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AZ School Works Interviews Munoz Jr. and Loredo on Roosevelt School District Receivership (http://ping.fm/bb0vl)

Hillary obama unite now on cnn

heading to Home Depot to pick up parts for my malfunctioning ice maker, gotta have ice in TX

Friday morning at Jo's

It’s Friday morning at Jo’s and there are a couple of dozen folks enjoying the chill air.  Tom, with the green bandana, is sweeping up aound the place and extolling the virtues of the new espresso machine, the La Marzocco.  We’ll have the scoop on this in an upcoming blog episode.  It’s a nice view from the Jo’s front deck of Amy’s Ice Cream, Zen restaurant, and the Hotel San Jose.  Tom cranks up the ipod and the music resumes.

We found 63 photos on flickr matching the search phrase Jo’s Coffee.

Jo’s has a MySpace page at myspace.com/joshotcoffee and soon there will be a guide to MySpace on Jo’s blog.  What would you like to see on Jo’s blog, send us an article or post something in our comments. 

 

Tags: myspace, flickr, Friday, soco, espresso, austin, texas, xl, joscoffee, cafe, life

Goodnight

A little comedy at home with Paul and Dot.

Team Hotel San Jose's Chris Brewer video podcast

Watch the video podcast at http://touroftexas.com/podcasts/sjhcycle.mpg Chris Brewer, Discovery Channel “primary journalist”, does a video podcast on the outlook for this year’s Tour de France, the Discovery team with Ivan Basso, the Flying Forehead, and his Team Hotel San Jose. Barry Lee and Todd Reid head up Team San Jose. Today is Barry’s 42nd birthday and the team is showning pedaling off to South Austin for a 3 hour ride. “The Discovery team is looking great with Ivan Basso, says Chris. Lance is riding with the team and grooming Basso as his successor. We takea look at the Madone 5.9 SL with the Powercontrol V with “more information than a man needs to know”. We also talk with several other Team San Jose members, which numbers over 300 members. The interview takes place in front of Downtown Jo’s, which is the site of tonight’s moveon.org event and showing of “An Inconvenient Truth”. from http://teamhotelsanjose.com

Team Hotel San Jose is a new kind of racing team and sports club, led by athletes who are dedicated to serving the community by working with disadvantaged and at-risk youth, developing the skills of beginning and intermediate cyclists, and cultivating the most incredible regional racing team you've ever seen. The core team members are a motivated group of professional and ex-professional cyclists, cycling enthusiasts, and triathletes, who ride with respect for all, regardless of experience. We welcome road cyclists and mountain bikers, runners and multi-sport athletes, men and women, and girls and boys.

birthdayparty

Jan and Neil Cronk put on a birthday party for about half a dozen folks, me included, at their home in North Austin. Neil is a talented painter whose work appears at many restaurants and galleries around town. Here's today's video podcast of that event.  Shown below is the paiting of Neil’s that hangs in our living room in Cedar Creek.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

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Travel Channel shows Chasing Lance

Chasing Lance film debuts on Travel Channel Thursday Dec 22 at 7 pm CST
Lance Amstrong News on our Blog - The "docureality" show produced by the Discovery Networks Travel Channel will air on Thursday night, Dec 22 on channel 58 (Grande Communications) and channel 33 (Time Warner).Many local Austin media outlets carried coverage of this event. On the last day of the Tour de France several thousand people showed up to cheer Lance on and sign several giant yellow cards that the Outdoor Life Network brought to the event.
Here's the email from producer Bill Delano about the event Hey Ya´ll~ Tune in tomorrow night for my first film, "Chasing Lance: a Fans Story"!!! Its a great show, was a thrilling adventure and will forever stand as testament to what two friends can do with a camcorder, computer, and a dream. Here's the TV Guide sum up: Join five Americans on an emotion packed thrill ride as they chase the Tour all around France supporting their hero in his seventh and final ride. These are true fanatics who do far more than vacation, they redefine what it means to be a true Fan. Let everyone know and check it out on the Travel Channel on Thursday, December 22 at 8 and 11pm EST (7 and 10 pm CST).

