Dra. Martha Andrea Castro Noriega
February 16, 2012 Leave a comment
Not the latest Giant bicycle model but definitely the one that has taking me to far away places and has never left me down. It´s a hybrid and her name is Dolly, because it´s like one of my cats, tough, fast and furious!
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| DOLLY, Dra Martha Castro Hybrid Bicycle |
October 31, 2011 1 Comment
I gave up having heroes who are still breathing and alive, just gave up. They conduct their lives in such a way that, eventually, they disappoint me, and frankly I don´t want to be hurt anymore.
That is why I am giving up on Lance Armstrong. But don´t take me wrong, I still admire his courage as a cancer survivor and as the great cyclist that he was for 7 years in the Tour de France.
But let us not forget that many other professional cyclists were fantastic not only in the Tour de France but in all Grand Tours, and others, they shined in many international professional cycling races and the Grand Tours too. Lance Armstrong only focused on the Tour de France, and he did great, no doubt, and for that he still has my admiration but he is not my hero anymore.
People who have passed away and have left a legacy of knowledge and accomplishments are now in my admiration book. They are dead, they cannot disappoint me anymore. So there. I choose Herbert Spencer to be my new subject of study, and I will be focusing my attention on him for everything he did and said.
I am still learning about him, his life, his assays, writings, etc.
For now, I will just leave you with a beautiful quote of his:
“Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insane inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honor should be somewhat changed.“
October 11, 2011 Leave a comment
Michele Bufalino says stages were also made publicly available on RCS Sport
After the earlier announcement today that ASO had inadvertently leaked the 2012 Tour de France details on the letour.fr website, the same may have also happened with the 2012 Giro details.
According to Michele Bufalino, the man responsible for the reporting on ‘motorised push bikes’ scandal, the route was made available on an English section of the main Giro website.
The first three stages in Denmark had already been officially made public last week, but the rest are yet to be officially announced.
Cyclingnews has requested comment from RCS Sport.
Alleged Giro d’Italia stages
5 May: Herning – Herning ITT (8.7 km)
6 May: Herning – Herning (206 km)
7 May: Horsens – Horsens (190 Km)
8 May: Rest day, transfer to Italy
9 May: Verona – Verona TTT (32.2 km)
10 May: Modena – Fano (199 km)
11 May: Urbino – Porto Sant’Elpidio (207 Km)
12 May: Recanati – Rocca di Cambio (202 km)
13 May: Sulmona – Lago Laceno (229 km)
14 May: San Giorgio nel Sannio – Frosinone (171 km)
15 May: Civitavecchia – Assisi (187 km)
16 May: Assisi – Montecatini Terme (243 Km)
17 May: Seravezza – Sestri Levante (157 km)
18 May: Savona – Cervere (121 km)
19 May: Cherasco – Cervinia (205 km)
20 May: Busto Arsizio – Lecco/Pian dei Resinelli (172 km)
21 May: Rest day
22 May: Limone sul Garda – Falzes/Pfalzen (174 km)
23 May: Falzes/Pfalzen – Cortina d’Ampezzo (187 km)
24 May: San Vito di Cadore – Vedelago (139 km)
25 May: Treviso – Alpe di Pampeago (197km)
26 May: Caldes/Val di Sole – Passo dello Stelvio (218 km)
27 May: Milano – Milano ITT (31.5 km)
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October 9, 2011 1 Comment
Paris-Tours 2011 ends today with a fantastic win by Greg Van Avermaet. Greg is still a considered a junior but he is so strong and with a great form on the bike that he reminded me of the good times of Lance Armstrong.
This video is 10 minutes but if you really love cycling as much as I do, 10 minutes is not long enough. So, click and enjoy it. There is a small crash almost at the end and the final moments are just breathtaking!
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xlkjb6
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October 2, 2011 Leave a comment
The Australian timed his sprint to the line perfectly, overtaking Team Sky’s CJ Sutton and powering home ahead of Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini – Neri Sottoli).
Sebastian Chavanel (Europcar) took third spot on the stage, with Sutton fourth on the 175km final stage.
Sutton was left disappointed that his team missed out.
“It was pretty close,” he said. “All the team were incredible. They were going so strong and perfect but we just ran out of the men after Kjell Carlström went home because his wife had a baby.
“The whole team rode awesome today but it just wasn’t meant to be. Robbie was on my wheel and so won. The better bike rider won.
“He’s classy and deserved to win it and he’s an Aussie too you can’t complain about that.”
McEwen earlier stated earlier in the week that his for the race was not to win the title, but to prepare for the Paris-Tours classic next week – and he could hardly have had a better warm-up.
Eurosport
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October 2, 2011 2 Comments
Q: Did this race ever become a mental challenge, and if so when?
A: No, because I didn’t expect to win. I was just going to go out and do my best, and I knew it was going to be awkward. I didn’t know that some things would be as awkward as they were. The swim-to-bike transition was very … just shifting from the cold water, shifting from going from an upper body exercise to a lower one is an adjustment.
