Couple of late images from the February birthdays

What are Rob and Glen doing? Who is inflicting pain upon whom?

Trinidad and Tobago

There is a new weather "sticker" over there on the right panel. I'll be there in April. More about this later.

Sunday's LA Bike Ride

Ken and I have been doing this ride for a few years now. It is fun and it's a big crowd. And it starts really early--5:50 AM.



A 50 year old man had a heart attack and died during this ride last Sunday. I didn't see it, but we heard about it on TV that evening. Someone who is a friend of a friend who rode, saw the guy getting CPR and said, wow that guys is really old. But the 50 year old guy who passed away wasn't me. I'm glad.

Courts and equality?

Here's an article on what some of our circuit courts have been ruling.

More Reading about Floyd Landis

An article from the North County newspaper was ar the same event we were and his article is here.

Floyd or his people have a blog style web site here.

And you can read the Floyd Fairness Fund website.

We had us some fun here at the Lanning residence last night, celebrating the birthdays of my two favorite cousins. I tried to be sneaky with my pictures to get the scene candidly, but I think Daniel was on to me...



Timothy: "Are we done yet?" I like the action in this picture...



Glen gave a free screening for parasites (how absolutely miniscule my head looks in his hands!)



One thing I realize (from "behind the scenes") after moving in with grandma (Doris) is how much love and effort she invests in these get togethers that we have from time to time. Way to go Gram!



See the rest of you all next time!

What's Fair is Clear

Last night, after our hard work as TOC volunteers in Long Beach, Cindi and I made our way over the Vincent Thomas bridge to San Pedro for an evening with Floyd Landis. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening for me. Took some pictures, shook Floyd's hand, listened to the presentation on fairness in drug testing in sport.

LA Times coverage this morning

I didn't really have any opportunity to see any local news coverage on the TOC this year.

This if from the LA Times by Diane Pucin. She reported on the 2006 from France.

According to race organizers, an estimated 1.6 million fans watched the eight-stage, 650-mile trip from San Francisco to Long Beach.

The Tour of California is in its second year and is owned by AEG. Shawn Hunter, president of AEG sports, says the company intends to continue its five-year plan of growing the event into a premier cycling stop.

"We are looking to expand the race from eight to 10 days next year," Hunter said. "A mountain finish is something we're going to look at in the next couple of years."

Leipheimer and American Bobby Julich (CSC), who finished fourth overall, both said gaining a true mountain stage finish was important.

"A mountain finish would make it pretty exciting," Julich said. "Do we really need one? Yeah, we do."

Leipheimer agreed: "Fans would really like it, even if we have a shorter, uphill finish."

Channel 9's helicopter spent a lot of time following the riders up and down Ocean Blvd yesterday. Only a few brief moments on their "Sports Central" program at 10:30 PM.

VS. changed their schedule at will, unannounced on Saturday. The Bull Riding show just went too long I guess.

Sunday in Long Beach

Long day. Cold Day. No rain. Fun Levi--shown above in yellow wins the General Classification (GC). You too can get a staff tee shirt and a turkey sandwich for your effort as a volunteer.

More photos to come with commentary on Floyd-->

More photos from Saturday in Santa Clarita

You can click on any of these photos to get to Flikr to see more pictures. Daniel has some comments on some of these over there.

What a day in Santa Clarita

Click on any of these pictures to see more over at Flikr.

Speaking of Floyd

Floyd signing water bottles in Sacramento. His line was the longest. Many people waiting line were saying postive things about him.