What to do now

[crazybikinchic]

I am a little bummed and glad at the same time.
I am bummed that the Tour is over. No more watching cycling while getting ready for work, getting home from work, you know, any time cycling was on:D . I was hoping that Hincapie would do better.
On the other hand, I am glad the Landis won. He fought for the yellow and deserved it. This was an exciting year for the Tour. So many changes. So, what do I watch now?

[dachshund]

Uh... women's basketball is still on, although not often. Football should start in another month or so. :rolleyes:

[velogirl]

Get the DVD. I've never even thought about owning previous TdF DVDs but I can't wait to get this one. Such an emotional, super-human, true grit, touching three weeks.

[Eden]

You'll have about a month to wait but - La Vuelta!!

it won't be on OLN this year (just highlights), but you will still be able to follow it online

[KnottedYet]

Where do you get the DVD?

[RoadRaven]

We bought a bundle of blank DVDs and recorded... we have all the half hour packages on three DVDs (in sequence, of course)

We also have the first TT on one DVD, one of the Pyrenese stages, and one of the Alps stages...

We meant to do it last year but we missed some of the highlights packages...

Great to have when its raining and you have to ride indoors...

Yours smugly
Raven

[slinkedog]

World Cycling Productions always has DVD's of the Tour available. Don't know how long it takes to get them in once the Tour is over, though. www.worldcycling.com. There may be others that are better... don't know. Anyone?

[yellow]

What do we watch now? Nothing! Go ride! :p (OK, if it's too hot, maybe the trainer with any of the TdF DVDs from the last 8 years!)

I haven't had television for 16 years now. Sure, I'd love to watch things like cycling and the Olympics, but I survive OK without it. I'm afraid that if I did have it, I wouldn't ride. I'd be too busy learning how to cook fabulous meals and watching things like Arsenic and Old Lace!

[margo49]

Yeah,
I am also feeling The Generally Agreed Upon Grown-up Real World Circumstantial Reality biting at the back of my neck now the Tour is over.

Awaiting the Vuelta...

[Kalidurga]

World Cycling Productions always has DVD's of the Tour available. Don't know how long it takes to get them in once the Tour is over, though. www.worldcycling.com. There may be others that are better... don't know. Anyone?

Excellent link, slinkedog (any relation to spazzdog?), thank you for posting it! Now, do I want to get one of those Landis t-shirts or not...?

For the past two years, the only race I've followed religiously is the TdF. Does the Vuelta get many of the big names? Anyone know if the team rosters have been set for that one yet?

[bcipam]

Thank goodness the Tour is done... I was late to work almost every day for 3 weeks. Now I need to buckle down and get catch up!!! :rolleyes:

[chickwhorips]

is it me or did the tour seem to go even faster this year? i can't believe its over.

[Veronica]

I finally got my front yard weeded, when it was still below 80 degrees out. It's now 90 degrees in the shade here.

V.

[mtbdarby]

$90 -yikes!:eek: Someone help me justify this, lol. I don't have cable and I missed the entire thing.....is it worth the ching?

[RoadRaven]

Really missing it...
Watched the last stage into Paris twice last night
How sad is that?
:(

Any of you gals wanna bike over to my house (well, you might have to be duathletes cause it will involve a load of swimming for alot of you as well)...
but if any of you wanna come on over, you can watch it with me...

[bcipam]

Don't know if any of you have an ON DEMAND feature with your cable. One is offered with mine and for the next month, all the Tour stages will be available to watch at one's leisure (uner Sports and Fitness - OLN - The Tour). I missed a few (due to sillinest like work and all) so will probably go back and watch what I missed.

[KnottedYet]

Oh, man, I'll have to see if my friend with cable will let me order the on-demand for Stage 17. I missed that one! (I was housesitting for her for most of the other stages and got to see them, but not the all-important stage 17!)

[crazybikinchic]

my friend and I are doing most of our rides in the morning, otherwise since I'm in Texas with all the heat, I can't go. There is only one time that I will gladly get up at 6am and that is when I'm going to ride my bike. We like to laugh at all the people who have to be at work at 8am.;)

[crazycanuck]

What to do de do..

Well here are some ideas-invent a biking language, bike to the library the long way, turn your tv off until next july, bike as much as you can, volunteer for road biking/triathlon/mtn biking etc events, find some headwind & learn to love it, find hills & make them your friend and last but not least SMILE....

Non biking things-find the unkown coffee & book shops in your town/state-use the lonely planet..., find all the unkown or underground papers, look for a good book by an unknown author at www.mostlyfiction.com, listen to b sides from your favorite band....

Off to de do deo deoooooo..be bop be bop...shebang shebang, shall lalala shebang shebang..

c

[chickwhorips]

find some headwind & learn to love it, find hills & make them your friend and last but not least SMILE....

i got the SMILE :D part down, but how in the world do you learn to love headwinds (2nd windiest city here so there is always a head wind and usually at a good kt) and making hills your friend.... thats asking alot. they beat me more than i beat them.

[Cassandra_Cain]

i got the SMILE :D part down, but how in the world do you learn to love headwinds (2nd windiest city here so there is always a head wind and usually at a good kt) and making hills your friend.... thats asking alot. they beat me more than i beat them.

I've made progress in the seemingly quixotic quest to make hills and headwinds (we have both in ample amounts) my friends...

It is just one of those attitude things that has a subtle effect. Most people I figure, make progress, albeit slowly, with hills so long as they stick with it.

I was just experimenting the other day with my HRM and noticed that while sitting at home, clenching my teeth/grimacing/etc would cause a small but noticeable change in heart rate. I figure the same is true of one's approach to hill riding.

Don't ask me to ride in the dead of winter though - I haven't psyched myself out enough to do that :D