This is awesome!! http://www.bontrager.com/news/inform_technology_aids_in_lance_armstrongs_recovery/en We should all carry one of these in our toolkits!
holding off on posting rides,until we get some decent weather. will email those that offered to post a list of weeks and some route suggestions. Until, get some base miles in and think of the grime as a protective coating for the carbon. snow back/sun ahead. Happy Birthday Bubbles, sure Rat will spoil you for the rest of us...
Anyone for a ride tommorrow evening? Supposed to stop raining in the afternoon, so I was thinking of going out at 5:30 from the Y (weather permitting).
any interest in ride Friday AM, Breakfast Acorns by Kings Landing. depart 0930?? post if interested. I sell details
Friday Sunny. Increasing cloudiness late in the morning with 30 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Wind becoming west 20 km/h late in the morning. High 10. UV index 4 or moderate.
Hey Stinky, I hope to make it out tonight. game time decision with work. if so will spin by. don't wait. Posted ride Wednesday 5:30 Seniors complex, Saunders St.
Hey guys, Ora Chronos 520 carbon tubular wheel set for sale. one Tufo tire included, front wheel never used cork pads and valve extenders included. Email killerb09@hotmail.com for details.
great wednesday night ride, head wind out, tail wind back. Hey Jazz sorry i didn't stop to chat on deerwood, racing home to make the 5:30 ride. Actually thought it was some skinny ass chick riding. Put some meat on man.:-)
Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton, once touted as the next great American cyclist and an heir to Lance Armstrong's throne atop the sport, ended his doping-tarnished career Friday by saying he tested positive for a banned substance and would retire.
Hamilton admitted taking an herbal product for two days in February to combat depression, knowing it included a steroid.
"There's nothing to fight about," the 38-year-old Hamilton told The Associated Press. "I took a banned substance. I accept the consequences. You make mistakes in your life and I accept the penalty like a man."
Hamilton will likely receive a ban from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that may range from eight years to life, a sentence that would have ended his racing days anyway.
"He has had a cloud over his career for a while now and the sport is better off without him," said Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union.
Hamilton's win at the 2004 Athens Games was overshadowed by a blood doping scandal. He tested positive for doping a second time later that year, served a two-year suspension and returned to racing early in 2007 -- never revealing that he was fighting depression, which he said runs in his family.
Going through a divorce and seeing his mother fight breast cancer made things worse in recent months, Hamilton said.
Seeking relief, he took something called Mitamins Advanced Formula, billed as a "natural depression treatment with vitamins, herbs and supplements."
"Obviously, that was a mistake," Hamilton said.
In a statement, USADA said it will continue going through the process of issuing a sanction.
"Although Mr. Hamilton has now retired from the sport of cycling and has publicly accepted responsibility, this is a pending matter and USADA will make an announcement of the final outcome and imposition of the exact sanction in accordance with the rules when the process is complete, which should be in the coming months," the statement said.
The Mitamins product contains common things such as vitamins D, B-6 and B-12, along with thiamin, riboflavin and calcium. Each serving also contains 20 milligrams of a steroid called Dehydroepiandrosterone -- DHEA, as it's known.
"Clinical research has suggested that taking DHEA orally might improve the symptoms of depression," reads the company's website.
Hamilton said the amount of the steroid found in his system was "so, so low" and that subsequent tests, including ones later that same week before the Tour of California, all came back negative.
"I took it to help my mental state," Hamilton said. "I did not, 100 per cent, take it for any performance enhancement."
Hamilton said he was taking a prescription antidepressant called Celexa, and was feeling so badly a few months ago that he decided to double up on the dosage. After seeing no significant change in his mental state, Hamilton stopped taking the drug entirely.
He tried the Mitamins product, he said, on Feb. 6 and 7. USADA testers knocked on his door the next day.
"I was thinking everything would be fine," Hamilton said. "It might sound a little crazy, but I wasn't really worried. I wasn't really stressing about it. Maybe it's because of everything else I was going through. I don't know why."
About five weeks later, he learned everything was not fine.
Citing bronchitis, Hamilton did not ride in the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon in Spain -- the race where Armstrong fell and broke his collarbone. And he was expected to be the leader of Rock Racing's team for a race in Portugal earlier this month, but was replaced on the roster shortly before that event.
