2013 Amgen TOC *spoilers*

Whoa...I didn't see that. 

I'm wondering if the non-WT teams are taking this seriously, as it's a chance to showcase themselves on home-turf, whereas the WT teams are either training for the TDF/Vuelta or just fulfilling sponsor obligations(e.g., mailing it in)?

When you got studs Jensie and Thor and Grabsch finishing 15-20 minutes down, it wasn't full gas. Just sayin'. 

I think it's because you've got the Giro at the same time, you've got the heat mentioned in your first post that Euros probably would prefer not to even mess with, and you had that explosion yesterday that did funny things to the standings.  

The pictures on twitter from some of the riders and the broom car were just painful.  I've seen a lot of people go down for heat exhaustion/heat stroke (mostly in the military).  There were definitely some across that 104 degree body temp line in those pictures.  When you willingly lay on a black top in that heat because you can't not lay on it, you are in shock...

I would like to see an overhead shot of that finish, because it looked impossible from the angle I saw.

That was great. I was on the trainer watching the last hour and a half. Talk about motivation.

Exciting finish too. Good to see Garmin-Cervelo and Farrar take the last stage. Especially as I was sitting on an R3

several sharp turns near the finish. going to be hard to keep the trains together. If a break doesn't make it it'll be another Sagan Farrar showdown.  get your high speed camera ready!

Jensie!  Jensie! Jensie!

Easily, easily my favorite pro athlete, evah. If you're on twitter, follow @thejensie - entertaining to say the least. And love the way he goes about, well, being Jens. To sorta paraphrase: "Yeah, we wanted to make a break, and I was stronger than everyone there, but not really a sprinter, so I turned a corner with 5K to go and said "this is the only way to beat the sprinters, I'm all in". Boom. 

And I can't even imagine how 6 of the top 10 missed the split today, THEN, upon realizing they missed the split (and saw them 10 seconds ahead, they all did), didn't TT it up to the crew. Crosswinds be damned. At some point you've gotta burn a match. 

So Happy for Jens!

What a brilliant move!

Loved his huge grin in the post race interview as well.

That interview was great.  He looked like a twelve year that just hit the game winning shot.  As I realize that I'm grinning ear to ear watching it, I look over and my wife is doing the same.  I really hope he has the gift of commentary (and it sure seems like he would) and pursues it on a channel I get.