I must say I'm absolutely inspired by the Tour De France. I have been watching for a few years, and certainly posted things on my door and watched highlights on ESPN, but this year I have absolutely been blown away. I was sitting with some friends watching the climb up Plateau de Beille and we started joking about the team. This picture is a great image of exactly why Lance is so dominant:
MSNBC - USPS is delivering 6th title for Armstrong.
They are absolutely robotic in their domination. We were quoting the terminator all over the place –
“Listen. And understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”
That is exactly what they looked like. There were entire segments of coverage where they would track Jan Ullrich and Iban Mayo and how hard they were having on the race, and every so often they would flash back to USPS to see five riders in perfect formation and perfect rhythm mercilessly keeping the exact same tempo they had for three straight hours. I wish I could have found some of the overhead shots of the team. You could not have shown a more perfect formation if you had drawn it on paper. It was so inspiring that I went and used the elliptical for 45 minutes on level 19 (out of 20) the next day. Of course, if I were those guys, I would have had to do that about 4 times as long and set the level to 700.