At the time, few knew why.
"This is, for me personally, a really tough day," said Rock Racing owner Michael Ball. "My personality is to always fight for what I feel is right."
Others around Hamilton also encouraged him to fight the latest positive test. Hamilton's attorney, Chris Manderson, said they were mapping "several different strategies" including one to file a federal suit against USADA over the testing.
"Tyler has decided he does not want to pursue that route," Manderson said. "He wants to focus on the reasons why he did what he did and he wants to focus on getting better and getting on with his life."
Hamilton won the road time trial at the Athens Olympics, capping one of the finest days USA Cycling had known.
Americans won three medals that day on a road along the Saronic Gulf, with Hamilton's gold and Bobby Julich taking the bronze in the time trial and Dede Barry winning silver in the women's time trial.
Soon after, Hamilton's first positive test for blood doping came back, but he was ultimately allowed to keep the gold medal because his 'B' sample collected in Athens could not be properly tested. A month later, he tested positive again.
Hamilton has long denied participating in blood doping, the transfusion of extra blood that can increase endurance because more red blood cells are available to deliver oxygen to muscles.
For this latest positive test, he denied nothing.
"I knew it was banned," Hamilton said.
Hamilton briefly considered himself retired last year, then returned to compete in several races, plus won USA Cycling's road race national championship by less than one one-hundredth of a second.
He doesn't know what he'll do next, other than focusing on his health and family.
"This isn't about a test. It's a bigger issue," Hamilton said. "It's a disease that I'm going through, that my family has gone through, that I need to take care of. Cycling is just a sport, racing your bike from Point A to Point B. What I'm going through is so much bigger." Your Call
Saturday Lunch ride went as planned for Mr and Ms No Doubt. 52km @ 20.4km/h. The roads were perfect, barely any wind, the sun was out and the company was good. A nice stop at the Sour Grape for a soup and panini to cap off my favourite ride so far of '09.
It's Maytag Mike aka Rat just to let you know I have been doing some riding solo given my shift work. Me and the Bubbles were on a cruise last week in the Carribean back on Sunday. Had a ride yesterday and this am. Went out at0630 as Bubbles is up and out the door at 0600. Had 53k in by 0810 and will likely go out early in the summer when I work evenings and maybe turn some into a commute with Smoothy.
By the way Smoothy the contacts work great for exercising and were perfect for snorkeling.
Not available for a ride until Sunday am but have to go out for 09-0930.
47 comments:
This is awesome!!
http://www.bontrager.com/news/inform_technology_aids_in_lance_armstrongs_recovery/en
We should all carry one of these in our toolkits!
Going out for a spin @2pm. Rooster tails back, let me know if you want to meet up.
Cookie, Are these the "before" pictures?
holding off on posting rides,until we get some decent weather. will email those that offered to post a list of weeks and some route suggestions. Until, get some base miles in and think of the grime as a protective coating for the carbon.
snow back/sun ahead.
Happy Birthday Bubbles, sure Rat will spoil you for the rest of us...
Turbo, whose the babe? Is this a promotion scene of some sort?
Happy Birthday Bubbles...
Check out who there holding AKA
Cookie's Chicks or George's Girls, he accepts either conotation.
Or maybe Versloot's Vixens.
Argh! When are we going to be able to get out biking? Enough with this rain already.
Turbo, how do you know which Babe Firebird was refering to, maybe it was the other picture. I am hurt
Hey Firebird, please confirm which "Babe" your were in reference to.
See what comes from not riding your bike!
Happy Birthday Bubbles
To one of the smartest babes we know!
Love ya, ;-)
p.s. Someone please stop the rain
Anyone for a ride tommorrow evening? Supposed to stop raining in the afternoon, so I was thinking of going out at 5:30 from the Y (weather permitting).
Meet you at the Y at 5:30, Yea!
Hey Firebird, didn't mean to blow past your turn off home last night like that. Wasn't exactly sure where I was going! Thanks for the ride.
