Operation Gadget

Month: July 2005

  • 5th Week of June 2005 Workouts

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, June 27: Unpacking at new house. Tuesday, June 28: Biked 8.2 miles in 41 minutes 25 seconds. Wednesday, June 29: Unpacking at new house. Thursday, June 30: Biked 6.4 miles in 28 minutes 45 seconds. Friday, July 1:…

  • June 27 – July 3, 2005 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fifth week of June 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • Al Trautwig Using LiveStrong Special Edition Notebook During Tour de France Pre-race Show on OLN

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJosh Hallett of hyku.com asked: Did you notice that {Al Trautwig} had a LiveSTRONG laptop on the desk during the OLN pre-show? I missed that the first time I watched the Pre-race Show, but I was able to go back and look carefully at the lid of Trautwig’s laptop, at the…

  • Ullrich was Helmetless When He Crashed into His Team Car

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn reading about Jan Ullrich’s crash into the T-Mobile team car, I hadn’t heard that Jan wasn’t wearing a helmet when he crashed. Analysts on OLN reported that fact early in this morning’s Stage 1 Pre-race Show. How he went through the rear liftgate glass without being seriously injured is a…

  • Using Google Earth to Follow Stages of the Tour de France

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHarry Lowe of the University of Washington published an article called 2005 Tour de France with Google Earth where he has recorded the routes of the first five stages of the Tour de France for playback using Google Earth. For those of you who haven’t been following its evolution, Google Earth…

  • The Effect of Periodization on Tour de France Results

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRich Young of Experience Plus wrote a very good article called Periodization and Predictions for the ’05 Tour de France where he briefly explained the concept of periodization (“you can’t be superhuman all twelve months of the year”) and went on to discuss the prospects of each of the major Tour…

  • 2005 DC Fundraising Ride to Include 10 and 50-mile Options

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got an email from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope yesterday announcing that registration has opened for the 2005 DC Fundraising Ride. The first 1,500 riders to raise the required $500 in pledges will be able to join Lance Armstrong in one of two rides through Maryland and the District…