Category: 2005 Tour de France
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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…
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Lance Should be Glad that Time Trial Helmets Must Protect Riders’ Heads
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t been doing as much reading as I normally do during the run up to the Tour de France. Most of you who read Operation Gadget regularly know that we moved last week and we’re still unpacking. In spite of my preoccupation, I saw the news about Lance Armstrong’s training…
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How the Outdoor Life Network Brings the Tour de France to Viewers in North America
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast Friday I had the unique opportunity to speak with Peter Sumpf, Vice President of Network Operations for the Outdoor Life Network. He’s in charge of the infrastructure that will transmit 2005 Tour de France programming to satellite and cable systems throughout the United States and Canada. I interviewed Peter over the…
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Start Reading “Lance Armstrong’s War”
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy wife Kathleen was laughing at me this morning when I told her that I was about to finish the new book Lance Armstrong’s War by Daniel Coyle, a contributing editor for Outside Magazine. Kathleen said, “Wow, you finished a long book! This is going to open new horizons for you,” as…
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“Race to the Tour” Offers Contestants an Opportunity to Ride and Blog Along the Route of the Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutesSubaru is sponsoring a website called RaceToTheTour.com where they are offering a contest with two chances for the winners to travel to France during this year’s Tour de France, ride along with a Trek Travel bike tour, meet the members of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, and contribute to their Race…
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It’s Definitely Worth Reading “Tour de France for Dummies”
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this week Sammarye Lewis sent me a copy of her new book Tour de France for Dummies. Phil Liggett and James Raia are Sammarye’s co-authors. I hope to be able to do a more comprehensive review of this book in the next few days, but I want to say that Tour…
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Daubert’s Column on Trek Website Provides Details of TTx, Goes Weekly
Reading Time: 2 minutesA couple of days ago, Trek published a column by Scott Daubert that provides a lot of background on the new TTx time trial bike frame as well as the new aero bar that evolved out of the prototype that Lance Armstrong has been using in time trials. The column also discusses…
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How Can I Use My Pocket PC with a GPS to Get Driving Directions?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I mentioned in an earlier article, Sammarye Lewis, co-author of the new book Tour de France for Dummies asked me how to make her H-P iPAQ h6315 work smoothly with a Garmin GPS 10 Deluxe or another handheld GPS, so that she can get directions to places along the Tour de…