Lucky 7, or the Tour de France threadLance Armstrong, winner of 7 tours. confirmed.
so, don\'t know if anyone on here cares, but Lance had a kick-ass start to the tour today. After loosing his pedal lock right off the start of the gate in time trials, he not only came in second place (behind another discovery channel member), but he lapped Jan Ullrich (probably his strongest challenger). If anything, this was a big psychological move on armstrongs side. Discovery team is looking pretty damn good. If they can stay ahead of T-mobile, it\'s all over.
Top 5 Individual time trials
1. Dave Zabriskie (USA - CSC) 19km in 20’51"
2. Lance Armstrong (USA - DSC) at 2"
3. Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ - TMO) at 53"
4. George Hincapie (USA - DSC) at 56"
5. Laszlo Bodrogi (HUN - C.A) at 59"
and, way down on the list
157+. Paul Ryan (US) 16 miles in 33:23
I didn\'t feel like figuring out 19k to miles in my head, but I knew it was more than 10 and less than 16 miles. Overall I did 28.6 miles (46.0174 Km) in one hour. I was at least 3 minutes behind the leader by my caluclations for 11.8 miles, and #156 was 3 minutes behind out of 189 riders. Either way you put it, it would be way down on list.
19 k down, 3794.5 to go (11.8 miles down, 2357.9 to go)
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