On Call

Starting today I am on call. This means for the next week I must be near the laptop and blackberry and able to deal with issues promptly. So no riding for me.

In other news, The Tour is over, I think I predicted somewhere in this blog that Contador would win, I think I also predicted that Schleck would do well, I also believe that I predicted a certain American from Austin would not even make the podium. Well the only mistake I made, I didn't think Armstrong would fall apart so miserably. But hey, Armstrong is an old guy now, I guess he got so used to winning. For Lance I will bet it felt like, come to France, ride around for a few weeks, pickup prize, repeat every year, maybe he needed to take a few sips from the bitter draft of defeat to wise up?

I once heard a guy say he expected to finish first in a race he was going to do. Loosing is important if for no other reason than to teach a little modesty. My guy, well he came in 7'th, not bad, but a far cry, by something like eight minutes in a one hour race, from the first place my guy expected. I wonder what happened to his ego?

Toronto will have a municipal election in November, I am trying to decide do I vote for the most (only) bike friendly candidate, or the least bike unfriendly candidate who I think might actually win?