LIVESTRONG Ride evolves in to a more powerful event for 2006
Watch avflive live video and chat on Justin.tv On October 2, 1996, Lance Armstrong was presented with the greatest challenge of his life when he was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs. He took on that challenge and won. Today Lance is a survivor, a father, an athlete, a competitor and a seven-time Tour de France champion. Now he accepts a new challenge to make cancer a national priority and he needs you to join his fight.
We’re excited to announce that the 2006 LIVESTRONG® Ride Series has evolved into a greater, more powerful event. On March 1, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) is re-launching the 2006 LIVESTRONG Ride Series as the 2006 LIVESTRONG Challenge. The LIVESTRONG Challenge will include the original bike ride as the signature event, as well as a 10K run and a 5K run/walk for people of all ages and capabilities. Additionally, the LIVESTRONG Challenge will feature a full 10-week training component presented by Nike for all registered participants.
Starting March 1, 2006, you can register at livestrongchallenge.org for one of the five LIVESTRONG Challenges that initially interested you: Southern California – June 25 Portland, OR - July 30 Denver, CO – August 20 Philadelphia, PA – September 10 Austin, TX – October 8
Later in March, you’ll receive a brochure in the mail with more information. Be on the lookout! In the meantime, if you have questions, please contact a coach about this unique event. Call 888.4.CHALLENGE (888.424.2553). We look forward to your involvement in the LIVESTRONG Challenge and remember, your involvement supports the LAF’s mission to inspire and empower people affected by cancer. >Walk. Run. Ride. Rise to the Challenge.
The LIVESTRONG Challenge Team (c)2006 Lance Armstrong Foundation Events
Chasing
Lance - The "docureality" show produced by the Discovery Networks Travel Channel
aired on Thursday night, Dec 22. It was a big success for the
thousands of fans of Lance's who showed up at the TourWatch 2005 viewing
party at Central Market. It showed some great coverage of Rob and Spencer Sartin and I'm glad they
used a lot of my "additional footage" and I appreciate the screen credit.
See more of my comments on the Tour of Texas Blog.
Many local Austin media outlets carried coverage of this event. On the last
day of the Tour de France several thousand people showed up to cheer Lance
on and sign several giant yellow cards that the Outdoor Life Network brought
to the event. An army of podcasters showed up at the event and
published daily podcasts of event.
Sheryl Crow rocks Austin on Town Lake
Lance thanks Austin, Texas at a great concert on Town Lake at the beginning of October - 10/2 to be exact - and we thank you Lance, for winning for cancer, and thank Sheryl for the greatest sounds in the world. You guys rock!
Thanks to all the folks who came to TourWatch 2005 at Central Market July 24th and signed the big card for Lance and signed our Tour of Texas "video card" to Lance! The Tour of Texas was sponsored by Circuit City, Grande Communications, Austin Podcasting, and 24 Hour Fitness.
A Team is now forming to plan and carry out the "Tour of Texas" cycling excursion. Join us! Be a sponsor or be part of our team.
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Lance go for number 7
Tour of Texas TourWatch 2005 Monster Podcast of Stage 15 at the Tour de France on July 17, 2005 Sunday was the biggest stage in the Pyrenees, a great day for Lance and an awesome day for George Hincapie who won the first stage ever by a member of Lance’s teams over all these years. Hincapie has been Lance’s most faithful lieutenant throughout the years. And it was a huge day at Central Market, where it was standing room only and the crowd went wild with Lance’s performance and the Hincapie win. Quotes of the Day for Sunday July 17 "The day’s runner-up will have mixed emotions tonight. There’s no doubt that Armstrong has an answer for every assault thrown at him but he must be wondering what happened to the team of champions his team employed for one purpose; to help him win a record seventh title in his final race as a professional" - letour.fr Some other big questions were raised: How did Armstrong find himself alone -- again -- so early in the action? Why does T-Mobile keep chasing down Vinokourov? Should he revert to the pink jersey so they recognize he's on their team? How many times can Armstrong finish 2nd in a single Tour? - tdfblog.com "I'm fed up with all those questions about my morale and my mental strength," Ullrich said. "I crashed twice in the beginning of the Tour but I don't think I have lacked morale or ambition". - Jan Ullrich at Eurosport Austin American Statesman Article June 24
Trek Sports Drink, the first sponsor of the TourWatch 2005, is giving away samples of sports drinks throughout the event. And they are holding a contest to see who can do the best commercial for Trek. Here's the first entry in the Trek Sports Drink Commercial Contest. Paul Terry Walhus conceived of the TourWatch 2005 as an event to bring Austin folks together and provide a creative outlet for established and new "podcasters". He invited the Tour of Texas to join with him in holding this event and Gilbert from Circuit City South Austin chipped in with all the big tvs and computers to run the event. Grande Communications pulled off a miracle by laying fiber optic cable to the event in record time and at considerable expense. And Rob Sartin with the LAF Peloton Project is at a table giving out LAF literature and fans. 24 Hour Fitness has been a major presence at the event in conjunction with their new Lance Armstrong Fitness Center.
