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OK well I have finally started getting up trip stories. I am back in Ottawa for another few weeks- walking dogs. Somehow I seem perpetually jet-lagged - so maybe it’s that or maybe just from spending 3-6h a day stopping and romping through the area swamps, bogs, bushes, and trails with only K9’s for company.

Today I got called in to walk Ruben the Wiener Dog (here after simply referred to as ‘my wiener’) and thought the whole episode hilarious.

My wiener is around 13 inches long, weighs 7 lbs, and is covered in soft brown fur.

My wiener is so low to the ground that when I walk through the bushes I have to be careful not to stop on him.

(this is great fun, no?)

My wiener has great endurance. Today my wiener exercised for 90 minutes, dashing through bushes, basking on bald rocks..

(too far? ok one more and I’m done)

Sadly, one of the other dogs peed on my wiener, so I took my wiener to a pond and my wiener went for a swim.

the end.

The tour is dead, dead, dead. So the new ‘leader’ didn’t get to start last year, drug investigation (operation puerto).  Cadel, who is poised to take the lead hasn’t gotten any better since he was 8th 2 years ago, everyone in front of him has been thrown out of the sport. This doesn’t make him clean, or a Saviour, he just has a doctor who hasn’t been caught … yet. I don’t think anyone really finds this news surprising, but really sad. I have sat in my cycling shorts the last 3h, and can’t be bothered to go ride.

I guess the upside is that maybe in 10 years (how long has it been since Kimmages book? How long has it been since things were ‘cleaned up’ from the ‘festina affiar’?) things will start to change.