The saddle adjustment from a couple weeks ago got another adjustment today. After work, I went back from whence I came but not as far as before. The previous move had some benefits but there was a detrimental effect on longer rides and sustained efforts. Maybe this next move will strike a happy medium.

Yesterday's Amstel Gold was a good, attacking race. Graham Watson doesn't need any plugs for the quality of his work but I was struck by 2 or 3 of his photos right at the time that Schleck was about to make and was making his winning move. Bettini looks whipped in one photo and in another, a T-Mobile rider (Kessler?, Klier?) has his face twisted in absolute agony as Schleck rides away.

These guys are 10 levels above anything that we do locally. Still, it is always good to be reminded that they are human and suffer just as much as we do. They feel the same pain, the same burn of the legs, the ache of gasping lungs. But if you fight through the difficulty, results can happen.