The Austin Chronicle: News: Naked City

The Austin Chronicle: News: Naked City

When is "affordable housing" not entirely affordable? When the housing development in question is called "Spring." On July 29, developers Robert Barnstone and Perry Lorenz (of the famed high-end Nokonah at Ninth and Lamar) and Larry Warshaw (of the decidedly more affordable Eastside Pedernales Lofts) announced their plans for a new 36-story, 200-plus-unit condo development at Third and Bowie called Spring.

According to the development team, the project is unique because it will be built on a relatively small, 6,500-square-foot "floor plate" – as opposed to the more common 16,000 to 20,000 square feet – in order to keep costs down.

"For the first time, living in downtown Austin will be a real option for teachers, firefighters, young professionals, and middle-income families – not just the very wealthy," Lorenz said.

Of course, one might argue that living downtown was entirely affordable for all of the aforementioned before high-end projects like the Nokonah began poking up all over town.

Although Lorenz and company may call Spring "affordable," for the rest of us, whether the development will be the way for the pushed-out to get back in is a matter of debate:

The so-called affordable units will cost "around" $250K, with some under $200K, Lorenz said. Back to the drawing board, boys. –

Jordan Smith

Lance's next riding partner: Bush

Lance's next riding partner: Bush

Lance's next riding partner: Bush

August 15, 2005

President George W. Bush is getting plenty of bike time during his ranch vacation and next week he'll hit the trails with seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

Armstrong told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that he'll travel to Crawford, Texas, on Saturday to ride with the president around Bush's ranch.

"It's a dream scenario for me," Armstrong said. "Now that President Bush doesn't run anymore, he rides his mountain bike fanatically. People wonder why he stays at the ranch so long, it might be the mountain bike trails."

Bush has become an avid biker in the last couple of years, after a knee injury forced him to give up his jogging routine.

"Like a lot of baby boomers, my knees gave out," Bush explained to seven journalists who accompanied him on a two-hour ride Saturday. "And I believe that mountain biking is going to be an outlet for a lot of people my age. I'm 59, and people are going to realize you get as much aerobic exercise -- if not more on the mountain bike -- without being hobbled."

Bush said he prefers mountain biking to road biking, where riders often shave their legs and wear Lycra shorts. "There are certain things that age brings with it, and not wearing the form-fitting Lycra shorts is one of them, if you know what I mean," Bush joked with the reporters.

Mix 94.7 raises over 400,000 for Cancer

JB and Sandy on Mix 94.7 FM Radio raised over $400,000 for the Kelly Davidson Cancer Research Activity Wing at the Dell Hospital over the weekend.  Lance called in to the show which was livecast at two of Austin's biggest malls (Barton Creek and Lakeline).  Way to go, JB, Sandy and the group!

Sunday TV news shows

Sunday TV news shows

ABC's "This Week" - Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong

Windsor Tribune - Windsor man spots Lance Armstrong

Windsor Colorado Tribune -
Windsor man spots Lance Armstrong

Windsor man spots Lance Armstrong
By T.M. FASANO
Posted on Friday, August 05 @ 08:03:07 PDT
The lights were out in Windsor, but Zach Mitchell knows whom he saw — the greatest cyclist in Tour de France history.

Mitchell, 21, a 2001 Windsor High School graduate, said he’s not crazy. Mitchell said he is 90 percent sure that the man he saw riding a bicycle in the rain at 9:30 a.m. Thursday was none other than Lance Armstrong.

Mitchell said the man looked just like Armstrong, the winner of seven straight Tour de France races.

“He looked right at me,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said the man he thinks was Armstrong had no body fat, was wearing a yellow jersey (not that yellow jersey, though) and spiffy Nike cyclist shoes and gave the thumbs up to the curious people in the five vehicles who slowed down to gawk.

wannabe bike girl

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why cycling won't last in the states and race

It's been one week (I know, there's a song that starts like that) since the Tour de France ended and the traffic on my site has dropped significantly. It just the way I expect cycling has dropped from the news and the minds of 90% of the people in the US.

Why? Because now that it's over, most people think that cycling is over (out of ignorance) or, if they don't, they don't care enough now that Armstrong isn't racing.

