Thursday night's trainer workout whooped me. After a warmup, it was 50 minutes of accelerations, decelerations, harder gears, easier gears and everything in between. Sweat was dripping steadily and good puddle was left below me. Ooof!

Today's semi-cycling related news:

Armstrong, neighbors in flap over pool
DEAD MANS HOLE, Texas, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Lance Armstrong's neighbors near his Texas ranch aren't very neighborly any more because of a flap over a pond that has gone from clear to pea soup.

The blame for the discolored showpiece in the Hill Country west of Austin has been heaped on an ill-advised dam Armstrong built on Dead Mans Hole, then abandoned when things went wrong, the Houston Chronicle said.

Sediment from that project fouled the pond -- and fouled the neighborly attitude of residents near Armstrong's land, the newspaper said

The cycling champ says he is doing all he can to clean up the mess and has spent half a million dollars on it.

The once-pristine water has cleared some but there is an algae problem and the pond's bottom is slimy, the Chronicle said.

Photo of the Day: Another orchid picture.