Quotes
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true
I'm half crazy just for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
of a bicycle built for two.
~Daniel

Daniel, Daniel, I'm not crazy
Just for the likes of you
There won't be any marriage
if you can't afford a carriage
I'll switched if I'll get hitched
On a bicycle built for two. ~Daisy

Monday A.M. UpdatesRuhan Dennis won the overall USA Pro Challenge championship and his BMC teammate Brent Bookwalter was second.Kristen Armstrong (no relation to another bike racer named Armstrong) won the overall woman's USA Pro Challenge at age 42. Has ambitions to make the Olympic team for next summer's games.

USA Pro Challenge
All week a professional bike race has been taking place in the mountains of Colorado. Stages have taken place from one town to another and over the passes in between. Aspen, Breckenridge, Fort Collins, and Denver, are stops for the stages.

We will update the blog to help you know the results. After the fourth stage, Ruhan Dennis of Austria's Team BMC. is the leader. Dennis has a comfortable 44 second lead going into the final stage which ends in Denver today, Sunday.

What is unusual about this race is that elite female cyclists will be competing on the same course as the men in a Women's USA Pro Challenge. Twelve teams will participate in the inaugural women's pro-bicycle race in the state.

Kristin Armstrong won the first stage, and Tayler Wiles won the second (sprint) stage. Armstrong still has the yellow jersey as the overall leader. The women's final stage will end in Golden, CO today.

Meanwhile, runners completed a 100 mile Trail Run in Leadville, CO, elevation 10,152 feet above sea level.

Dexter Lewis Murder Trial As the trial reached the Aggravating Factors phase of the sentencing portion of the trial, Lewis's mother testified about how Lewis's father was shot in a gang related incident when Lewis was almost four. She remarried into a situation where she was beaten routinely and then dragged into the bedroom and raped. Young Dexter witnessed this. She also beat Dexter.

It was the picture of a dysfunctional upbringing. This family has an extreme level of generational dysfunction Dr. Mark Cunningham, an Austin, Texas expert on childhood trauma said in a hearing not attended by jurors.

Cunningham described how an abused child grows into a violent adult. He described a morality continuum about how when a child is abused his level of morality decreases. Matt Wenig, deputy district attorney objected saying Cunningham was an expert in childhood trauma but not in morality. Judge Madden will rule on that when court resumes on Monday.

The question arises, was Dexter Lewis less mentally ill than James Holmes who killled twelve people in the Aurora Theater and was given a Life in Prison without possible parole sentence? Holmes was spared the death penalty because he is mentally ill. Will Lewis also be spared?

On a happier note

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.

What is the difference between a nicely dressed man on a tricycle and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle? A tire.