Tour de 1/10th - Stage 15
Well, I have caught a little flack for having so much coverage of my Tour de 1/10th - I suppose for those who don't care about the Tour probably do not find it very interesting. As it is a huge part of my attempt to get back into "fighting form" however, I will still periodically post updates. This is more for myself to look back at as I plan on doing as Dave suggested and running this tour a couple times a year.



Lance Armstrong has done it again! Once again at the end of a torturous mountain stage, it was only Armstrong and Ivan Basso fighting it out at the top. Basso won the last time and this time around, it was all Lance. The big news though is that Jan Ullrich made a courageous breakaway effort and actually left the group with Armstrong for several miles. Team Postal however, did not panic and just kept their pace as they slowly reeled him in. This has to be more devastating to Ullrich's moral than if Armstrong had made a move and left him.

Stage 15
Valréas > Villard-de-Lans Tuesday, July 20th (112.2 miles)
1 ARMSTRONG Lance (USA USP) in 67h 13' 43"
2 BASSO Ivan (ITA CSC) at 01' 25"
3 KLÖDEN Andréas (GER TMO) at 03' 22"
4 MANCEBO Francisco (ESP IBB) at 05' 39"
5 ULLRICH Jan (GER TMO) at 06' 54"
6 AZEVEDO José (POR USP) at 07' 34"
7 TOTSCHNIG Georg (AUT GST) at 08' 19"
8 VOECKLER Thomas (FRA BLB) at 09' 28"
9 CAUCCHIOLI Pietro (ITA ALB) at 10' 10"
10 LEIPHEIMER Levi (USA RAB) at 10' 58"


158 DOELLE Christopher (USA T@I) at 20h 13' 47"

NEWS!!
Chris Doelle has moved up from position 189 to 158 and has actually slowed the rate of time loss as the mountain stages take their toll on the Tour riders.

- posted by Chris @ 8:40 AM