19.8 miles. Did Academy to Greenway to Starbux. Back to Haynes Br to Publix. Did shopping then home. Later to Locos and back w/ Brit.
I need to take Blue into Performance to have them look at....well I guess the cranks....they have been creaking an awful lot, and its starting to make me nervous.

No miles this week. Well, I had to fly to Fla. to visit my mother so there you go. Did notice that the cyclists in Sarasota are a lot more reckless, but this may the difference between those who ride for fun and those who ride because they don't have a car.
In fact a cyclist was killed this weekend down there.....at 1:00 in the morning.
In other bike news, Sastre won the Tour. I missed the last 4 races so I could only keep up with reading the Live Updates on the BBC, which is a poor substitute. HAd a good time watching the earlier races on Vs. while I was home. Looks like the doping shit may finally be starting to get behind us.
My Fantasy Tour team on Performance Bikes had a total of 197 points:3253 out of 3842 Teams. This may have had some thing to do with the fact that I picked LEIPHEIMER as my big pick for my team with out taking in the fact that he wasn't racing this year because he is on Astana....duh.

8.1 miles. This was just from running around doing errands, biking home and realizing I forgot something and biking back.
But that's 68.8 miles for this rather arbitrary week!

3.4 miles. B and I just went up to Loco's for dinner and back. Nice cool night, too.

17.2 miles. Wills to Academy to Webb Br to GW. GW to Starbux. Then Haynes Br home.
Saw a young deer walk out to the middle of the path. It heard me coming, but didn't think to look behind him/her until I was almost on top of it, whereupon it dashed off, of course.

Well, Riccardo Ricco is the third racer so far to get caught doping with EPO on the Tour De France this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/7511518.stm
and his team has pulled out of the race.
That just sux because after the last few years of scandals, I thought that this was behind us. Hopefully these guys will be the exception and everybody else is doing their best the natural way...or at least the legal way.
As a Swiftian viewpoint, I think that they *should* have some sort of stage race done by racers who do nothing *but* dope, as long as they promote it for what it would be...a freak show. Then they could lay odds on whose heart would explode first.

19.8 miles. Old Milton to Kimbell Br. Up GW and then back down. Didnt stop at Starbux this time as I rode back to the HAynes Br. access and up to Sweet Tomatoes to meet Brit for lunch. Then across the street to Best Buy. After continued up Haynes Br to Milton and back home.
I would have ridden a different way, but its voting day and it was right on the way.
Nature-wise I saw two rabbits and a deer on the GW. I also got stung by something ( for the first time since I was 14-15)on the inner right arm right below the armpit and it still smarts something fierce.

20.3 miles. Old Milton to Roswell St to Main to Devore to Haynes Bridge to Westside pkwy to Kimbell Br to meet Brit at Verizon, North Point and Kimbell. From there to Kimbell Br to Green way, up to Webb Br then Down to the other end. Starbux. Back Greenway to Haynes Br, up to Old Milton to home.
I probably won't do this particular route, up Westside that is, because it was a wrong turn. I meant to ride up Northside to Kimbell Br. No worries, tho.
Finally starting to get comfortable with top gear, using it more and more even on the slight rises and a couple of the bridges on the GW.
Saw a black two+ foot snake sunning itself on the GW, pretty sure it was a garter, but didn't stop to check.

Paraphrase of a commercial seen while watching 2008 Tour De France:
While scenes of cyclists crash play a voice:
"Get in your car. Speed up to 55 miles per hour. Strip down to your underwear. Jump out.
"That's what it's like to crash in a professional bike race."

16.5 miles. Academy, Webb Br. Greenway. Haynes Br. to home. Rained some, but missed the worst of it.