Holy smokes. It’s hot in Bend. I’m at the Cascade Cycling Classic doing some race coverage and this shindig is going off. The mens field is stacked. (STACKED) The women’s field is stacked. And the pace so far has been pretty off the charts. (The men rode today’s race 30 minutes faster than last year) Stage winner [...]

I guess now I know what soap-addicted housewives feel like when they’re denied the latest episode of their favorite daytime drama.  I mean – if someone took my tour away this year, I think I’d seriously lose my mind. This shit is good.  And, up until today, it was good in the good way: exciting breaks, [...]

My schedule finally caught up me and knocked me flat on my ass with illness. But, if I wasn’t over here sleeping like a zombie, I’d be at the Alpenrose Velodrome, cheering like a maniac. The AVC is going to be the big show in town tonight: the weather is ridiculously perfect and the stage is [...]

I fell in love with Thomas Voeckler in 2004. He was riding in the Alps, I was working at an ad agency.  Needless to say, it didn’t work out.  But we tried.  We gave it everything we had. He was in yellow and it blinded me because I wore black and had platinum hair.  But he climbed!  [...]

No TV to catch the tour?  Refuse to pay that obnoxious cable fee? No worries! St Honore Boulangerie (NW Portland, Lake Oswego) – Watch it Live! St. Honore has been showing the Tour live for years and continues its tradition this year.  While you’re there, be sure to scarf down some pastries.  Eating pastries during the Tour at [...]

I pre-wrote most of Cav’s win this morning. As an athlete writing about athletes, that felt a little creepy.  It’s well-known that I have some superstitious tendencies (Red Sox fan, anyone?) so I wondered if I might be writing the English Rocket straight out of the stage victory. Of course, I didn’t. Team Columbia-HTC rode to perfection, [...]