Tour of California

[Bluetree]

Some of the names...

Thor Hushovd
Jens Voigt
Michael Rasmussen
Michael Rogers
Ivan Basso
Paolo Bettini
Fabian Cancellara
Dave Zabriskie
George Hincapie
Bobby Julich
Stuart O'Grady
Chris Horner
Luca Paolini
Levi Leipheimer

Full field:
http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com...er-roster.html

[Deanna]

I'll of course be in Santa Rosa for Stage 1 & 2. I've got two "bike race" newbies I will be turning into fans. One of them, my sister, is already half way there. I took her to the Team BMC launch party and she's already picked out her favorite --she mentioned something about having him autograph a body part. We'll also be handing bikes back at the valet bike parking on Monday. I may make it down for stage 3, but that's iffy at this point.


Edited to ask: Has anybody seen a roster with bib numbers yet?

[Running Mommy]

Sorry girls, I've been sick... It's been a week!
Anyway, we are flying up late tonight. I wanted to go to the prologue but also need to see my ailing great aunt. She is a treasure to me (and the town of sonoma as well) and I know we won't have much more time with her.
I would like to go out to coleman valley rd, but I know my husband will want to be in Santa Rosa to cruise around the booths and such.
We have to hit the road by 3:30 for the airport, so we'll pretty much watch them finish and run for the car.
Anyhoo, ya'll know what I look like. I'll be sure to wear my IMAZ finishers hat so you could recognize me by that.
Can't wait to get some good cycling mojo!! After the week I had I NEED it!!!

[SadieKate]

[DrBadger]

OK SadieKate-
We must have been standing right next to eachother at the CSC tent, sorry I didn't see you. Your photo is much better than mine! I will get some of my photos posted later today. Spent a little bit of time down at the start, and then my friends and I climbed the Filbert St. steps to the top of Telegraph hill, so I have quite a few photos from just before the 100m mark. Most of them have very blurry riders going past, but I got a nice one of DZ walking down the steps after racing. Sigh....

It was a ton of fun, that is for sure, and man those guys can climb!

Will post photos later.
E.

[IFjane]

One word - VCR.

Ok, that's not really a word.

Doesn't matter - I don't have one....old technology, you know

Oh well....I'll find out via Velonews....

[DrBadger]

If you go to the official site (www.amgentourofcalifornia.com) they have live tracking. You can watch it on a map, watch live video, or listen to live audio. YOu might still be able to get away with the live audio at work I think that versus will have video highlights on their web site after the broadcast too.

Good luck getting your fix :-)

[slinkedog]

Great pic of DZ, SK! WOW!

We are going on Wednesday to the finish. Apparently they have (at all the finishes) a big screen where you can watch the entire race and then see the finish. So we're going to take Jonathan, as he wants to try to get autographs. I told him it was unlikely, but we'll try.

We can take the lightrail downtown from near our house, so it shouldn't be too bad getting down there. Some of our friends from France are in town right now, and they're going to come, too.

Do the riders hang out at their team's tents after the finish?

[bikerchick68]

Hey all! Haven't been here for a couple weeks... super busy... but my friend from Mavic called and offered me a spot again this year in one of the Mavic cars for stage 6!!! So if you're watching stage 6 I'll be the brunette riding shotgun...SO excited!!! See ya all there... I gotta say I'll be glad to be climbing Balcom Canyon in a CAR not the bike

[li10up]

Doesn't matter - I don't have one....old technology, you know

Oh well....I'll find out via Velonews....

Old technology for an old person (me).

We can't even get cable where I live! I want us to switch satellite companies just so we can get a DVR.

Wonder why VS. had an hour of commentary instead of showing the riders? I don't think I saw a bit of footage on Jason Donald who led most of the way in the prologue.

[jobob]

I don't think I saw a bit of footage on Jason Donald who led most of the way in the prologue.

They had cameras on the well-known riders, and the riders who were expected to do well. Jason Donald surprised everyone.

[jobob]

OK SadieKate-
We must have been standing right next to eachother at the CSC tent, sorry I didn't see you. Your photo is much better than mine!

I was there too, in my oh-so-subtle blazing red Amici Veloci jacket.

[snapdragen]

I was there too, in my oh-so-subtle blazing red Amici Veloci jacket.

Damn! Did you at least try to throw yourself in front of a TV camera? AV needs publicity!

[maillotpois]

Great DZ picture!! We got a beauty of Paolo Bettini signing in - and a buch of super close up ones of folks at the 150m to go at Coit Tower.

Now sun and wind burned from being on Coleman Valley most of the day. Saw aka Kim as we were driving back! That AV jacket stands out! I was wearing my buff as an earwarmer! It was cold up there.

What a great crowd on Coleman - and it was just great to see these super stars climbing one of my local roads!!!

Meeting a friend tomorrow to carpool up to Trinity Grade. It will be fun to see this. Haven't yet done that climb, but we are incorporating it into our team's Death Ride training so it will be good to at least drive it. (Can't ride any of this because school's out for the week and the PP isn't up to the climbs quite yet...)

[SadieKate]

Give a report on Trinity. We've got a little group riding to Cardiac tomorrow, the 2nd KOM, but if we'd had more time I wanted to ride Trinity.