Who is Michael Brown?

My Freedom

Sunday Ride Aug 1

Weather forecast poor. Kinglake. Roadbike. Leaving at 7. If its raining will be driving to Kangaroo Ground and riding the mountain bike over the Col de Skyline and beyond instead.

http://www.sportsscientists.com/

3 interesting stories/analysis of power during the Tour

http://www.eastbay.com/

Yankee site, the prices for compression gear may be useful.

Topbike Tour

Desmondo, Connor and Luke 4 k's from the top of The Tourmelet (now fondly referred to as "Teddy"). Des and Luke having completed the climb and Connor still with som work to do. Of course, they started hours before me.

Where is Wally??

Where are the Photos???

Let them ride cakes

Holidays In The Sun

Look SLKG 481 Laurent Jalabert and the view when i turned the hairpin to see Minerve, Languedoc

Greetings from the Pyrenees

Bonjour,

Greetings from Le Tour from Connor and the Muppet!

Just finished our third day of riding through the south of France. A short warm up ride on day 1, about 90km's yesterday including the last 10k's of the course. Connor unleashed Gonz on the sprint for a narrow win to the Muppet! Bumped in to Luke and his entourage in Revel - fair to say he was hanging out to get his hire bike. Did about 100km's today including wathcing a stage sprint sprint in Mirepoix.

Weather beatiful, food great.

We will send some happy snaps next time just to rub it in a bit more!

Get me to the Pyrenees on time.

"I wasn't surprised that I couldn't stay with Contador on this climb. Bjarne [Riis] warned me today that I shouldn't panic when I wasn't able to stay with Alberto when he attacked because the climb suited him much more. I think I did pretty good by losing only ten seconds.”

Yeh, "the climb suited the [canary] more than me?" He forgot to add "...because it was uphill!"

If he doesn't get 60+ seconds more before the TT day it'll be the canary's again and Shrek can head back to the swamp.

Saturday 17 Sunday 18

Stage 10

Somehow I got back by 10.30

I Just Ran Over a Hamster!!

I could see my Tour de France dreams disappearing right in front of my eyes as The Hamster failed to negotiate the Camberwell tram depot tram tracks right in front of me. I braked hard, but to no avail. The severity of my attempts to stop ( I really did try Joe!!) probably only deepened the imprint of my black chillies on the Hamster's back. Unlike Tour de France riders who have failed to successfully negotiate stray labradoors, by some miracle I stayed upright after flying over the splayed prostrate Hamster!

Joe, I hope you are OK mate and next time we will skip the Chapel Street lessons on how to ride in tram tracks!

Bored on the 4th of July