Gov. Ted Strickland stopped at cyclist Lance Armstrong's house in Texas last week in between fund-raising events in Austin on Thursday and Dallas on Friday.

According to the Ohio Democratic Party, speaking for Strickland, the governor's meeting with Armstrong was not campaign-related. Rather, it was to discuss Pelotonia, the annual bike tour to benefit cancer research at Ohio State University's Arthur G. James Cancer Research Hospital, as well as the cancer research being done at the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital.

Armstrong, a cancer survivor, posted a picture of the meeting on his Twitter account at twitpic.com/mmstt.

Strickland was on another in a series of what are called "party-building" trips out of state to raise money for his re-election bid next year and for the party.

The trip marked the second straight week the governor was out of Ohio on a Thursday and a Friday for a party-building trip.

He was in Los Angeles on Oct. 15-16, according to the party.

mniquette@dispatch.com