Today was the traditional time-trial (solo ride against the clock) prolog to the Tour de France, where media darling (and damn good cyclist) Lance Armstrong will be going for #7.<\/p>\n
Over the next three weeks, the peleton will be riding over 2,100 miles at race pace on a high-stakes trip around Europe.<\/p>\n
Check out this post<\/a> and photo<\/a>, showing Lance catching (and then passing) one of his major rivals, Jan Ullrich – who started the course one minute before him.<\/p>\n Lance finished second by two seconds to US phenom (and ex-teammate) Dave Zabriskie, with Lance’s main defender George Hincapie in 4th.<\/p>\n It’s going to be a great three weeks…check out the great TDF blog for frequent updates and be cooler than everyone else at the office.<\/p>\n Allez, Lance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was the traditional time-trial (solo ride against the clock) prolog to the Tour de France, where media darling (and damn good cyclist) Lance Armstrong will be going for #7. Over the next three weeks, the peleton will be riding over 2,100 miles at race pace on a high-stakes trip around Europe. Check out this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}