Hey Brian, all great, super ride super pace... thanks for pulling me along. Anytime U want to ride just post it. Remember no TV before 3.:-)
any interest in ride Friday AM, Breakfast Acorns by Kings Landing. depart 0930?? post if interested.
I sell details
Friday
Sunny. Increasing cloudiness late in the morning with 30 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Wind becoming west 20 km/h late in the morning. High 10. UV index 4 or moderate.
Turb, I'm in!
Blackberry Jazz
I am in Turbo, Later in morning is better for me. Just post time and place I will be there.
0930 at Stepping Stone Seniors complex on Saunders. on a schedule leaving for Bathurst after lunch.
Hey Turbo: See you at 930am. My first ride of the year so go easy.
"Great" Good Friday am ride, Zorro, Libby, Cain, and Turbo. Good pace.
Happy Easter to all, remember the hollow chocolate is sweeter.
Anyone riding tomorrow (saturday)?
Anybody heading out tomorrow night? I will be leaving the Y at 5:30. It will be a very easy ride. I have only been on my bike 4 times.
Happy Birthday Zorro.
Hey Stinky, I hope to make it out tonight. game time decision with work. if so will spin by. don't wait.
Posted ride
Wednesday 5:30 Seniors complex, Saunders St.
Hey guys, Ora Chronos 520 carbon tubular wheel set for sale. one Tufo tire included, front wheel never used cork pads and valve extenders included. Email killerb09@hotmail.com for details.
great wednesday night ride, head wind out, tail wind back.
Hey Jazz sorry i didn't stop to chat on deerwood, racing home to make the 5:30 ride. Actually thought it was some skinny ass chick riding. Put some meat on man.:-)
Is anyone interested in joining me for a ride this evening? It looks really nice out.
Skinny ass chick?! Ouch!
I'd make some mocking rebuttal but I'm as weak as a kitten right now, so the trash talk may have to wait!
Blackberry Jazz
Remember me Mom, calls me fleshy not fat. So be gentle.
Note in some cultures/walks of life "Skinny Ass Chick" would be deemed a compliment.
Hey gang... Anyone up for a Saturday morning ride? Leaving the "Y" at 10:00am. Burton loop with breakfast :-)
PS - Turns out I still remember how to ride my bike.
Meet you at the Y at 10 am
Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton, once touted as the next great American cyclist and an heir to Lance Armstrong's throne atop the sport, ended his doping-tarnished career Friday by saying he tested positive for a banned substance and would retire.
Hamilton admitted taking an herbal product for two days in February to combat depression, knowing it included a steroid.
"There's nothing to fight about," the 38-year-old Hamilton told The Associated Press. "I took a banned substance. I accept the consequences. You make mistakes in your life and I accept the penalty like a man."
Hamilton will likely receive a ban from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that may range from eight years to life, a sentence that would have ended his racing days anyway.
"He has had a cloud over his career for a while now and the sport is better off without him," said Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union.
Hamilton's win at the 2004 Athens Games was overshadowed by a blood doping scandal. He tested positive for doping a second time later that year, served a two-year suspension and returned to racing early in 2007 -- never revealing that he was fighting depression, which he said runs in his family.
Going through a divorce and seeing his mother fight breast cancer made things worse in recent months, Hamilton said.
Seeking relief, he took something called Mitamins Advanced Formula, billed as a "natural depression treatment with vitamins, herbs and supplements."
"Obviously, that was a mistake," Hamilton said.
In a statement, USADA said it will continue going through the process of issuing a sanction.
"Although Mr. Hamilton has now retired from the sport of cycling and has publicly accepted responsibility, this is a pending matter and USADA will make an announcement of the final outcome and imposition of the exact sanction in accordance with the rules when the process is complete, which should be in the coming months," the statement said.
The Mitamins product contains common things such as vitamins D, B-6 and B-12, along with thiamin, riboflavin and calcium. Each serving also contains 20 milligrams of a steroid called Dehydroepiandrosterone -- DHEA, as it's known.
"Clinical research has suggested that taking DHEA orally might improve the symptoms of depression," reads the company's website.
Hamilton said the amount of the steroid found in his system was "so, so low" and that subsequent tests, including ones later that same week before the Tour of California, all came back negative.
