timc wrote:Great run today! It was nice to meet Dave today, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the week.

Likewise Tim, nice to meet you.

Tim is very modest not to mention he had one of the fine performances of the day. Great job.

Good luck Tim, Heather, Robin and any lurkers! See you Sunday or Friday!

Thanks Hezzy! I agree that Stage 5 is a tough way to start. I actually had that in mind in my Sport debut last year and I checked the times of comparable runners from the prior year results so that I could pace myself evenly on laps. But with the course change from 700m of elevation gain in 2012 to ...

hezzy wrote:Hoping to start posting here regularly again...

Great! Are we in for a world of hurt?

Perhaps more entrants by price increase Thursday - but you will hold your own regardless!

Phil Liggitt has never said "Frank Schleck" without immediately saying "...Champion of Luxumberg."

It was quite the exciting stage! Does Contador really have a fractured leg? I missed the part where they gave the reason for him abandoning (other than he had a knee injury that required surgery). Also, they seemed to dispel the earlier belief that he'd been hit by a bike that fell off a team car a...

Lots going on in today's stage. If you are PVRing, be sure to watch the 99K to go through 94K to go, there is something there not to fast-forward through. Thanks for the tip! And I'm going to stay off social media until after I've had a chance to watch the stage so that it's not spoiled. Be sure al...

Lots going on in today's stage. If you are PVRing, be sure to watch the 99K to go through 94K to go, there is something there not to fast-forward through.

By the way, we live in Waterloo (less than 2 km from Laurier if you're staying there), and we have a big backyard and a charcoal barbecue. So please feel free to drop by, hang around, whatever. I can cook some burgers, steaks, or smoke some ribs if there's interest. I'll be looking for an excuse to...

I'm a maniac (after I completed Sulphur in May) but never got the shirt.... :( This is why I mentioned, Robin - I saw your name when I filtered the Maniac listing on their website to see who from Ontario was being silly also. I did the 2 in 14 days and 3 in 90 (EnddurRun, PEC, Toronto Waterfront) l...

Awesome...I'm there Friday and Saturday night! Looks like Stage 7 will be 10% Marathon Maniac participants so consider wearing the ugly yellow Sunday and we'll get a cheesy picture for their newsletter...unless that sounds creepy. I chatted with Jack Lee after the race last year but was not a membe...

jonovision_man wrote:...The cobbles were a nice early treat though.

Agreed. As an avid cyclocrosser, you'll be happy to know this stage made me a Lars Boom fan. Love his name most of all but also how he pulled away from the yellow jersey late with his face covered in mud.

What a fiercely entertaining stage... I usually skip through stuff on PVR but I couldn't today, it was amazing end to end. I am enjoying watching the Tour. As I watch primarily team sports, which are 1 to 3 games a week, it is great to watch something that progresses more quickly than I can keep up...

Defending champ Chris Froome just abandoned his tour. No camera captured the crash but looks to be a fractured arm from a wet road wipeout.

jonovision_man wrote:No Ryder at the Tour.

While there is no Canadian within 15 minutes of thelead, I am hoping this dude can save the world:

http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/r ... -jack.html

So who all is in?

I see on Strava that Tim is getting good miles in. I see the same for Robin on Twitter. It is going well for me this summer as well.

Who else is in? Singles? Running Mania Relay Team?

I'm still hung-over from the Tour de Suisse and Dauphine! :) Lots of good racing already this year, and on TV no less ... wonderful. I've been watching some of the coverage. Strangely I find it very intriguing at times. I think Phil Liggitt (if that is the name of the play-by-play bloque) could mak...

turd ferguson wrote: I don't know what the f*** a "Little Debbies" is

I believe it is a handheld cake.

Robinandamelia wrote:I booked 2 nights at Laurier (200 King St)!! Not too far off now.

I'm there for a night here and there through the week. Including Friday night if there is Running Maniacs carb-loading going down...

... there is likely a point where an individual isn't suffering from an eating disorder but finds further weight loss negatively impacts their speed. This has been reported by professional cyclists... I am hardly skinny but have experienced this. I spent most of my adult life at 205-210 pounds and ...

The scientific rigour in running/cycling/lifestyle magazines is generally piss poor, but I don't think one rather poorly written article negates the idea that carrying around extra weight (fat especially) slows a person down. Agreed. Like Victoria the Blogger, I just hate the deliberate overstateme...

Here is a blog post that puts the weight loss must, hyped by running magazines when they are not publishing a spring, summer, fall or winter shoe guide, into perspective:

http://obligatorytriblog.blogspot.ca/20 ... -myth.html

Effective immediately, the IAAF silver-label Ottawa Marathon will be known as the Scotiabank...

Silly.

Agreed it was not fixed...

Jwolf wrote:I don't buy it for a second. And if were really fixed you'd expect to see Flannagan and/or Hall taking the glory.

...but Flanigan could not have taken the glory even in the conspiracy theory situation of 25 or more runners in on something, she had bonked.