Paris-Roubaix
After riding away from Boonen on the Kapelmuur last week in Flanders, Cancellara has to be the favorite for today. The strongest of the strong men last week...but the weather, the cobbles, the crashes, the tires going flat, all the obstacles that can disrupt the well made plans. 259 kms, 27 sections of cobbles, railroad crossings, lots can happen. The weather - Clear, 10 deg C, cold NNE head wind. This will require a strongman. Who can challenge? Boonen ('05, '08, '09), Flecha, O'Grady, Hincapie, Devolder? Ah yes, the greatest one day race of the year. Enjoy! VS - 5:00 pm CST tape delay.
Well, off for a ride - the usual ride, the same one as yesterday, last week, last month, last year...the Groundhog parcourse - we got very wet yesterday on the ride - Andy Atrain Smith pulled most of the way, Adventure Hog Mark, Terry, Xena (Alice), Pablo, Layton, Henrik, Jimbo - we had a decent crowd at the start, which thinned out as we got wetter and wetter...what a mess, but we got in 60 miles, so that is progress, for me anyway. Looks like no rain today with a modest SE wind. Legs don't fail me now.
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