frustration.....

ok, so last evening we settled in to watch sunday's tour stage.....we couldn't watch it sunday evening because my mother had moved her vcr, and somehow changed her settings...the tape ran out before the race ended....and so we had 2 tapes to watch on monday...the first andf then the ending she taped for us in sunday primetime that included the end......and so when tape 1 ran out, we popped in tape 2......ti find that it contained only the end.....as in the wrap up....and not the last 15 k of the actual race......seems my mom wasn't clear on what was meant by the end.....and so my spouse was on the phone with her last night making sure she had her vcr set correctly, and making sure that she had the start time programmed in....the stage itself was intense......with michael rasmussen of denmark ahead the entire way, with several folks close behind.....there was a trragic mishap where michael rogers (aussie?) hit a guardrail and a spanish rider named arroyo hit him, and flipped over the guardrail into the culvert....he spaniard climbed right up the hill, and got on that bike and rode away, but rogers appeared to be quite hurt, and though he, too, rodse away....he abandoned soon after with major injuries....it was so sad to see this fellow sobbing...in both physical and emotional pain.......hopefully today's stage will be less dramatic......