Sunday, July 26, 2009

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In honor of the ending of the Tour de France today I thought I'd post a few photos from when Kris and I got to go to the Tour of California bike race last Feb. We had a blast. Kris's friend Jeff had VIP passes we got to use, and so we got to stand right at the edge of the course, right before the finish line. It was the time trail stage, which meant that we got to see each of the riders go by alone.
I got a few good pictures and a lot of bad ones. And the guys near the end--the exciting fast ones--I couldn't even get photos of because everybody was hanging over the edge of the barrier, sticking their dumb old point'n'shoots way out in the way, so that I couldn't see anything. I don't usually feel short, but I felt short that day!
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Here's Floyd Landis, one of Kris's favs.
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Thor Hushovd, another guy we really like.
And now a few random guys that I can't identify because we lost the roster with all the numbers/names on it, dang it!
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I hope we get to go to the Tour of California again, and someday to the Tour de France. It would be so fun!

3 comments:

Ginna said...

How come nobody told me I had written Tour de Grance instead of Tour de FRANCE???

Anonymous said...

The Tour of Missouri has been fun the last couple of years. It almost didn't happen this year because of budget issues. All the big names/teams usually show up, and the finish is in KC this year instead of St. Louis. I used my crappy point-n-shoot last time for some lame photos, but this year we'll see what I can do with my new camera. Nice shots by the way.

Rachel said...

How fun! Sorry. I didn't read this post until you'd fixed the typo. :D Kind of funny though.