Thursday, July 28, 2005

Tour of Texas TourWatch 2005 at Central Market

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”

wannabe bike girl

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Oscar Pereiro celebrates his stage victoryThe 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Oscar Pereiro celebrates his stage victoryThe 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.

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

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

lance207.jpgIt 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

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)

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.

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).

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

Paul Terry Walhus and Rob Sartin Talk Live during Stage 11 Tour de France

Rob and Paul talk live during the final hour of stage 11 in which Vinokourov (the “Flying Forehead” as dubbed by Bazzman and Hutch) shaves about a minute and a half off Lance Armstrong’s lead.

We’ll be doing more live commentary from our perch at Central Market during the exciting final days of the Tour de France.

http://touroftexas.com/podcasts/sartin050713.mp3

Home Town Tales are stories about everyone’s home town.

http://www.touroftexas.com/podcasts/hometown.mp3 is the podcast we did at Central Market with Gene Fitzpatrick via telephone with Rob Sartin and some motivated passersby.

Hometown Tales is A Podcast supporting the popular underground TV show about local legends, folklore, ghost stories and more. Hear the latest strange news, tales and stories from around the world.

Hometown Tales Podcast July 12, 2005
This week a snake baggin’ festival in PA, mass sheep suicide, Jack the Ripper theories, bigfoot webcam, an island lost treasure for sale, some hauntings including a listeners creepy child’s ghost, tree circles, Loch Ness insurance, famous gravestones, Cambodian zombies and more.

A conversation with Rob Sartin and Jan Le Bourgeois at the TourWatch 2005 on the Tour de France.

Lance became the holder of the Yellow Jersey on July 5 thanks to Discovery Team having a great ride, but decided not to wear yellow to start July 6. Why not? Listen to Conversations with Rob: Yellow Jersey Etiquette for a brief discussion.


Audio and Video Podcasts:

New! Triathlete Jan Le Bourgeois
on the Tour de France
(with Rob Sartin)

Marlene Merritt cycling from Atlanta to Maine)
Marlene Merritt video podcast interview
Bazzman and Hutch of Cycling Insight
Gabriel, Austin’s biggest TDF Fan
Dawn and Drew talking about the Tour de France
Velogal talks 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

The TourWatch 2005 podcasts are now ready to roll. In the last few days I’ve done several podcast interviews with Dawn and Drew (the nations top podcasters), Bazzman and Hutch (Australia’s Dawn and Drew, just kidding, these guys are funny, insightful cycling and TDF commentators), and some great local Austin cyclists and Tour de France enthusiasts that I’ve met at Central Market. Velogal, our correspondent at the Tour.

I’ll also post the Cycling Insight guys recording of our interview because I suspect it will be of better quality than the one I did on the skype session.

Marlene Merritt, cyclist, at Central Market (cycling from Atlanta to Portland Maine)
Marlene Merritt video podcast interview
Bazzman and Hutch of Cycling Insight
Gabriel, Austin’s biggest TDF Fan
Dawn and Drew talking about the Tour de France
Velogal talks about the Tour de France
Ted Arnold part 1 - TDF Tour Guide
Ted Arnold part 2
Ted Arnold part 3
Lance Armstrong Question and Answer from May 19 2005 - Windows Media Video Podcast

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