It's a depressing thought, but not a surprising one. Soccer hasn't taken off in the states, either. Probably for similar reasons. Just as Americans know who Armstrong is, they know who Beckham is and that's about it. If the American isn't winning everything, they won't care about the sport (sad, but true). No matter how good the American cyclists are, they will not even come close to bringing in the same size audience as Armstrong. Even if one of them wins the tour, it won't matter. People will remember Armstrong and that will be enough for them.

It will not be enough for those of us living in the States who love more than Armstrong, who have gotten beyond the hype and into the sport. Sure, we'll be grateful to Armstrong for being famous and causing OLN to carry cycling. But we are happy (as is much of Europe) that he is gone. Cycling will be the sport we love again (or wish we knew before), the Tour will be like the other two Grand Tours and life will be spent living on the edge of 'who will win' this year instead of 'oh, another for Armstrong.

But Americans, for the most part, aren't like that. They want their man to win all the time and in cycling, that just doesn't happen that often. Armstrong is a freak of sorts, in the sport. Not that he himself is a freak, but the fact that he's won the same race seven times makes him stand out. Most people are happy to win the same race twice, and three times? Wild. Of course, Grand Tours are a little different, but if you look at the Vuelta and the Giro, they have all had a few different winners during the seven years Armstrong has been racing -- sure a few of them are repeats, but not just one.

And now that Armstrong is gone, anything can happen. That is what makes this sport so awesome. Armstrong made the tour boring, though he did bring focus to other parts of the sport, but the overall race was no longer an issue. It was just 'by how much this year'? And, well, what's the fun in that?

I guess we're about to find out, that is, if OLN will keep covering the sport. Without Armstrong, over half their audience will be gone. I know Armstrong claims to have created new cycling fans, but I doubt he's created enough. Most of them, I'm sure, are Armstrong fans. And now that he's gone, there's no reason for them to watch. I've seen people state the opposite, but I don't believe it. Each year the audience of the Tour grew on OLN and their coverage of the rest of cycling dropped. We went from full coverage of the grand tours (in one year!) two just an hour for the Vuelta.

What's the solution? I don't know. Digital cable the comes with Eurosport? (I would give a lot for that.) Or, my preferred (though extremely expensive) solution: moving to Europe. But what about those of us (me, right now) who can't afford either of those? We just have to suffer and hope that Armstrong is right. I'd like more than just another year of cycling coverage on OLN (no, I don't have faith that people will keep watching -- maybe next year, but definitely not in '07). I'll just cross my fingers and start saving money.

Governor Lance?

Outside magazine last month asked what Lance Armstrong planned to do after retiring from professional cycling, laid-back Lance responded that he was going to stay active with his cycling team and its sponsors and relax.

"There's obviously a whole bunch of stuff I want to do," he explained. "I want to ride my motorcycle on my ranch. I want to go kayak the Pedernales down to friggin' Lake Travis and call somebody and say 'Uh, can you come pick me up?' I want to build a rock wall out here. Just weird things." Then he added the kicker, `"Maybe I'll run for governor."

Asked if he was serious about running in next year's Texas governor's race, Mr. Armstrong aw-shucked, but then responded in surprising detail, "There's no follow up. I'll leave it at that. Not in '06, though. I drove Sheryl (Crow, his singer-girlfriend) by the governor's mansion on the way home from dinner. It's a nice mansion. Nice place, nice house. I hate the word mansion, but it's a nice house."

Lance on TV

Lance on TV - all these times are CST, check your own tv listings for your time zone.

Lance will be on Letterman and Charlie Rose on Monday night, Aug 1st.  Charlie Rose is on Tuesday, August 2nd at noon, also.

Lance and the Ride of a Lifetime on OLN - First two showings on Aug 2nd with more showings on August 6th and 7th. 

No date yet on the Discovery Channel Documentary on the TourWatch 2005 event in Austin, but I'll try and get the air date from Bill and Talia (the videographers) this week.

Lance on TV

Lance on TV - all these times are CST, check your own tv listings for your time zone.

Lance will be on Letterman and Charlie Rose on Monday night, Aug 1st.  Charlie Rose is on Tuesday, August 2nd at noon, also.

Lance and the Ride of a Lifetime on OLN - First two showings on Aug 2nd with more showings on August 6th and 7th. 

