Yeah, leilani, I thought it was a great article. Looks like it was written well back in the Spring & held for the start of the Tour, but it's clear that he didn't let on about his hip, eh? I've known for years that he'd had to leave Lancaster County, PA to ride bicycles the way he wanted to, but this article really fleshed out some of it for me.
Thanks for pinging nutmeg, I looked at the names I'd put in the To: field and was thinking I'd missed at least one. I've been deliberately not including nutmeg so her ping page wouldn't be filled w/ '25km, to go, so & so's got it!!!', etc crap, but definitely wanted her to see this one.
Our Stage 10 thread was the first to go over 100 (131), this one the first to hit 200/250 posts. LOL!!! on the '...and without post after redundant post...", I'd thought of that, too, when looking over the threads and their post counts last night as I added the keyword 'tdfstagethread' to all the Stage threads. Between all the '...that scumsucking scumsucker left his wife & kids!!...' and the '...that home-wrecking harpy harlot cheryl crowe sux rox!...' posts we probably are having more active ingredient posts, and certainly more fun, this year! ;>)