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La Ronde 2008

Early evening ride to the Old Port

Espinosa Family Reunion 2008 - Day 3, Picnic

Picnic at Ashbridge Bay Park

Espinosa Family Reunion 2008 - Day 2, Dinner

Dinner at the Port Union Community Center, Scarborough, Ontario

Espinosa Family Reunion 2008 - Day 2, Daytime

Breakfast at the Delta Chelsea, sightseeing on Yonge St, visit and some shopping at the Eaton Centre

Espinosa Family Reunion 2008 - Day 1

Drive to Toronto, visit to Niagara Falls

Filippo Pozzato's Liquigas Cannondale SuperSix

Pippo's green dream machine

Filippo "Pippo" Pozzato (Liquigas) is no shrinking violet. Rarely a race goes by without him unveiling a new pair of shoes - like the flowery ones he wore at Milano-Sanremo this year - or a new paint scheme for his bike. His flowing blonde hair is always immaculate (before the races anyway) and off the bike he drives a Ferrari and is one of the most style conscious riders in the peloton. At this year's Le Grand Boucle the 2006 winner of La Primavera is hoping to add to his tally of two stage victories astride a Tour de France commemorative special.

As a classics specialist, the Italian has been trying to get himself into breakaways this year to have some chance of getting that stage victory. On stage 11's transitional parcours into Foix he was a member of the group that managed to escape the peloton but unfortunately missed the decisive split in the closing stages and finished a disappointed 7th behind CSC-Saxo Bank's Kurt-Asle Arvesen. He hasn't managed to feature since, but as soon as the race leaves the Alps in the journey towards Paris we fully expect him to try his luck at least once more.
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Lunch at the Towne Hall

Sam wanted to take me to this new place he discovered.

It is the Towne Hall, just across the Monster Gym on Brunswick Blvd, Pointe Claire.

Sea Bass dish over peas and mushrooms - loved it

sprinkle with a little bit of pepper

Sam with our server - great service, and the place looks great!

http://www.townehall.ca/

After dinner walk with a very pregnant Lalaine

Tita Nil, Paul, Lalaine and I go for a walk around the neighborhood after a very delicious pasta dinner prepared by Tita Nil .Yummy! Tummy!! ;-))

this is our action pose ;-)

Late TGIF afternoon ride with Uncle Pilo aka Felino

Feeling much better after nursing a cold for the last few days, beautiful weather, I and Uncle Pilo decided we wanted to go for a ride - meet up somewhere along the Lachine Canal bike path and ride to the Old Port and back.

We said we'd go on a leisurely pace, but, having a good tailwind behind us, we average over 30 kph on the way the Old Port.

The ride back wasn't too bad, considering that this time we had to ride against a headwind. We still manage to average around 25 kph.

so we get to the Old Port, we decided we wanted to have a coffee break, Pilo decides he was going to buy, get coffee and muffin, and he comes back with coffee and this, Beavertails ;-))

tough to say no to Beavertails, specially when already bought and paid for ;-)), it was a good source of energy as we rode back against a headwind

talking on the phone with Mom, getting the latest update regarding brother Nick-Nick

thanks for the coffee and Beavertails (aka cycling energy food) Uncle Pilo

lock, loaded, and ready to head back home

Walk after dinner

Walk after dinner, originally uploaded by airpurifiers_r_us.

walk around the Place Riviera area, new houses in the area

Tour de France Update

17:55 - The New Top Five Of General Classification

After 3,001.5km of racing the top five of the general classification is:

1. Carlos Sastre (ESP) CSC
2. Frank Schleck (LUX) CSC - at 1’24"
3. Bernhard Kohl (AUT) GST - at 1’33"
4. Cadel Evans (AUS) SIL - at 1’34"
5. Denis Menchov (RUS) RAB - at 2’39"

17:53 - Top 10 In Stage 17, The top 10 in the 17th stage is:

