Crappy weather and Tour de France stuff
Jul. 26th, 2004 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayLast week, I couldn't seem to stay awake for more than a couple of hours without needing a nap and I actually slept fairly solidly all night. Obviously, my insane sleep patterns couldn't let that happen for long and now I'm back to only sleeping for an hour or so at a time. So I now need a nap because I've had somewhere in the region of three hours sleep last night. I also crippled my arm a little during the hour-long deep sleep I had and am now sleepy, cranky and ready to snap someone's head off. Grrrr. Insomnia and wacked-out sleep patterns suck muchly.
I don't know whether it's possible to miss the fact that Lance Armstrong won his sixth Tour yesterday, breaking all previous records for Tour victories. It was also a rather emphatic victory, with five individual stages won, and I loved it. He showed that cycling was a genuinely team sport (even I will admit that he wouldn't have won without a fantastic team) and it was an exciting race all round.
Just as exciting, I identified some young riders to keep my eye on. Lance can't last forever, no matter how strong he looks at the moment, and I want to have some riders that I can cheer on and genuinely like. Ivan Basso is one who comes immediately to mind - superb cyclist and the kind of rider I like. His time-trial skills need a little work so he can limit his losses better there, but he'll attack in the mountains and that's what I like to see. Thomas Voekler earned my admiration for holding onto the yellow jersey for so long - he's young, gutsy and should get some more stamina with age. Alexandre Vinokourov wasn't there this year due to injury, but he's another gutsy rider who attacks in the mountains and I'm going to be so conflicted when he rides against Basso :-) Jacob Piil could be the new Jacky Durand - he was in every break that went away during the first two weeks (I was sad to see his abandon), no matter how crazy the attack was. Floyd Landis did a fantastic job as Lance's lieutenant - he's fast, he's good on the climbs and his endurance has been steadily improving over the past couple of years. If he decided to find a contract with a team of his own in a couple of years, I'd be more than happy (although I'd like to see him continuing as a lieutenant for a couple of years - he, Azevedo and Hincapie were all incredible).
I seem to have a thing for riders with lots of guts and plenty of character and I'm glad to see that the younger generation has a plenty of riders that I'm going to have fun watching.
The weather here is damp and gross. This may be why I feel so crappy today - damp weather is never a good thing for me. I'm tempted to just goof off and read fanfic, but I have to get some work done on this research project so that I can send in an assignment at the end of next week. Don't suppose anyone would like to do it for me? No? Ah, well.
Five Things That May Never Happen to SG-1 is currently with my beta so, depending on beta time, it will hopefully be up with the rest of this month's update at the end of the week. Yay, I've almost finished a fanfic!
I don't know whether it's possible to miss the fact that Lance Armstrong won his sixth Tour yesterday, breaking all previous records for Tour victories. It was also a rather emphatic victory, with five individual stages won, and I loved it. He showed that cycling was a genuinely team sport (even I will admit that he wouldn't have won without a fantastic team) and it was an exciting race all round.
Just as exciting, I identified some young riders to keep my eye on. Lance can't last forever, no matter how strong he looks at the moment, and I want to have some riders that I can cheer on and genuinely like. Ivan Basso is one who comes immediately to mind - superb cyclist and the kind of rider I like. His time-trial skills need a little work so he can limit his losses better there, but he'll attack in the mountains and that's what I like to see. Thomas Voekler earned my admiration for holding onto the yellow jersey for so long - he's young, gutsy and should get some more stamina with age. Alexandre Vinokourov wasn't there this year due to injury, but he's another gutsy rider who attacks in the mountains and I'm going to be so conflicted when he rides against Basso :-) Jacob Piil could be the new Jacky Durand - he was in every break that went away during the first two weeks (I was sad to see his abandon), no matter how crazy the attack was. Floyd Landis did a fantastic job as Lance's lieutenant - he's fast, he's good on the climbs and his endurance has been steadily improving over the past couple of years. If he decided to find a contract with a team of his own in a couple of years, I'd be more than happy (although I'd like to see him continuing as a lieutenant for a couple of years - he, Azevedo and Hincapie were all incredible).
I seem to have a thing for riders with lots of guts and plenty of character and I'm glad to see that the younger generation has a plenty of riders that I'm going to have fun watching.
The weather here is damp and gross. This may be why I feel so crappy today - damp weather is never a good thing for me. I'm tempted to just goof off and read fanfic, but I have to get some work done on this research project so that I can send in an assignment at the end of next week. Don't suppose anyone would like to do it for me? No? Ah, well.
Five Things That May Never Happen to SG-1 is currently with my beta so, depending on beta time, it will hopefully be up with the rest of this month's update at the end of the week. Yay, I've almost finished a fanfic!
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:39 am (UTC)Thank you. I'm not so confident, but then I think that everything I write sucks so I'm not the best judge :-)
Fanfic never does happen the way you want it to ::sigh::
No siree, it doesn't. You get this great idea and either it sucks when you've worked through the details, so you don't finish it, or the finished thing doesn't quite turn out to be the masterpiece you thought it would be. Sometimes the plot doesn't even turn out the way you'd expected, never mind the theme or the atmosphere.
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:56 am (UTC)