No date yet on the Discovery Channel Documentary on the TourWatch 2005 event in Austin, but I'll try and get the air date from Bill and Talia (the videographers) this week.

Eatin' out to help the LAF

Austin's hometown hero Lance Armstrong will kick up his cancer fundraising efforts next month by teaming with seven Austin restaurants.

The seven-time Tour de France champion is organizing the "Best of 7 Austin" fundraising event on Aug. 8 and 9.

Each restaurant will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Participating restaurants include Cool River Cafe, County Line Barbecue, El Arroyo, Texadelphia, Waterloo Ice House, The Bitter End and Zen.

Not all restaurants participate both days, visit bestof7austin.com for more information.

Flying Forehead flees to Liberty Seguros

 

Vinokourov to Liberty Seguros

BBC SPORT | Vinokourov joins Liberty Seguros

Alexandre Vinokourov, whose aggressive riding animated the 2005 Tour, will join Manolo Saiz' Liberty Seguros squad.

The team's previous Tour leader, Roberto Heras, had a disappointing Tour in 45th, and Saiz said publicly during the Tour that Heras would ride Giro and not lead the team's Tour squad next season.

Vinokourov will bring along a fellow Kazakh, Sergey Yakovlev, from T-Mobile.

Said Vino:

"They have the best riders in the mountains and are among the best in the team time trials. It was almost a natural choice," he said of Liberty Seguros.

"We have discussed my programme for 2006 - I've had the guarantee I will be able to fully focus on the Tour de France."

Flying Forehead heading to Liberty Seguros

Vinokourov to Liberty Seguros; Discovery's missed this one!

BBC SPORT | Vinokourov joins Liberty Seguros

Alexandre Vinokourov, whose aggressive riding animated the 2005 Tour, will join Manolo Saiz' Liberty Seguros squad.

The team's previous Tour leader, Roberto Heras, had a disappointing Tour in 45th, and Saiz said publicly during the Tour that Heras would ride Giro and not lead the team's Tour squad next season.

Vinokourov will bring along a fellow Kazakh, Sergey Yakovlev, from T-Mobile.

Said Vino:

"They have the best riders in the mountains and are among the best in the team time trials. It was almost a natural choice," he said of Liberty Seguros.

"We have discussed my programme for 2006 - I've had the guarantee I will be able to fully focus on the Tour de France."

Tour of Texas TourWatch 2005 at Central Market

Wed 27 Jul 2005

Dutch National TV covers TourWatch 2005

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Dutch National Television did a news story on the TourWatch 2005 event with shots of Town Lake, Bicycle Sports Shop, Central Market and podcasting during the Tour.

Go to this page and then click on
“Austin is trots op Lance Armstrong”

Wed 27 Jul 2005

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A friend of mine who lives in Germany messaged me this morning (my time) and asked if I’d heard about Ullrich. I hadn’t, so she told me. It seems that Armstrong has been trying to get Ullrich to join Discovery. German news reported that Ullrich was leaving T-Mobile for Discovery. (It’s in German, but you can use http://world.altavista.com to translate it like I did.)

Tue 26 Jul 2005

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Mon 25 Jul 2005

Tour de France Stage 20 Prequel

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Part of one of my sounding seeing tour podcast from the big day on the Final Stage of the Tour de France, July 24, 2005

This has the interview that Reuters News Service did with me at the TourWatch 2005 Central Market event.

Sun 24 Jul 2005

Lance Armstrong wins 7th Tour de France July 24 2005

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TourWatch fans cheer as Lance wins Tour 7

This has been going on for 7 years for Lance Armstrong. And he proved himself again.
Hundreds, maybe over a thousand, of fans showed up at the final day of the TourWatch event and cheered for Lance. Many signed the giant card brought to the event by OLN.

I made a two hour video of the whole event and card signing (with 20 to 30 video thank you notes from Austin fans) which I’ll be publishing in bits and pieces over the next week or two. And I’ll be sending the whole 2 hours to Lance Armstrong as a DVD as a “video thank you card” from Austin.

This podcast is a “sound seeing” tour of the event and the card signing. I’ll have a final Tour de France 2005 wrapup podcast in the next day or so.

