On the Outdoor Life Network, my lifeline to the race until I head over there a week from today, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen keep talking about Zabriskie's alleged bashfulness on camera, which doesn't quite square with the Zabriskie I saw at the Tour de Georgia. At a press conference in Rome -- he'd finished second to ex-Postie Floyd Landis at that day's time trial -- he and Floyd had the media doubled over with laughter. I would describe Zabriskie as sneaky-funny; if you're not listening closely, you might miss the joke. Asked by OLN's Frankie Andreu if he'd slept in the yellow jersey, the Utahan explained, with a straight face, that he'd retired, as usual, "in the buff." Asked by Andreu after the race to talk about his first day in what Liggett calls, "the golden fleece," Zabriskie used less elevated language:

"It's unbelievable how many people are on the roads. I could only find one place to go the bathroom the whole day. And I took it."

DaveZ stuff left out of yesterday's blog: When he is not training in Girona, Spain -- where he shares an apartment with Landis -- he lives in Salt Lake City, where he was hit by an SUV while on a training ride in 2003, which left him with a broken hip and wrist. (Hey all you non-cycling motorists: Start seeing bicycles!) A second crash last spring left him with a broken left leg, from which he recovered, remar