So Lance Armstrong is back in the professional peloton, kinda… Armstrong recently came out of retirement and has re-started his professional cycling career in an effort to spread cancer awareness around the world. He has participated in in four major races since his come back. The first two races he participated in were the Tour Down Under, a ProTour stage race hosted in Australia and the Tour of California. Armstrong placed 29th in the Tour Down Under, his first since coming out retirement from 2005. The next race on Lance’s schedule was the Tour of California, which due to his participation had record attendance with over a million people lining the roads to catch a glimpse of the 7 time Tour winner. Lance placed 7th overall in the race and helped his team-mate Levi Leipheimer win the overall for the second year in a row. The next race Armstrong participated in was Milan-Sanremo a 300 kilometer (over 180 miles!) bicycle race in the northern part of Italy. Armstrong suffered with the pace of the race at his first major European race and was dropped on the major climb of the day and finished with the second group over 8 minutes back! The last time Lance had ridden ‘Sanremo was in 2002 when he placed 44th. The last race Armstrong has taken part in was the first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, a race in which he was invited to ride by his team-mate and Tour de France winner Alberto Contador. Towards the end of the first stage there was a crash involving over 30 riders, Armstrong went down hard landing on his head and his shoulder. The end result was Lance being transported out by ambulance, he would later be diagnosed with a broken collar bone. Lance will be out of competition for 4 to 6 weeks while his injury heals. The next races he will contest include the Tour of Italy and the Tour de France. The injury is the first of a kind for Armstrong but one of the most common injuries for cyclists.