Oh yeah, and the “Flying Forehead” Alexandre Vinokourov won today’s stage.

Sat 23 Jul 2005

Tour de France Stage 20 at Central Market and Kevin Blessing, Central Market M

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Lance Armstrong (”Chuy”) has done it.

He smashed his rivals Ullrich, Basso and Vinokourov in today’s time trial, the 20th stage in the Tour de France.nk

I’m podcasting live at Central Market, and doing a “video thank you card” for Lance from the folks at Central Market. I got video thank yous from about 20 or so folks.

Listen to the podcast.

I did an interview with Walter of Dutch National Television and escorted them around a little bit of Austin.

Fri 22 Jul 2005

Tour de France Stage 19 at Central Market and Kevin Blessing, Central Market M

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Tour de France Stage 19 at Central Market and Kevin Blessing, CM GM

Paul Terry Walhus, founder and creator of TourWatch 2005, provides live coverage from Tour de France Stage 19 at Central Market. And he talks with Kevin Blessing, General Manager of Central Market who let Paul and Trek Sports Drink initiate this event.

Listen to the Tour de France Stage 19 Podcast now.

Walhus say “this may be my best podcast ever, at least it’s the most enjoyable one I’ve ever made. It’s kind of a sound seeing tour of Central Market with Kevin Blessing plus some coverage of today’s stage which brings you up to date quotes and news from the best cycling blogs and podcasts.”

Phil Liggett says come to Central Market in Austin Texas on Sunday July 24th and sign the big card and thank Lance. Listen to Phil now. 15 second podcast. In the Stage 19 podcast, Paul, Stephen Dulaney and Kevin discuss this rumor which got Central Market 50 some odd phone calls yesterday from folks asking “Is Lance going to be at Central Market on Sunday?”

from CycloBlog:

Stage 19 - Albi to Mende, 189 km - Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) has won today’s stage of the Tour de France after riding away from his breakaway partners on the torturous climb of Côte de la Croix Neuve, 1 kilometre from the finish.

Early on in the day, a large number of riders attempted to escape from the main group, but each one was quickly pulled back. Rider after rider attacked, but the main players didn’t allow any break to get away until Carlos Da Cruz (Française des Jeux) instigated the move of the day after 40 kilometres.

Da Cruz — a tough rider who has been involved in numerous getaways throughout the Tour — was quickly joined by a number of riders, including Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas), Luke Roberts (CSC), Xabier Zandio (Illes Balears), Axel Merckx (Davitamon-Lotto), Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom), Matthias Kessler (T-Mobile), Cédric Vasseur (Cofidis) and Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros).

With the best-placed rider in this ten-man group being Zandio — 25th, and nearly 40 minutes down — the peloton were content to let them build up a big lead. With 60-odd kilometres of the stage remaining, the gap stood at 10 minutes, and it continued to build until the 35km to go mark, at which point it had reached it’s maximum of 15 minutes.

Video Card to Lance

Phil Liggett says come to Central Market in Austin Texas on Sunday July 24th and sign the big card and thank Lance. Listen to Phil now. 15 second podcast.

And be sure to sign the “video” card to Lance that Paul Terry Walhus will be making with his camera.

Thu 21 Jul 2005

Tour de France Stage 18 Podcast

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Serrano takes stage 18. Listen to the podcast recorded live at Central Market in Austin, Texas. Includes talk with Stephen Dulaney and others.

Liberty Seguros can celebrate. Marcos Serrano rode a saavy race, and outrode Axel Merckx and Cedric Vasseur for a stage win. Lance “the Boss” had picked Axel as the stage winner but apparently Serrano didn’t get the message. Isn’t Serrano’s one of Lance’s Austin burrito stops?

Another stage split will again shake up the General Classification. The selection narrowed the field down to just Armstrong (”Chuy”), Basso (needs no knickname), Ullrich (the “sausage”), and Cadel Evans (the “Aussage”), who took the line sprint at 11:18, and moves into 7th at 9:49.

