Operation Gadget
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April 25 – May 1, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fourth week of April 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…
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The “I Can Get to the Next Level” Moment
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow that I’m back from my two week trip to the Chicago Showcase and the Dodge Tour de Georgia, I’m starting the part of the year where I do my most intense training. It seems that every year I have a moment in my training or in a race in which I’m…
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Don’t Miss the Tour de Georgia on OLN’s Cyclysm Sunday on May 1
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been remiss in not pointing out that the Outdoor Life Network will be showing two hours of Dodge Tour de Georgia highlights on the Cyclysm Sunday program. The Tour de Georgia episode will air today, Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time. A few moments of Lance Armstrong’s…
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They Called Me “The Blogger” at the Dodge Tour de Georgia
Reading Time: 3 minutesJosh Hallett wrote an article called Bloggers as Media: Operation Gadget gets Credentialed for the Tour de Georgia which included an email that I sent him where I gave the rationale for covering the race, the approach I used to get a credential, and why covering the Dodge Tour de Georgia seems…
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How Hard Did the Riders Work in the Tour de Georgia?
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve talked to me by phone or email since I returned from the Dodge Tour de Georgia, you know that I was exhausted when I got home and it took me two or three days to start to feel reasonably normal again. This gives me even more respect for the effort…
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The Paceline Links to Operation Gadget
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA special welcome to the readers of The Paceline, the official website of the Lance Armstrong and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. The Paceline linked our story about Discovery’s use of AMD Personal Media Players to review time trialing techniques, and gave us a nice traffic boost. For those of you…
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More Tour de Georgia Photos Added
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI added more photos from Stage 6 to the 2005 Tour de Georgia Album in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. Most of these are close up photos of bikes that the riders rode in the final stage. I didn’t realize that backfilling photos would change the order of the photos and…
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How Bad Was the Weather on Woody’s Gap?
Reading Time: 2 minutesHail Storm on Woody’s Gap: This 2-second MPEG movie may be all you need to appreciate the furious hail storm that occurred while fans were waiting for the riders to pass by. [ Video: James Bailey ] See more TdG photos in in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. One of the moments…
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Back from Two Weeks on the Road
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI had an uneventful flight from Atlanta to Newark yesterday afternoon. This ended my two week trip to the Chicago Showcase and the Tour de Georgia. My wife Kathleen met me at the airport and we went food shopping at Wegmans on the way home. At least I’m trying to get…