Since it was just a two minute walk to the intersection we decided that we'd watch. It turned out to be a fairly popular spot to watch the racers. We watched from a little way up the hill so we had a view of the racers' approach and turn up Bear Valley Parkway. We just saw the mass of bikers so we couldn't pick out Lance from the rest of the main pack.
There's not much to see but I made a movie of the event. After all, how many times does a major bike race pass through your neighborhood?
Here's the line of cars leaving our little street (and some parked ones).
And here are the cars parked in front of our house. Notice the pickup parked beyond our mailbox.
The driver of the pickup is the person on the phone in front of the SUV on the left. He's asking somebody for help getting unstuck from the mud. He decided that the spot where our water pipes were replaced would be a great place to park. Unfortunately, it wasn't. He sank into the mud.He got out of the mud. We have new depressions for water to fill when it rains again.
Here's a Google Map of the part of the race we saw. We watched from the red pointer and the bikes travelled along the blue line (in the direction of the arrows).
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7 comments:
That's cool! The tour passed through SB years ago. Lately it has gone through Solvang. It is a pretty big deal around here.
Lance trains in the Santa Ynez Valley, too.
I had a hard time picturing where they were going in your video (non-spacially-oreinted brain), but I looked at the map on the Amgen site and that helped.
Lucky you!
Chuck, Were people ringing cowbells? How exciting that you saw Lance A., though I see from checking the Amgen site that a Levi won.
Very cool! Thanks!
I am going to share the film with my former student who does some bike racing!
nice action
Yes, those are cowbells being clanged. I was without my cowbell. I felt like Professor Liebowitz who, in a Far Side cartoon, had gone to the seminar without his duck.
Maybe next time I'll have a bell.
Lance A. used to live on 17th Street here in Escondido, the street we take when we go into town.
How exciting!
And you even got free excavation for a swimming pool.
Wow! That was pretty incredible! I don't know how that pack made that turn without wrecking! Thanks for the video! They are faaaast! And all the support team vehicles! What a lot of bicycles.
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