1. Carlos Sastre (ESP) CSC - 210.5km in 6h’07’58" (34.323km/h)
2. Samuel Sanchez (ESP) EUS - at 2’03"
3. Andy Schleck (LUX) CSC at 2’03"
4. Alejandro Valverde (ESP) GCE - at 2’13"
5. Frank Schleck (LUX) CSC - at 2’13"
6. Vladimir Efimkin (RUS) ALM - at 2’15"
7. Cadel Evans (AUS) SIL - at 2’15"
8. Denis Menchov (RUS) RAB - at 2’15"
9. Christian Vande Velde (USA) GAR - at 2’15"

All the news flashes from the TDF 2008 site

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Maiden ride with Giro Atmos helmet

Rode once again from Pierrefonds near Sources blvd to the Kirkland Colisee via the Pierrefonds Blvd. bike path, turning left on Château Pierrefonds and winding my way through the Kirkland side streets. I'm glad I found my way around going to and coming back.

33.9 km ride, strong winds heading west, tail wind going back

reaching the Kirkland Colisee parking lot, Kirkland, QC

casting a shadow

Giro Atmos helmet

light grey, almost white

rear

front

posted earlier this comment: "the giro atmos helmet is so light, my head feels like it's not covered, i mean, lots of air flowing through and breezing through, cooling my head, as if it's exposed, nothing covering it, i had to check a couple of times just to make sure the helmet was still there ;-))"

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Mommy's Fish and Chips Fix

Every now and then I get a craving for Mommy's Fish and Chips and today I got my fix, which should be good for at least a couple of months ;-)).

medium fish n chips, with ketchup for Tita Nil

medium fish n chips, without ketchup for Tito Lits

St. Joseph Blvd. in Lachine, walking towards the Rossi Bicycles Store, shopping for a new cycling helmet.

Giro Atmos at Rossi was $170.00. Paul called Cycles St. Laurent, checked with Howard - $148.00 tax-in. Wooohoooo!!

From Lachine, we drove to Bombardier near Parkway Motors to pick up Trish from work, then we headed to Cycles St. Laurent to pick up the Giro Atmos helmet, it was also there where we met up with Pauly.

After transacting our business at Cycles St. Laurent, we parted ways with Pauly Boy (on his way to pick up Lalaine), then we drove to Vanier College, a couple blocks away, to pick up Pam from work, and we all (Tita Nil, I, Trish, and Pam) drove back home, altogether in one CRV. ;-)))

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OVERALL STANDING BY POINTS - end of stage 7

OVERALL STANDING BY POINTS

1.KIRCHEN K.

THR

28h 23' 40"

2.EVANS C.

SIL

00' 06"

3.SCHUMACHER S.

GST

00' 16"

4.VANDEVELDE C.

TSL

00' 44"

5.MENCHOV D.

RAB

01' 03"

6.VALVERDE A.

GCE

01' 12"

7.MILLAR D.

TSL

01' 14"

8.DEVOLDER S.

QST

01' 21"

9.PEREIRO SIO O.

GCE

01' 21"

10.LÖVKVIST T.

THR

01' 21"

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stage 7 - Brioude Aurillac 159 km

Luis Sanchez: King of the Descending Finish!

Luis Sanchez earned a second victory for the Caisse d’Epargne squad
this year after an attack on the descent of the final climb in stage
seven. He bolted into the lead with four kilometers to go an, just as
he did on the downhill of the col du Tanneron in Paris-Nice, held off
the charge of the peloton to claim victory ahead of an elite field. Of
the top five in the stage to Aurillac, three have worn the yellow
jersey in the 2008 edition while sixth place when to Sanchez’s
team-mate, the 2006 Tour champion Oscar Pereiro. So ended a stage that
boasted a major bout of action at the halfway mark, when CSC split the
peloton to pieces with a fine display of teamwork that rid the yellow
jersey’s peloton of the rider in the polka-dot jersey and caused over
half the field to lose significant time.

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WITNESS: Virtual friends in a cancer world

Janet Guttsman is bureau chief for Reuters in Canada, and has worked for the company in Germany, Russia and the United States. When she's not running the Canadian news file, she enjoys long bicycling trips in Canada and beyond. In the following story she writes of the support she received online after a diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer.

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Saturday In the Town

Carribean Festival, Jazz Festival, Old Montreal / Old Port Fireworks with Pam and Allen, Trish, Nil and I

Bike Ride with Paul

Have you ridden your bike lately?