Le Tour is underway once again and it has a couple of new twists. Instead of a prologue time trial to begin, this year’s race begins with a true road race. As pointed out by the VS. television crew, this means that anyone can lead after day one. Speaking of the television crew for VS, [...]
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Critérium du Dauphiné
June 7th, 2011
Chris Doelle I know when Critérium du Dauphiné comes around, it won’t be long until the Tour de France. I just love the fact that so much great world-class cycling is available on television. I can still remember when we were the only family around with satellite access. It was the Wild West of television and we [...]
Le Tour is inching closer
May 19th, 2011
Chris Doelle Not sure why I am so stoked about this year’s Tour de France. I mean, I look forward to it every year – something is different this time around. It could be that my wife has developed in interest in cycling so maybe I am just looking forward to having something else we can share. [...]
A Cycling We Will Go
April 11th, 2011
Chris Doelle That’s right. The cycling has dropped off quite a bit in the last year – it was my second lowest amount of miles ridden in a year since I started keeping track (29 years ago!) While I have already doubles last year’s total, it is far from a great start. To that end, and with [...]
The Tour de 20K continues
January 5th, 2011
Chris Doelle 2010 was filled with a lot of new things – most of them great. One thing it wasn’t filled with was cycling. In fact, it was the second lowest mileage total since I started recording 28 years ago – yes, it has been awhile. I intend for 2011 to not be my greatest mileage total [...]
More Cycling Coolness – Tour Divide!
November 17th, 2010
Chris Doelle I was watching a documentary on the DOC channel called, “Ride the Divide,” about the Tour Divide race. Being a long time fan of cycling and cycling events, I have to say that this one rocks! Similar in mileage to the Tour de France, it has a few aspects of it that make it much [...]




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