so since i...

haven't been doing much riding, i'll comment on riding.

in the recent issue of procycling they have an article entitled flawed genius? this article goes over some excerpts of jan's autobiography that is only in german. the basic jist of jan's 'flawed genius' is that he cannot control his food indulgences, i.e., getting fat in the off season. so much so that the spanish media calls him el gordo, or in english the fat man. they have a pic of him ten years ago when he won the tour, and now. you can't tell much from the pic on the site, but in the mag...holy crap. what a freaking difference. good read.

the big difference, i believe, between lance and jan, well, lance and any other ride for that fact...lance did not believe in an off season. once on the podium he was thinking about the next tour, whereas jan was thinking about the party, and getting fat.

in the article they talk about stage fifteen of the thousand three tour, where lance got caught by the bag, and fell. jan slowed down to wait for him, well that was his doom. you may think what a good sportsman, but then lance made chopped meat out him after that. what if jan didn't wait for him? what would have happened? in any case...he's only at ninety percent