Tour de Georgia weblog

HealthNet rider Doug Ollerenshaw's interactive weblog

dougollerenshaw.com

Doug Ollerenshaw rides for HealthNet-Maxxis, and is keeping a weblog of his race experiences this week at the Tour de Georgia.

He's also using a GPS and web application from Motion Based to track each day's ride, including elevation gain, wind conditions, his average heart rate, average speed, and distance.

The entire route can be exported to Google Earth.

Here's the dashboard for Stage 5.

Here's a shot of Ollerenshaw overtaking Trent Lowe during the ITT on Thursday.

Danielson takes Brasstown Bald, but Landis holds race lead

Landis delivers,
photo by Frank Steele.

Unbelievable. I'll never doubt Floyd Landis again. Before the stage, I thought there was no way he would be able to last mano a mano with Discovery's Tom Danielson.

But that's just what Landis did on the biggest climb in the Tour de Georgia, the 3 mile+ ascent of Brasstown Bald. Discovery's Danielson and Yaroslav Popovych took turns attacking Landis, who marked Danielson and eventually let Popo go. Discovery, realizing that Popovych wasn't going to get enough time to take the race lead, eventually let Danielson attack Popovych to try to finish Landis directly. Landis wasn't cracking.

Landis has got to top the short list of American Tour de France contenders, as he looks likely to add the 2006 Tour de Georgia title to the Tour of California and Paris-Nice titles he's already won this season.

Check out my Stage 5 Flickr photoset.

Pez offers TdG preview

PezCycling News | Preview: Tour de Georgia 2006

Jared Gruber at PezCycling News offers his look at this year's race. He's penciled in Landis 1st, Danielson 2nd, Zabriskie 3rd.

He notes that the time trial this year is a monster, at almost 40 kilometers with a healthy climb in the middle, and thinks that gives Landis the edge.

Gruber also looks at the tactical implications of the changes race organizers made to Friday and Saturday's mountain stages, cutting down the climbing in each, but spicing up Saturday's queen stage by coming over Hogpen Gap by the shorter, steeper route. On the race profile, it looks almost like that climb curves back on itself!

Also:

Podium Cafe | Tour d'of Georgia Time!