So I poked around on the Tour of California website finally last night, after the television coverage of the prologue was over, and that whole Race Tracker feature looked really cool. “If it looks this spiffy when there’s nothing happening,” I thought, “I can only imagine what it’ll be like when the riders are actually, um, riding!” I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up.

The Tour’s website was down yesterday afternoon, before the race coverage came on, and I wondered why. Well, I clicked over there again five minutes ago to check out the coverage in real time, and once again it’s down. Seriously, people, if you’re going to go to the trouble of telling people all about this cool feature, it’d better not get overloaded when people actually want to use it.

Consequently, I’m back to clicking the “Refresh” button on Cycling News’ live reporting and cursing the Tour of California’s website. Is anyone else having this problem?

UPDATE: It seems to be working now… I hope they’ve worked out the bugs and it’s not just a fluke…

UPDATE #2: After watching the map move around with nothing on it for the last hour, I’ve given up on the ToCA’s Race Tracker. You can actually see the CSC OmniLocation thingies working at CSC’s website. Today’s stage is here.