn’t the only one overflowing. Maybe they had a trash collector’s strike or something going on.

These are the next generation of the Shimano Road Shoes. If you’re going to be needing a pair of new road shoes soon, wait a couple months. These weigh nearly nothing, it amazing.

And these are the super slick cables. They have a different color and feel. You need to use them with the SP-41 housing, it has the white grease, not the green.

This Range Rover was in the airport in Kansas City. It attracted me because I saw about 10,000 of these the last few days in SoCal. The sticker price on this one was $88,000. All I can say is……nothing.

Lance has been laying pretty low since this whole USADA file was turned over to the UCI. Today I read this article at Cyclingnews.com that said that Lance has resigned completely from the LiveStrong board of directors.

I haven’t been actively following the activities of Lance recently unless he happened to be somewhere I was, like in San Diego a month or so ago. I read somewhere he was hanging out in Hawaii, but I have no idea why that was.

Anyway, Lance was right in resigning from the LiveStrong board if he was worried about the survival of LiveStrong, which obviously he was. Now that Nike, Oakley, Trek (to some degree), Michelob Lite, and nearly all his other sponsors have pulled the plug, I wonder if Lance had previously thought the carnage would be this severe?

I read somewhere that Lance would be losing about 12 million yearly from loss of speaking engagements. The article said that he receives about $200,000 per engagement. I found a place where it is only $100,000 a talk. I wonder if he’s even available now?

Nearly all the Spanish riders seem to support Lance. I wonder what they owe him. And of course we have the idiotic interview with Benoit Joachim saying that he never doped, but now regrets it, and never “saw” organized doping on the Postal Service Team. Then he goes on to contradict himself by saying, “Doping was not imposed by the team. Every rider had his own choice and I refused.” What a moron.

I have to admit that I think Lance is getting a bad rap in one respect. I don’t think he was the drug lord that he is being made out to be by the media and some of his former team mates. There were/are hundreds of riders taking drugs. And Postal wasn’t the only organized team in this respect. Everyone was doing it, Lance was just doing it much better.

Anyway, it is going to be very interesting how history treats this whole affair. And how it is going to play out though out the years. I didn’t really get any surprised here. Americans are very forgiving in the long run. Ultimately, I believe that is how this is going to be for Lance and we’ll see a lot more of him in the future.

Here are some photos I found he posted recently at his twitter account. He seems to be same old same old.

Here is a spin on Lance and his jersey collection showcase.