I’d like to tell you about a great adventure on the day, but the truth of it is that there was the office, and then there was enjoying the evening in the backyard, and then enjoying the Olympics into the night.
Two weeks of Olympics following three weeks of Tour de France, mean a lot of televised sports. And the Vuelta a España starts next week. And then you’re into football season. Honestly, being in a safety-first, approach to going to as few places as possible has done wonders for my sports viewing this year.
I’m getting bored with it.
I did update my 404 page today. I noticed, to my great chagrin, that there was a broken link in my missing page. That’s mortifying. Better that I found it myself, rather than someone pointing it out. The error had been there for an embarrassingly long time. I can only assume that means that people don’t run across the 404 page that often.
But isn’t that exciting? I tested links! I moved tables! I saved and refreshed and changed some language!
That is a full on Thursday!
I wanted to share this amazing track event we discovered this evening. It is, in fact, from a few nights ago. Perhaps we missed it, or maybe NBC, burdened by time zone problems covering the Olympics half a world away, couldn’t figure out where to show what’s being called “the greatest race ever” many hours later. I wanted to share it, but NBC has limited where their programming can be shared, and where their pre-rolls can run. It’s a business model, I guess.
They’re calling this “the greatest race ever.” If you aren’t an expert in track, just enjoy @AtoBoldon and @SanyaRichiRoss’ amazement.
Also know: in modern timing standards, since 1975, the men’s 400m hurdle has never been shattered to this degree.
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) August 6, 2021
As a piece of dumb historical trivia, Warholm’s 400m hurdle *time* would have been a world record in the regular 400 meters in 1950.
It would have allllmost qualified for the semifinals round of the regular 400 meter in the #TokyoOlympics. With his hurdles!
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) August 6, 2021
Here’s a video you can see on my humble little site. I did the math, we’re going faster than the world record hurdlers. We had better gearing, and fewer hurdles.
It was to be a 90-minute ride. Before we’d gotten through the second neighborhood on the route The Yankee had a problem with her aerobars. She got that resolved, and it allowed her to go faster. So, before we’d gotten through the third neighborhood on the route she dropped me.
Just as I caught back up to her, some 15 miles later, we called it just a bit early, right about the time I shot that video. Sometimes, catching back on feels like the greatest race ever.