Top 20:
1) Marcos Serrano, Liberty Seguros, in 4:37:36
2) Cedric Vasseur, Cofidis, at :27
3) Axel Merckx, Davitamon-Lotto, at :27
4) Xabier Zandio, Illes Balears, at 1:08
5) Franco Pellizotti, Liquigas, at 1:08
6) Thomas Voeckler, Bouyges Telecom, at 1:28
7) Luke Roberts, CSC, at 1:28
8) Matthias Kessler, T-Mobile, at 1:44
9) Egoi Martinez, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 1:44
10) Carlos Da Cruz, Française des Jeux, at 2:38
11) Cadel Evans, Davitamon-Lotto, at 11:18
12) Lance Armstrong, Discovery Channel, same time
13) Ivan Basso, CSC, same time
14) Jan Ullrich, T-Mobile, same time
15) Alexandre Vinokourov, T-Mobile, at 11:55
16) Michael Rasmussen, Rabobank, same time
17) Levi Leipheimer, Gerolsteiner, same time
18) Francisco Mancebo, Illes Balears, same time
19) Leonardo Piepoli, Saunier Duval-Prodier, at 12:01
20) Floyd Landis, Phonak, at 12:07

New overall classification:
1) Armstrong
2) Basso, at 2:46
3) Rasmussen, at 3:46
4) Ullrich, at 5:58
5) Mancebo, at 7:08
6) Leipheimer, at 8:12
7) Evans, at 9:49
8) Vinokourov, at 10:11
9) Landis, at 10:42
10) Christophe Moreau, at 13:15

Rasmussen has the polka dot king of the mountains jersey locked up mathematically.

Thu 21 Jul 2005

Phil Liggett “Come to Central Market Sunday July 24 and Thank Lance”

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Phil Liggett says come to Central Market in Austin Texas on Sunday July 24th and sign the big card and thank Lance. Listen to Phil now. 15 second podcast.

And be sure to sign the “video” card to Lance that Paul Terry Walhus will be making with his camera.

Wed 20 Jul 2005

Tour de France Stage 17 Tour of Texas Podcast

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Hear all about Lance Armstrong and Discovery Team Paolo Savoldelli winning the 17th stage at Tour de France; Armstrong gets his 79th yellow jersey

On today’s Tour of Texas Podcast TDF Stage 17

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Austin, Texas - Lance Armstrong marked another milestone in his Tour de France career by claiming his 79th race leader’s yellow jersey Wednesday in a stage won by teammate Paolo Savoldelli.

Armstrong tied French great Bernard Hinault. Only Eddy Merckx, with 111, has won more yellow jerseys. Merckx, Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Jacques Anquetil all won five Tours - a record Armstrong surpassed last year.

Savoldelli’s victory on stage 17, the longest this year, was the third for Armstrong’s Discovery Channel team at this Tour. George Hincapie won a stage in the Pyrenees and the squad won the team time trial. Armstrong has not won an individual stage.

Savoldelli was part of a breakaway group that built up a lead of more than 24 minutes over Armstrong’s following pack. Because the riders ahead were no threat to his overall lead, Armstrong did not give chase

The Tour of Texas TourWatch 2005 is sponsored by the Austin Podcasting Network, Grande Communications, Circuit City, the Spring, the Tour of Texas, 24 Hour Fitness, SXSW Interactive, and Rob Sartin’s Ride for the Roses Blog.

Wed 20 Jul 2005

Live Podcast of Tour de France Stage 16

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Pereiro wins 16th stage as Armstrong nears title 19 July 2005

AUSTIN, TEXAS - Today’s Stage 16 podcast features two hours of live commentary on the stage with a special promo of the Bazzman and Hutch Cycling Insight podcast, one of the funniest around. And a report live from TourWatch 2005 from Rob Sartin.

This podcast is part 1. Part 2 will be out soon. The second hour.

Spaniard Oscar Pereiro Sio won the 16th stage of the 2005 Tour de France as American Lance Armstrong continued to roll towards his seventh consecutive championship.

The 27-year-old Pereiro covered the 180.5 kilometres from Moulenx to Pau in 4 hours 38:40 minutes, and beat countryman Xabier Zandio in a sprint to the finish to register his first-ever Tour stage victory.

He also bested Aussie Cadel Evans, who led most of the way. Armstrong finished with the main pack, 3:24 minutes behind the winner and continues to lead Italian Ivan Basso by 2:46 minutes in the overall standings, with Mickael Rasmussen of Denmark 3:09 adrift.

