FTDF Stage 4 - Griepel Goes, Cav Crashes

Well howdy folks, happy July 4th Y'all.

I'm not sure I really approve of those ungrateful Colonials kicking out their benevolent British rulers. On the others and , I get the day off work, so I'm not going to complain. Then again, if I was still back in the UK, I would have had 3 days off for the Queen's Jubilee - but it probably would have been raining. 

As it was, I spent today getting up way too early, and doing something most uncharacteristic for me. I went and did some of the running. If you've had the honour to know me in real life, you may know that I'm not a big fan of the running. It's bad for your knees you know.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that I made it round, and I even beat Batman and Superman. And the good news is, I won't be doing anymore running for about a year, because we all know, cycling is where it's at...... come to think of it, I think there's a race on right now.......Stage 4 of the Tour De France always looked like a sprint, and it was. No sign of Cav in the mix though, as he crashed. Looked nasty, but apparently he and teammate Eisel will both be starting tomorrow.

With no Cav around, it was Andre Griepel who took the stage, helped by a textbook bit of leading out from his Lotto-Belisol train.

To the mini league, and the Nadgers are showing no sign of letting go of the top of the table. 

MINI LEAGUE SCORES

Tour De Pance

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Flamin` nadgers	Andrew Windrum	2321
2		Hell of the North	Vincent Lavallee	1863
3		The Charmers	Craigatron	1726
4		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	1693
5		Return of Reflex	Karl	1594
6		TEAM ITV4	Andrew Danson	1526
7		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	1470
8		Velo raptors	Warwick Anderson	1458
9		temple of FROOME	Tom	1432
10		Drews Riders Using Genuine Supplements	Drew Stephenson	1420
11		Crazy Uncle Vince	Baby Lavallee	1360
12		Cejay`s Vanguard	Cejay	1313
13		Team Awesomeness	William MacKenzie	1243
14		TheFastMenOnBikes Part II:THE SEQWHEEL!	Teagan	1236
15		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	1200
16		RaboBrad	Brad	1189
17		Rouleurs	tdm911	1188
18		Its Sky Time	Mark	1077
19		To Infinity and Beyond	Nick Cuthbert	1066
20		15	Joe Danson	970
21		10 minute team	dspeck	968
22		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	930
23		Ph.Dizzles	Ben	796
24		Looking Good in Lycra	Catherine Windrum	785
25		Marmite Men	Alasdair MacKenzie	740
26		Dexter`s Midnight Wheelers	noj	736
27		Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	702
28		Ned`s Boys	Elizabeth MacKenzie	686
29		Smugblokes	Mark Philo	616

Coming up tomorrow, we have Stage 5. And most likely another sprint. Will Cav be up there? Or will a lack of skin hurt his top-end speed? And will Matt Goss win a stage? I'd like it if he did.

Anyway the 4th of July isn't over, so I better get in the Independence day spirit with some fireworks and booze. Always a good idea.