Q: Did you think about the anniversary of being cancer-free today?
A: I didn’t today. I saw a lot of great support out there. A lot of Livestrong support, which is nice to see. Until you get to the last part of the race, and then you can’t see much of anything. I was basically cross-eyed. But you hear the voices, you hear the stories, even in passing and it’s cool.
Q: There was a new report released about possible steroid use. Do you have a comment on that? Do you think you can ever just go out and race?
A: I’m totally immune to any controversy. I’ve been listening to this stuff for 15 years, with the latest thing going on for 18 months. The other side … leaked tidbits on the weeks I’m doing something. This week I’m testifying before United Nations, doing events with mayor Bloomberg. Doing events with the Livestrong Foundation, I’m racing this weekend. It’s no accident that they leaked that this week.
Q: Do you have any tips for older athletes hoping to compete in triathlons?
A: I just got back in it. I am a pretend triathlete. I swam and I rode and I ran. Back in Austin, I swim, ride occasionally and run less than that.
Q: Was it different lining up against athletes of all abilities, rather than just pros?
A: I didn’t really notice. I was nervous, I was trying to stay focused on what I had to do today just because I was freaked out that it had been so long.
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October 1, 2011 Leave a comment
Fabio Taborre (Acqua & Sapone) took his second win of the year and the second victory of his career at the Memorial Pantani race, beating Davide Rebellin (Miche Guerciotti) and Daniel Martin (Team Garmin Cervelo) with a well-timed sprint.
Taborre was part of the key 15-rider breakaway that formed on the last climb and he still had the speed in his legs to win in the center of Cesenatico after other riders joined the move. Only 54 riders finished in the late summer heat in Italy.
The one-day race remembers Marco Pantani, who died of a cocaine overdose in 2004, just a few years after his double success in the 1998 Giro d’Italia and Tour de France. The race attracted a big-name field, with Alessandro Petacchi and Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD), Vincenzo Nibali and Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Italian national champion Giovanni Visconti (Farnese Vini-Neri) all on the start list.
A hard race in the heat!
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September 17, 2011 Leave a comment
Finally, a new cycling team I am looking forward to; small but strong, and if someone knows how to make it succeed, that is Julian Dean!
Seven-time Tour de France cyclist Julian Dean will spearhead a small but potent team in this month’s road cycling world championships in Denmark.
Dean will be joined by fellow Pro Tour rider Greg Henderson and Jack Bauer to form the three-strong men’s team for the world championships in Copenhagen from September 21-25.
Jesse Sergent and Bauer will compete in the time trial, while Linda Villumsen is the sole woman, competing in both the road race and time trial.
Director Sportif Andy Reid said selection for the three spots has been one of the toughest in recent times.
“We now have a number of riders in Pro Tour Teams and others racing to a high level both in Europe and USA,” Reid said.
“The course was also a key factor in our selections, with the race likely to favour the sprinters.
“Julian and Greg are world class sprinters who have had excellent success this year. We needed a strong rider on flat circuits to ride for them, have the potential to ride down breaks and do the donkey-work.
“Jack Bauer has proved he is extraordinarily strong and all three have been in top form this year.”
Henderson has had two wins this year on stage two of the Paris-Nice and stage three of the Tour of California; Dean was part of the Garmin team that won the team time trial and finished top team at the Tour de France and Bauer won stage two of the Tour of Utah.
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September 13, 2011 11 Comments
The philosophy of the true cyclist is to compete against yourself, to continue to pedal the road and never quit, to try again and again and again, as many times as necessary to finish. If you encounter adversity and you doubt about cycling being the most wonderful sport on earth, then cycling is not for you. Cycling is meant to be only for those who wish to win and conquer life itself.
September 11, 2011 2 Comments
Peter Sagan’s Vuelta a España debut got even better as the Liquigas-Cannondale rider made it three stage wins in this year’s edition by beating Italian sprinters Alessandro Petacchi and Daniele Bennati in the final stage through Madrid this afternoon.
The 21-year-old Slovakian sprung from nowhere in the finale and cheekily swept under the drag race between Petacchi and Bennati to take another stage win in his first grand tour and indicate that he’ll be a man to watch at the UCI Road World Championships later this month in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“It’s been a great day. I was riding at the front and I took the wheel of Bennati but I got boxed in a bit, so I had to stop my effort and had to re-start from behind. It was hard, but I was still fresh because my team protected me from the wind during the whole stage.
“I was only focused on winning today. It was a technical course, exactly what I like and I was feeling very well,” Sagan said.
1 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Geox-TMC 84:59:31
2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:13:00
3 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:01:39
4 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:02:03
5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Geox-TMC 0:03:48
6 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Leopard Trek 0:04:13
7 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:04:31
8 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:04:45
9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Katusha Team 0:05:20
10 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:05:33
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