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

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 C?te 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 (Fran?aise 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), C?dric 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.