Lance

A friend of mine told me about it over a couple of drinks, a couple days ago, and I refused to believe it. And then I told to another friend about it tonight, over a couple more drinks, and he didn't believe it either.

So I was just a bit surprised to find the printed story in a newspaper article I found on the subway ride home.

On Friday, in a 47 KM tim trial on the twelfth stage of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong lost thirteen pounds in under an hour.

Thirteen pounds. He ran out of water two-thirds of the way through the course and sweated out almost ten percent of his body weight in under sixty minutes. And he came in second. And I don't even need to mention that this is a guy who was near-dead from cancer a couple years ago.

Lance Armstrong has officially reached superhuman status.

Lance, holding on to his lead over fellow superhuman Tyler Hamilton, who managed to win today's trial with a collarbone broken in two places, summed it up pretty well:

"I'm not overly satisfied with my performance," said Armstrong, "but it could have been worse."