BIG THOR FOR STAGE 3

On a personal note, I am getting SUPER AMPED for Friday. Why, you ask? Well, on Friday morning my boy Ford and I will be attending the Stage 6 Time Trial in Solvang. Ahh, the ups of unemployment is freedom. On top of attending the event we will be riding from Santa Barbara to Solvang... it will be the ideal mini cycling get away. The kind that makes girls sick, because we will probably spend 12 hours straight talking cyling non stop. There will definitely be pics to follow.
Now the Stage 3 wrap up...

Another cold and rainy stage yesterday... and aside from the beginning crash with Levi, a pretty boring one at that. Although all was redeemed at the end of that stage in a classic bunch sprint. I am a big Thor fan, but where was Tomika and Cavendish. I was bummed to see Boonen miss out and the sprint and Cavendish struggle to find a wheel. Oh well that's the way it goes... the have another chance for a sprint points Thursday. So for now big ups to Thor.

Quoted from http://www.cyclingnews.com

Thor Hushovd (Cervélo TestTeam) has recorded win number one for 2009 with a powerful sprint on the wet streets of Modesto at the end of stage three. Cervélo rode the perfect train to deliver Hushovd to the line, ahead of Oscar Freire (Rabobank) and former teammate Mark Renshaw (Columbia-Highroad) after an uncomfortably wet and cold day in the saddle.

"Hayden Roulston started it with a little more than one kilometre to go, then Dominique Rollin pulled into the last corner," explained Hushovd. "Then Brett Lancaster took over after the last corner, and I passed him with about 150 metres to go. Our team did a great job today, and I am really thankful. It's the first time we've worked together and it went well, so that was a good start.

Cervélo's leadout was textbook; they lined up three ahead of him before the final kilometre and delivered him precisely to the line ahead of a disorganised peloton, something the experiened Norwegian paid tribute to. "I know that with these guys, we may be one of the best lead-out teams in the world, and I think today that we showed it," he said.