2009 Tour de France – Top 10 Quick Hits
Posted in Cycling on Jul 27th, 2009
Posted by top 10 thoughts from this year’s Tour de France on my cycling blog.
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
Good Music: Jane’s Addiction, “Been Caught Stealing”
Posted in Music on Jul 17th, 2009
Easily my favorite version of this song.
Check out the not-so-exciting results of my first bike race on my cycling sub-blog. (Warning – for serious geeks only).
The first part of the Tour de France is over – the first portion of the race generally lasts up to the first rest day, which was Monday. It was a fascinating first week – lots of drama, an amazing time trial competition, Lance Armstrong just missing the yellow jersey by less than a second, [...]
<UPDATE> Well, my official result is in – my time was 31:38, which doesn’t sound so bad. Until I realized that the median time was 28:57. And, my rank was 8,321, out of 11,711 runners. So I was in the bottom 30%… The winner, btw, ran the course in 16:25. In other words – he [...]
Wimbledon 2009: Quick Hits
Posted in Sports on Jul 7th, 2009
1) The 2008 Wimbledon final may have been the best tennis match I’ve ever seen. The 2009 version wasn’t quite up to the same standard when it comes to quality of play – 2008 offered far more variety of play, longer rallies, great shot-making etc. while 2009 was more vintage Wimbledon, with big serving and [...]
If you don’t win, but you tried your best… You’re still a loser.
As an avid reader, I have learned to enjoy slightly long commutes to and from work. While our house at the moment is actually a bit far from the office, the walk to the station isn’t that bad, and the 40min commute is straight in – and the biggest selling point is, I *always* get [...]
When the MBH and I learned we were headed for Ol’ Blighty one of the things we wanted to take advantage of was the culture. While Tokyo isn’t without its art society, it obviously isn’t near as ambitious or as accessible as in London or New York. I actually listen to classical music on occasion [...]