Monday II

It turned out to be a great day here. But we had to turn on the air in the office as the circulation is just not that good.

The big news in cycling is that Ivan Basso requested and was granted his release from Discovery. It all relates to the Spanish investigation on doping that was supposedly over and done with when Basso was signed by the team last Fall. Now, the investigation has been given new life and there could be some substantial fallout in the peloton. If they're dirty, they need to go.

The Bulls made quite a statement with the sweep of the Heat. In some respects, it was a case of match-ups, which favored Chicago. Hard to think that way when you have Shaq and Wade on the other side, but the energy, speed and relentlessness of the Bulls' attack made it an open-court game, and Miami just couldn't keep up for a whole game. The next series with Detroit will not be so one-sided.

The friend at SB's who's been writing the book has the final product on the market. It's a soft-bound book with maybe 200 pages or so. He was highly motivated/inspired by his subject, an ultimate fighter who endured an extremely difficult and abusive childhood, and later became a world champion.

What happened to April?

The repair to my "good" bike was more than I spent on several kid bikes in years past. Ouch! They replaced several items, including the right gear shifter that never worked 100% correctly after the UPS shipping problem of 2003. The components are a little expensive to start with, but I can imagine that I paid top dollar for just the right hand unit as opposed to a matching pair. I suppose that a full "tune" to a high-end bike every three years should not be expected to be cheap. The price of a good ride, I guess.

The Monday Night Ride is this evening, but I'm taking a pass. I'm in such embarrassingly bad shape that I need a couple more weeks before I join with those guys.

So I'm headed home for some domestic chores. Send 4 a "get well" note. She had a bug last night with bad results. She and 3 did do the 10K yesterday morning, although 3 says that there were no land speed records broken.

Have a good evening.

Be careful out there.