I'll also post the Cycling Insight guys recording of our interview
because I suspect it will be of better quality than the one I did on the
skype session. I'm also looking for more Austin folks to interview (video podcast and audio podcast) so come by the Trek table if you have something to say and would like me to podcast it on this site. I'll also be doing podcast interviews with more of the world's top 50 podcasters. And I'll be more than happy to help you get started if you are a budding podcaster by showing you how podcasts are done or by helping you create your own podcast. The Discovery Network and Travel Channel sent a 2 person crew (Bill Delano and Talia Pulver) to produce a reality show on the Trek TourWatch 2005 Event. Bill and Talia are in Austin from June 28th through July 3rd. Their "reality documentary" will air in September and will include character pieces on Rob Sartin (LAF Pelton Project) and Robs son Spencer , Paul Terry Walhus (TW2005 Founder) and Gabriel, one of Lances biggest fans. KEYE TV 42's Allison Smith did a special newscast called "Austin Prepares for the Tour" on Sunday, June 26 when we started setting up our equipment for the event. Allison's segment includes and interview with Paul Terry Walhus, a live interview with Ted Arnold and some nice shots of Spencer Sartin. The Friday June 24 issue of Austin's major metropolitan newspaper has an article called Central Market to be Lance Central. The Austin Statesman site is doing a comprehensive Tour coverage section. Fox 7 Sports Dennis de la Pena interviewed Paul Terry Walhus at Central Market on July 1 as part of their live coverage of the TourWatch 2005 event. The TourWatchTM 2005 is being produced by the Tour of Texas The event is sponsored by Grande Communications, Circuit City, Trek Sports Drink, 24 Hour Lance Armstrong Sport Club, Central Market, the Spring, and the Tour of Texas (coming in the Fall, a bicycle adventure excursion around Central Texas). Newsweek is carrying a piece about the event called Sports Tour de Lance in the June 26 issue, on news stands soon. It's in an article about Tour watching parties all over the US.
The TourWatch 2005 will be showing the Tour de France on two 61" large screen high definition televisions compliments of Circuit City. The TourWatch 2005 crew of podcasters, radio announcers and telecasters will bring your their own commentary and spin on the Tour which will be broadcast at the event and over the Internet.
Central Market, Grande Communications, AustinCast, the Spring, 24 Hour Lance Armstrong Fitness, the Tour of Texas, Trek Sports Drink and Circuit City are the prime sponsors of the event. The Event was conceived of and founded by Paul Terry Walhus. TourWatch 2005 featured a daily podcast, radio and tv show spots with many local celebrities from the sports, fitness, radio, tv, blogging, podcasting and entertainment communities. It is available at http://touroftexas.com/blog
The podcasters interviewed local Austinites who followed the race and did interviews with Tour enthusiasts around the world via phone and skype. The interviews have been syndicated over the Internet in the form of podcasts which Tour followers can subscribe to. If you want to be a podcast star, come by our podcast table at the event, and we'll set you up behind a microphone and help you create your own podcast. Or we'll interview you if you are a Lance fan or Tour de France enthusiast. We'll be doing video interviews for television and video podcasts in high definition tv. So if you want to be a tv star, come by our booth and record an interview or do your own little show. Sponsorships are available for the next event, the Tour of Texas, call 512-699-4000 for details. We're very happy with the way our video of Lance's sendoff event on June 19th came out. The occasion was the opening of Lance's own sports club but he didn't promote it much in his talk, he talked mostly about his upcoming bid for a seventh Tour de France win and what he'll do apres le tour ("race toward the city limits signs"). He plans to stay fit and active. We're excited about Tour of Texas. We hope you join us at this coming event. We hope you join our organizing committee and volunteer to help set this up. Email touroftexas@touroftexas.com
Directions to TourWatch 2005 at Central
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Homecoming 2004 Party for Lance picture album
Fall Event - Tour of Texas cycling excursion Do you want to ride some of the very roads Lance trains on? This is a bicycle tour of the Hill Country, to include downtown Austin (you gotta eat), Zilker Park/Barton Springs, the Bastrop area and much more. We need route suggestions, group leaders... anyone who'd like to join this inaugural tour. Tour will include lodging in Bastrop. Hiking, swimming, running trails available for the 'out of the saddle' days. This event will be partly sponsored by Spring Internet, Spring Beverage Company, AustinBlogger.com, Trek Sports Drink, and more to come. More info to come. Contact touroftexas@touroftexas.com to volunteer or make suggestions. We're excited about TourWatch 2005. We hope you join us at this event in July. We hope you join our organizing committee and volunteer to help set this up. Email touroftexas@touroftexas.com Bicycling Events in Central Texas Summer 2005 July
