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Governor Lance Armstrong?

Lance Armstrong, a liberal-Schwarzenegger Republican, recently gave an interview in Outside Magazine about life after the Tour de France:

You're going to be changing professions at some point.

I'll obviously stay involved with the team for the remainder of its existence. Many of the sponsors, I have long-term deals with—like Trek and 24-Hour Fitness and Nike and Discovery.

There's just a whole bunch of other stuff I want to do. I want to go ride my motorcycle on my ranch. I want to go kayak the Pedernales down to friggin' Lake Travis and call somebody and say, "Uh, can you come pick me up?" I've got a lot of stuff, goofy things like that. I want to build a rock wall out here. Just weird things. Right now, I can't go build a rock wall, because I'd get arm muscles that I can't use. It sounds funny, but it's true—everything you do.

Maybe I'll run for governor.

Joke or serious?

There's no follow-up. I'll leave it at that. Not in '06, though. I drove Sheryl by the governor's mansion last night on the way home from dinner. It's a nice mansion. Nice place, nice house—I hate the word mansion, but it's a nice house.

Location, location, location.

Well, it's next to work, next to the capitol.

Here are my thoughts on that:

Awesome!