Wannabe Bike Girl

Someone on Twitter said to me (in reference to this tweet) that “[I'm] coming off just a bit obsessive…take a deep breath lol.” And, you know what? He’s totally right. My response was: “Just a bit? I am totally obsessed with cycling! Oh, you mean with LA hate? Well … I can’t quite deny that, either.”

And he really is right. It’s partly the type of person I am (obsessive), but it’s also the fact that watching Versus is like watching Lance Armstrong TV and it drives me crazy. But I don’t really want to talk about that right now, because we’ve all heard the rant and we’ll heart it again tomorrow. I was updating my TDF Diary just now and ended up reading some old TDF entries. I started with ‘04, back when I still liked Lance (but seemed to like other people more). It’s interesting because as the ‘04 Tour goes on, my bitterness grows. And by the time we get to the 2008 Tour, I’ve turned turned up the bitterness to massive levels. I’m not ashamed of it, I’m more amused. Obviously I’m still bitter, but at least I can laugh about it.

The other thing I noticed was that up until 2007, I was seriously naïve. I don’t mean just about cyclists, but about cycling. I mean, I understood a lot, but I bought the party line (though you could see little strings of disconnect slipping into what I’m writing). While I was never quite miserable about all the ‘big name’ positives (Landis, Hamilton, Vino, etc), it kind of makes me sad to go back and read about jsut how out of touch I, and perhaps the cycling world, was at the time(s). We worked so hard to pretend there wasn’t doping and I don’t know that we’ve come that far. It’s still far too easy to just pretend it doesn’t exist.

But all the same, I wouldn’t stop being a fan of the sport or stop blogging just because of a doper or just because Armstrong might win the TDF (I hope he doesn’t, but it’s not the end of the world if he does). It’s just sad to see how much I invested in Vino and Tyler and whatever. But luckily for me, I tend to be fickle about GC winners and contenders, because though many have tested positive, I’ve always moved on by then. Luckily for me.

Hey, it’s started! Looking for my TDF Diary? You’ll find it over here. It moved because I wanted to customize it more and I wasn’t ready to use wordpress yet. Anyway, enjoy and hopefully I will, too.

Just as a side note, I will be blogging the tour over at my TdF Diary. It’ll be a little different this year, more like 2005 than last year, because I’ll be working a lot more hours that clash with the tour. But that’s okay because I have a VCR and a lot of tapes. I plan to do my best not to spoil myself and watch the stages as soon as I can.

So, starting on July 7th, I’ll be doing my fourth blogging the tour. This is kind of really weird and awesome. This blog (Wannabe) started in May of 2004 and I blogged my first tour in July. One of these days, I’d like to blog the tour from France. But I have a lot to do first before that happens. And, hey, when it does happen, I hope to see Team Slipstream in the peloton.

A girl can dream, right?