750 miles on a bike - seriously hardcore
Saturday 14th Feb is not just Valentine's Day, it also sees the start of the 2009 Amgen Tour of California. The largest cycling event in America, the is a Tour de France-style cycling road race that challenges the world’s top professional cycling teams to compete along a demanding, recently expanded, 750-mile course from Sacramento to Escondido from February 14-22, 2009.
Race fans can follow the tour, and the progress of their favorite riders and teams, with the race trackers built on using Flex, AIR, Flash Player, Flash video and LiveCycle technologies.
You can read the press release (and see some video) here.
You can follow the race here.
An you can see what Duane Nickul has to say about it here.