Tour of Missouri

[stacie]

my husband and son are heading up. They'll watch from St Louis on Sunday. Hope to get tickets for the cards on Saturday. No luck so far.

[Aggie_Ama]

DH and I were trying to find a way to go up there, but he just can't get time off.

I just saw the report of today - GO BIG GEORGE!!!!!

[singletrackmind]

Oooh, but poor former Missourian Dan Schmatz
( http://danschmatz.missingsaddle.com/ )....is out of the race. Sure hope he recovers quickly and well.



....so will it be stuffed armadillos instead of lions for the ToM?

[singletrackmind]

Oh yeah, watched it live today via http://www.justin.tv/avflive
a little jumpety but better than nothing.

[uforgot]

I watched it too, (the last half hour) and today it included sound!

[Melalvai]

I saw them come in to Columbia. I'd been watching it online and the breakaway group had a 4 min lead. I went down the street to watch them come in to town, and there was no breakaway group! I read later the rest of the pack caught up because the headwind finally took its toll on the leaders. Sure went past fast! I got a picture http://www.kemenel.org/melalvai/journal.

By the time I got back home and online, it was over. I kind of wanted to see them climb Rock Quarry. This is a road I've been taking daily lately, it's narrow and twisty but has one heck of a hill. I get up to 35 or 36 mph going DOWN that hill without trying. I go UP it every morning. These guys went up that hill.

[singletrackmind]

We saw them today on Schleursberg Road, 3rd king of the mountains spot. Really cool, rode up it on the tandem with the kid and an hour later they FLEW up it, first the break away, then the peloton. Sweet!

I'd hazard to say they were a wee bit faster than myself.