Mon 18 Jul 2005

Tour de France stage 15 podcast

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Tour of Texas TourWatch 2005 Monster Podcast of Stage 15 at the Tour de France on July 17, 2005

Sunday was the biggest stage in the Pyrenees, a great day for Lance and an awesome day for George Hincapie who won the first stage ever by a member of Lance’s teams over all these years. Hincapie has been Lance’s most faithful lieutenant throughout the years. In his podcast, Paul Terry Walhus watches and talks about the stage for over an hour and breaks down the riders, the coming stages and has some potent quotes on this years Tour de France.

It was a huge day at Austin, Texas Central Market, where it was standing room only and the crowd went wild with Lance’s performance and the Hincapie win.

One of the most touching moments at the TourWatch event was watching Spencer Sartin, a 7 year old kid in cancer treatment, work the crowd. His dad, Rob Sartin, loaded him up with Ride for the Roses flyers and yellow wristbands and Spencer went to nearly every single table and gave them away. And this coming only 12 hours after his last chemo treament.

Mon 18 Jul 2005

No dad I beat you by 30 minutes on Alp D’Huez, not 20 minutes

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Stay tuned for tomorrow’s monster podcast of Stage 15 of the Tour de France. A “not miss podcasts” with some great surprises.

No dad I beat you by 30 minutes on Alp D’Huez, not 20 minutes

Mon 18 Jul 2005

Pictures from the Big Pyrenees Day at Central Market

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Stay tuned for my monster podcast covering the biggie, stage 15 coming tomorrow. It’s a blow by blow of Stage 15 with an accompanying video of the scene at Central Market.

Until then, here is a photo gallery from that day. Spencer. That boy can really work a crowd. And what a Trekfest! The photos were captured from the video.

Mon 18 Jul 2005

Live Podcast of Tour de France Stage 16

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Pereiro wins 16th stage as Armstrong nears title 19 July 2005

AUSTIN, TEXAS - Today’s Stage 16 podcast features two hours of live commentary on the stage with a special promo of the Bazzman and Hutch Cycling Insight podcast, one of the funniest around. And a report live from TourWatch 2005 from Rob Sartin.

This podcast is part 1. Part 2, the second hour, will be out soon.

Spaniard Oscar Pereiro Sio won the 16th stage of the 2005 Tour de France as American Lance Armstrong continued to roll towards his seventh consecutive championship.

The 27-year-old Pereiro covered the 180.5 kilometres from Moulenx to Pau in 4 hours 38:40 minutes, and beat countryman Xabier Zandio in a sprint to the finish to register his first-ever Tour stage victory.

He also bested Aussie Cadel Evans, who led most of the way. Armstrong finished with the main pack, 3:24 minutes behind the winner and continues to lead Italian Ivan Basso by 2:46 minutes in the overall standings, with Mickael Rasmussen of Denmark 3:09 adrift.

Sat 16 Jul 2005

New Tour of Texas podcasts

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Podcasts
Tour de France Dinner Party - July 15
Chip Brown - talk #2 ESPNAustin sportscaster on the Tour
Chip Brown with ESPN talk #1 on the Tour
Home Town Tales with Gene Fitzpatrick
Paul and Rob Sartin Live on Stage 11 TDF
Grande Communications and 24 Hour Fitness, our sponsors
Triathlete Jan Le Bourgeois on the Tour de France (with Rob Sartin)
Bazzman and Hutch of Cycling Insight
Dawn and Drew talking about the Tour de France
Ted Arnold part 1 - TDF Tour Guide part 2 part 3
Lance Armstrong Q&A May 19 2005 - Windows Media Video
Gabriel, Austin’s biggest TDF Fan
Lance Armstrong’s Daily Podcast
Marlene Merritt (cycling Atlanta to Maine)
Marlene Merritt video podcast interview

Sat 16 Jul 2005

Paul Terry Walhus on the TourWatch 2005 History and Future

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TourWatch History and Comments by Paul Terry Walhus

Paul talks about the beginnings and history of the TourWatch 2005 at Central Market and what a great event this has been for Austin, Texas.

