Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is enjoying a working vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii as he prepares to return to elite road racing.
The 37-year-old Austin cycling great has been cruising the highways and country roads of Kona and Kohala on his bicycle since arriving Sunday. He's also been documenting his adventures with brief postings on the online social networking service Twitter.
Vernon Sekafetz manages Bike Works Kona, which rents and sells bicycles. He told The Honolulu Advertiser that Kona coast folks are used to having celebrities in their midst and it doesn't faze him that Armstrong is in town.
But, Sekafetz said, "if he walked in here it would be a different story."
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