"I took it to help my mental state," Hamilton said. "I did not, 100 per cent, take it for any performance enhancement."
Hamilton said he was taking a prescription antidepressant called Celexa, and was feeling so badly a few months ago that he decided to double up on the dosage. After seeing no significant change in his mental state, Hamilton stopped taking the drug entirely.
He tried the Mitamins product, he said, on Feb. 6 and 7. USADA testers knocked on his door the next day.
"I was thinking everything would be fine," Hamilton said. "It might sound a little crazy, but I wasn't really worried. I wasn't really stressing about it. Maybe it's because of everything else I was going through. I don't know why."
About five weeks later, he learned everything was not fine.
Citing bronchitis, Hamilton did not ride in the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon in Spain -- the race where Armstrong fell and broke his collarbone. And he was expected to be the leader of Rock Racing's team for a race in Portugal earlier this month, but was replaced on the roster shortly before that event.
At the time, few knew why.
"This is, for me personally, a really tough day," said Rock Racing owner Michael Ball. "My personality is to always fight for what I feel is right."
Others around Hamilton also encouraged him to fight the latest positive test. Hamilton's attorney, Chris Manderson, said they were mapping "several different strategies" including one to file a federal suit against USADA over the testing.
"Tyler has decided he does not want to pursue that route," Manderson said. "He wants to focus on the reasons why he did what he did and he wants to focus on getting better and getting on with his life."
Hamilton won the road time trial at the Athens Olympics, capping one of the finest days USA Cycling had known.
Americans won three medals that day on a road along the Saronic Gulf, with Hamilton's gold and Bobby Julich taking the bronze in the time trial and Dede Barry winning silver in the women's time trial.
Soon after, Hamilton's first positive test for blood doping came back, but he was ultimately allowed to keep the gold medal because his 'B' sample collected in Athens could not be properly tested. A month later, he tested positive again.
Hamilton has long denied participating in blood doping, the transfusion of extra blood that can increase endurance because more red blood cells are available to deliver oxygen to muscles.
For this latest positive test, he denied nothing.
"I knew it was banned," Hamilton said.
Hamilton briefly considered himself retired last year, then returned to compete in several races, plus won USA Cycling's road race national championship by less than one one-hundredth of a second.
He doesn't know what he'll do next, other than focusing on his health and family.
"This isn't about a test. It's a bigger issue," Hamilton said. "It's a disease that I'm going through, that my family has gone through, that I need to take care of. Cycling is just a sport, racing your bike from Point A to Point B. What I'm going through is so much bigger."
Your Call
Also a Saturday AM ride 10:30 leaving from Adam's in New Maryland recreation ride with the Miss's's to Oromocto for light brunch.
@50km
I'd love to ride tomorrow as well. Likely easier for me to get to the Y than NM.
Bb Jazz
Count me in for 10am at Y
Count me in for 10am at Y
I'll likely be there as well for 10am.
will be there at 10 am
Darlene's got the flu, will be in for 10am a Y
Anyone for an afternoon ride? I'm thinking of rolling around 2.
Saturday AM, 13 riders, pleasant Spring day. Avg speed 28.9km/hr
Saturday Lunch ride went as planned for Mr and Ms No Doubt. 52km @ 20.4km/h. The roads were perfect, barely any wind, the sun was out and the company was good. A nice stop at the Sour Grape for a soup and panini to cap off my favourite ride so far of '09.
ride Sunday Morning see Front Page
I will be at seniors centre at 945am for ride
This is awesome! An NBer sporting the Canadian Champion jersey in Europe.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2009/apr09/amstel09/index.php?id=/photos/2009/apr09/amstel09/agr_brecht_20090419_084854_1
Hey one and all!
It's Maytag Mike aka Rat just to let you know I have been doing some riding solo given my shift work. Me and the Bubbles were on a cruise last week in the Carribean back on Sunday. Had a ride yesterday and this am. Went out at0630 as Bubbles is up and out the door at 0600. Had 53k in by 0810 and will likely go out early in the summer when I work evenings and maybe turn some into a commute with Smoothy.
By the way Smoothy the contacts work great for exercising and were perfect for snorkeling.
Not available for a ride until Sunday am but have to go out for 09-0930.
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