Tomorrow, a special “sound seeing” podcast is planning at Central Market as the second epic day begins in the Pyrennees and the crowds grow bigger at the Event.

Paul recaps his TourWatch podcasts to date and the podcasts he has planned. He discusses the Pyrenees stages and he uses some interesting quotes from Jan Ullrich, Kevin Livingston, letour.fr and tdfblog.com as a launching pad for his Tour “strategycast”.

Quotes of the Day for Sunday July 17

It was also nice to see that when Leipheimer found himself with no support and water, in the break under scorching hot conditions, it was Lance who handed him a water bottle. - Kevin Livingston

“The day’s runner-up will have mixed emotions tonight. There’s no doubt that Armstrong has an answer for every assault thrown at him but he must be wondering what happened to the team of champions his team employed for one purpose; to help him win a record seventh title in his final race as a professional” - letour.fr

Some other big questions were raised: How did Armstrong find himself alone — again — so early in the action? Why does T-Mobile keep chasing down Vinokourov? Should he revert to the pink jersey so they recognize he’s on their team? How many times can Armstrong finish 2nd in a single Tour? - tdfblog.com

“I’m fed up with all those questions about my morale and my mental strength,” Ullrich said. “I crashed twice in the beginning of the Tour but I don’t think I have lacked morale or ambition”. - Jan Ullrich at Eurosport

Fri 15 Jul 2005

Need help picking a theme

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Help me pick a “theme” for this blog. Here’s a very cool “theme picker”

http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/theme_browser.php

Bazzman and Hutch are using “Benevolence” with their own custom header. Still trying to figure out how to replace my header graphic. Right now, I’m using “Connections” which is sort of ok. Some that I like:

These have a choice of themes and 3 columns:
*** Devenir En Gris - grey violet and white
*** Journalized Blue - grey and blue
**** Journalized Sand

Framefake Scheme (for the Spring.net blog maybe) or Greenwood
Meadow (for CanadaCow.com)

Thu 14 Jul 2005

Chip Brown - ESPNAustin sportscaster talks Tour

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Chip Brown brings his terrific insight in to the Tour in a phone podcast from Central Market, Austin, Texas on Bastille Day, July 14, 2005 as Lance maintains his lead but suffers a big setback in today’s stage.

Listen now:

http://www.touroftexas.com/podcasts/chipbrown.mp3

Lance Armstrong lost a key teammate today when Spanish rider Manuel Beltran crashed during the 12th stage of the Tour de France.

Beltran fell on the Col des Demoiselles (dehm-wah-ZEHLZ’) Coiffees (kwah-FEEZ’) climb early in the 116-mile route. He got back on his bike but quit after receiving treatment from a Tour doctor.

Beltran may have sustained a concussion and was taken to the hospital for further tests.

The 34-year-old Beltran is a specialist mountain climber and will be missed by Armstrong when the race heads into the Pyrenees on Saturday. He has been part of Armstrong’s Tour-winning team since 2003.

Armstrong continued to wear the yellow jersey by 38 seconds over Mickael Rasmussen, a Dane with Rabobank, and 2:34 over Christophe Moreau, a Frenchman with Crédit Agricole.

Chip Brown talks about what a threat the relatively unknown Rasmussen could be to Armstrong. Rasmussen could be called the 9th Discovery team member, the way he is clinging to the Discovery team.

Wed 13 Jul 2005

Dawn and Drew talk about the Tour de France (for about 30 seconds)

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The Dawn and Drew Interview from TourWatch 2005!
two ex gutter punks fall in love, buy a retired farm in wisconsin and tell the world their secrets. In this podcast, we find out some things you may not hear on the Dawn and Drew Show (like brief Tour de France commentary).

Wed 13 Jul 2005

Grande Communications: prime sponsor of TourWatch 2005

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Libby Malone, the director of community relations for Grande Communications, talks about the company’s local focus and their approach of getting out into the neighborhood and meeting their customers. Grande is supplying Internet, phone, and television service through their 100% fiber network to the Central Market location for TourWatch 2005. Malone has been a fixture at the event so far, along with Grande’s G-Force RV, their mobile unit used to demo all the company’s products.

Download this podcast directly

Wed 13 Jul 2005

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