Ride a Leg of the Tour de France
By Scott Aiges
Loire Valley, France If it was easy, we'd all be Lance Armstrong. Riding the toughest race course in the bicycling world isn't for the faint of heart or soft of tush. It does, however, take riders through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Up and down the Alps. Up and down the Pyrenees. Up and down the ... well, never mind. One leg of the Tour slopes through the verdant fields — and vineyards — of the Languedoc Roussillon wine region, along the Cote d'Azur. The Tour takes place every July, but for those not planning on competing with a hundred speed-demon professional racers, a better bet might be a ride in September when the roads are clear, the weather is fair and the harvest is in. Instead of sweating through 150 miles in a day, riders can cruise at a leisurely pace, and even stop for picnics of charcuterie and cheese and wash it down with a brave little vintage from just up the road. A number of companies lead bicycle tours of this and other parts of France. Biking in the Loire Valley is particularly stunning. Often the tours allow riders to set their own pace and bikers rest each night at an inn or a chateau. Dinners offer the best of the local gastronomy. Best of all, every day works off the calories consumed the night before. from http://travel.discovery.com/ideas/culture_attractions/101/sport/1.html Sirius Satellite Radio to Broadcast Exclusive Conversations With Lance Armstrong as Part of Special Reports From 2005 Tour de France
Thursday, June 02, 2005 - Sirius Satellite Radio to Broadcast Exclusive Conversations With Lance
Armstrong as Part of Special Reports From 2005 Tour de France 'Lance in
France' ... Off The Bike and On The Mic' to air daily on FACTION channel
NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI - News) announced today an exclusive series that will allow subscribers to follow Lance Armstrong in a personal way during his quest for an historic seventh consecutive Tour de France victory when Lance in France ... Off The Bike and On The Mic, debuts July 2, the first day of the Tour. |
One More Hill to Climb article from NY Post.
Austin, Texas Friday, June 10, 2005 U.S. cycling phenomenon Lance Armstrong, preparing for his final Tour de France, denies rumors that he and Sheryl Crow have split. "Sheryl and I were in the car yesterday when somebody called us about the story", he told TV Guide in a telephone interview from Austin, Texas. "It is completely untrue." photo by Velogal quote from the KC Star report: Commercial. “And there goes Armstrong, coming up behind Ivan Basso like a scolded cat!” Commercial. Wait, what was that? Liggett and Sherwen, both former cyclists, are reason enough for many to watch Armstrong’s quest for a seventh straight yellow jersey. OLN is reporting a 46-percent increase in gross viewing of this year’s Tour, so more and more Americans are finding out what cycling fans have known for years: Liggett and Sherwen’s love for cycling is infectious. As stage 15 neared its end Sunday, Liggett described the scene of Armstrong, Basso and Jan Ullrich, the Tour’s three biggest names, riding next to each other: “They’re turning the screw hard. Three unbelievably superb athletes, locked together in battle, all of them too proud to say, ‘I’m tired, I’ve had enough.’ ” To Liggett and Sherwen, a cyclist is a warrior. He takes on a mythological air, sometimes having to “dig into his suitcase of courage,” according to Sherwen. Liggett and Sherwen, in their yearly travels through Europe, have become close friends with Armstrong, who has a cushion of 2 minutes, 46 seconds with 600 miles left. They shared some of their insights on Armstrong’s final ride in a conference call on Monday. First of all, the Tour’s narrators see the race’s result as a foregone conclusion. “The only thing that could prevent Lance from winning would be an accident, an illness, or not sleeping himself properly,” said Liggett, who has been announcing cycling for more than 30 years. “Physically, he’s proved he’s equal to or superior to anything anyone can throw at him. He’s so dominating, he’s a frightening character. There isn’t a man who can actually believe he can beat him. They really did try to attack him early, but it was so effortless for him to catch up. They were demoralized.” Armstrong, who is dating singer Sheryl Crow, has become a national celebrity. Many people wondered whether Armstrong had the focus he’d had in years past entering his final Tour. Sherwen needed just one look at Armstrong to know all of that was just talk. “We saw it in his eyes,” Sherwen said of a night before the Tour began. “You could see it in his physique. I said that night he’s going to kill them in this year’s Tour.” |
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