http://jrees.net/wordpress John - cycling, running Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The "Fake". In a bike race, the people who often win are protected for most of the stage by their teammates.  These teammates ride in front of their leader, saving as much as 20% of the protected rider's effort in the wind.  They bring bottles from the team car and chase ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=25 The "Wait" As I mentioned yesterday, there is an unwritten code amongst racers to wait if the leader has had difficulty.  This policy isn't always followed and the circumstances and tactics of a race can make it impossible or even unsafe to do so..  However, in stage 13 of the 2001 ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=24 The "Bag" As I mentioned yesterday, racers in the Tour de France do not stop to eat.  They get food handed to them from team cars or in a designated 'feed zone'.  In these zones, team assistants hand the racers cloth bags full of food, gel and water bottles.  These bags ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=23 The "Bonk" Stages in the Tour de France are tough.  They often take over 5 hours to complete and the riders never stop.  No time outs.  No water breaks.  If you need to eat or drink, you need to do it on the bike.  Team cars, riding at the back of ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=22 The "Gift" When Lance returned to the Tour in 2000 as the defending champion, there was a lot being written by the press and other riders that his 1999 win was a fluke.  The pundits mentioned the absence of the past two winners, German Jan Ullrich and Italian Marco Pantani, as ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=21 The Tour de France is starting July 3 with the prologue in Rotterdam.  Once again, Lance Armstrong will be joining 197 other riders in the 3 week stage race circling France, with forays into the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. Lance has already won the tour 7 times, and managed to finish ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=20 Come out to Durham Saturday night, July 18th and join me and other riders participating in the “Bull Moon Ride”. The ride is a low speed night time ramble through downtown Durham.  It’s a fund raiser for a great cause, the Habitat for Humanity of Durham.  There are two options: 8 mile ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=18 You don’t have to be a cycling fan to appreciate how Lance Armstrong is using social media to get his message out.  A relative newcomer to twitter, Lance has nearly 900K followers.  He is only following 73 but nonetheless, he engages in daily conversions with his followers.  His responses can ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=16 I am posting this because Jeff asked me to J   The rules for this post are the following: 1. Please post this on your blog in its entirety 2. Bold or underline your uses for Twitter 3. Add the tag twitter101 to the post 4. Make sure you link back to both ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=15 This afternoon, a storm moved through the area, and part of the spectacle were some great rainbows.  As I noticed the reports of the rainbows from those I follow on twitter, I did a quick search on twitter and easily yielded 15 local captures of the rainbows.  Below are the ... http://jrees.net/wordpress/?p=14