For your listening pleasure, another episode of Pelotonitis Podcast. Main topics of conversation: Unrest in the Italian camp, rumors galore, stage 20 of the Giro made Anna so angry (don’t try and reason with her, it’s no use), and we decide that the US Pro Champs need some video lessons.
Who are you and what have you done with Bertie?
Giro d’Italia 2011
Ecstatic Bert. I have never seem him smile so big.
(Reuters Pictures)
Really proud of Vincenzo’s 3rd place. He gave it all, even though he couldn’t win. Nibs is young, he still has many opportunities and he will try again :)
Wow, Nibbles looks GOOD! I wanted him to win, but he made me proud, fighting so hard. #NibblesFanClub!
The sufferfaces were out in full force for the uphill TT in this year’s Giro.
Seriously. Could he look any more like a dwarf?
Nibali digs deep, second place only to Contador who seems…inhumanly strong.
(Photo via Cyclowired.jp)
Nibbles color poppin’.
While I’m an emotional person, I don’t often become emotional over the death of public figure. I didn’t shed a tear for Michael Jackson, Patrick Swazye, or even Heath Ledger, someone I had a huge teenage crush on. But for some reason I was intensely emotional over Wouter Waylandt’s death. While it felt strange, I was comforted by the fact that the cycling community shared my grief and emotions. As silly as Twitter can be sometimes, these past two days it has been a place for me to “be” with people who understood what I was going through and who I could be emotional with. Today’s neutralized stage was a great closing for me. Eurosport commentators David Harmon and Sean Kelly did it just right, and the shots of the Leopard-Trek team rolling through the finish with Tyler Farrar were extremely moving.
But, now I’m ready to look forward. I’m not one to dwell on things past, as they can’t be changed. I’ll take with me always how I felt these last few days, but life must go on. Tomorrow, I am myself again.
