It’s Giro d’Italia time. Time to listen/watch the race in the morning via web stream while listening to what I imagine to be small, funny-looking european men shout at me in Italian.
This year is going to be a crazy race. Im not going to go into any predictions or analysis of the race. I’ll leave that to Sonny and Jonah. Okay okay, a little one: I put my money on Basso, but am rooting for Savoldelli (il Faaaaallllcoooooooo!!!).
Then there is this photo from last year, of Danilo DiLuca rocking the Maglia Rosa last year:
He just stopped riding in the middle of a stage to take in the view of Florence. Awesome.
And on an unrelated note, I drank way too much with the rest of the Super Geil Drecksaü Boys 3000™ last night, and as a result, am all wonky today. Can’t wait to go home and go back to sleep.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
What area of town do you live in? How do you get your race bike to the Levee? I now live in the lower garden district and I feel like if I ride my bike all the way to Audubon on St.Charles I’m going to break it.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
We both live in the marigny/bywater. The trip to the levee is a scary one. I usually take esplenade to carrolton all the way up.
I am glad Lara talked me out of hangin with y’all last night. I fought it but bowed out which was probably a good decision.
May 8th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Brock - I ride down to the levee. It’s only about 7 miles, and I just relax and enjoy it.
Also serves as a good warm-up/cool-down.
As for the route there and back, it depends. I’ll either use St. Charles, Prytania, or Tchoupitoulas.
May 8th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Sonny - yeah, it was probably smart to come along. It was fun, but getting up this morning sucked big time.
And you url in the comment field point to basshos.com - I fixed it, but you may want to change it in your form field.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Hmm, maybe I’ll just have to try it one of these days. It’s at my parents’ house in mandeville (I’ve been playing musical apartments lately) and last time I got on it instead of my commuter it felt great.
I miss the levee.