Saturday, February 17, 2007

3, 2, 1, BEEEEEEEP!

Okay - here we go! The Tour starts tomorrow in downtown San Fran and all I can say is let's get this thing going already! I've never had so much prep, planning, and hype before a race. Everyone on the team is just ready to hit that start line. We had a great camp and everyone seems to be hauling right now. So I'm excited to see how we fair against the big boys. And speaking of which - being as this is my first BIG race, I'm allowed a certain amount of gawking and awestruck-ness at the event, eh? So here we go. I'm just going to do this once and be done with it. In the last 2 days, I've had breakfast or dinner in the same room as Basso, Bettini, Rasmussen, Jens, Eki and of course all the U.S. stars. I'd have to say that Bettini has the biggest "aura" as the current Olympic and World Champ. And last night our team was introduced at the big gala by Paul Sherwin and Bob Roll. I'm not going to lie - it's been a little surreal. But now I have put all that junk out of my mind and just race my bike hard. I will say that this race is stacked with talent! If everyone is going well at the moment, it should be quite the epic battle. As far as our team, I've been amazed at the level of equipment, staff, and organization for this event. We're on arguably the best equipment at the tour (no kidding) and we'll have 2 soigneurs, 2 mechanics, along with Mark and Glen. So, that's all I got for now. If you can't make it out to Cali to watch, you can catch the action each night on VS. (formerly OLN) and some of the guys will be keeping daily blogs found at the team website. Thanks for following our progress and all the good luck wishes. I'll try to update when I can...

5 comments:

logangarey said...

I'm rooting for you Tom! I can't wait to see you shine during the tour. You and Scotty are probably cheezin ear to ear, Try to stay calm and keep your shammy clean.

Anonymous said...

Good luck, hell.

PEDALPEDALPEDALKILL!

Anonymous said...

good luck at the race, you should be good in the prologe cause of all the pursuits you've done.

Cody O'Reilly

Anonymous said...

Tom, I love you! You're so famous now. Will you marry me? - Joe H

logangarey said...

Twinkles!! Did you go down in that huge pile up the other day? I thought I saw you hopping back on your bike. Hope you're OK.

I saw a huge painted sign on the road during the race that said "THOR" I just wanted to let you know that, that was obviously for you and not that Euro trash baguette eating Norwegian hoser Hushovd. I am sure Hushy is a nice boy but he is in AMERICA now, and we don't like "outsiders".

I am so stoked to see you in this race. "Moooovin on up! To the pro side!!

Have fun storming the castle