Sure, I’ll admit it.
The title of this post is clearly an attempt at pandering to the thousands of people–mostly male, I would suspect–who daily do Google searches for a glimpse–with as little clothing as possible, I would suspect–of the Michael Ball’s Rock Racking Girls.
While my blog stats tell me that I have gotten thousands of hits for that image of that nature, I can’t really tell if there are thousands of different guys or just one guy who REALLY want to see them.
Well, for that one guy, you will just have to live with the barely revealing image of a bare image that I captured at last year’s event.
This year’s Amgen Tour of California brought a whole different segment to our state capital in downtown Sacramento.
Last year we hosted the finish line for one of the stages of the road race. The conclusion was a thrilling blur of a huge pack of riders making three loops around the capital toward the finish line within a few feet of the capital building.
This year the race started here so we got the prologue, which consisted of an individual time trial.
So instead of a pack of riders, we got to see one rider at a time racing a 2.4 mile course, until crossing the finish line in a blur of one.
I was within inches of the finish line so I got to see the crowd favorite, Lance Armstrong make his appearance back on the world stage of bike racing.
I took pictures at the finish line of all the elite racers but I cannot honestly say the picture here is of Lance.
As a matter of fact, I cannot even say it was a bike rider.
For all I know it might have been the Great Chiweenie, who once again dropped in to visit us.
Bob Roll of the Vs.channel fame was on hand to do the TV commentary, and once again, my attempts at doing an interview of him lead to the same result.
I had no idea those cops could put me in a headlock so quickly and, wow, those handcuffs really leave a mark.
The Governator shared the stage with the winners, as can be seen in this picture of he and Lance.
Based partly on the appearance of Lance, a crowd of 100,000 was predicted.
I think fully half of them might have been from the news media based on the throng of fancy cameras.
In order to try to please everyone…well, maybe at least that one guy…here is a picture of this years awards presenters.
All that was missed was Michael’s Balls hands in an inappropriate place (see last year’s post).
But these two did a great job on their own and seemed to have the racers well in hand.
