Mar
30
Shout out to CTodd
March 30, 2007 | 2 Comments
I met one of the Boston-area cycling bloggers last night. Mr. CTodd. He and I aren’t linked, but the folks to whom I am linked (GeWilli and Kerry Litka) do connect with him. (Then there’s Bruce, who’s blog I can’t actually seem to find right now.) Yes indeedy. Always interesting to meet real people in [...]
Mar
30
Battenkill
March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment
I am a moron. M-O-R-O-N. I signed up to do a race in New York State called the Battenkill-Roubaix on April 14th. It’s named after Paris-Roubaix, a spring classic bike race in France which is held over a variety of sections of extremely tough cobbled farm roads built in the early last century. It’s a [...]
Mar
26
More Redlands racing
March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It becomes a blur. Saturday morning the remaining Wachovia/IBC girls were herded into exciting downtown Redlands for the criterium. No one seemed very happy. I had company for the day in the form of one of our riders, who had been time-cut the day before. Only two riders had to be eliminated by arriving outside [...]
Mar
24
Redlands!
March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I arrived out in SoCal to find that my eco-friendly rental car wasn’t available, so they offered me an SUV. No way. Then they proffered a Prius. Yes! It took three crusty old men to figure out how to start the thing, since it apparently has a totally new way to be started that no [...]
Mar
21
Contador – Why I like him
March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Halfway through my second Budweiser (an underrated American lager), I suddenly feel like talking about Alberto Contador, winner of last week’s Paris-Nice stage race, with two stage wins, the second notably on the final day when he broke away from the remainder of the field to win the stage (and take back valuable time) and [...]
Mar
20
Redlands bound!
March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments
Tomorrow I’m heading out to Southern California to help out my buddies who are racing in the Redlands Classic stage race. I will be the feeder and caretaker and errand-runner for a couple of chicks on Team Wachovia / IBC. So far I gather they have been working hard to stay with the pack in [...]
Mar
19
Gear!
March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
My friend Sally always makes me laugh when she refers to all her belongings as “gear.” She doesn’t have clothes and shoes, or bike equipment and climbing stuff, or surfboards and skis – nope, it’s all “gear.” She’s just that sporty.
Now even I have more gear! I am now the proud owner of equipment for [...]
Mar
18
The New Pornographers and University of Phoenix?
March 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Yes, I’ve already endured those cute songs by the Postal Service as background music for some unusually upbeat and up-to-date ads for …. the U.S. Postal Service.
But I was a bit surprised to hear the stellar late chorus from the New Pornographer’s “The Bleeding Heart Show” as the soundtrack for the University of Phoenix’s online [...]
Mar
17
More damn snow
March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I think that writing about the weather is about as exciting as reading about other people’s training plans. (No offense meant to any enthusiastic cyclists out there, talking about training goals steps and goals on a blog is way better than slowly driving friends or spouses to murder.) But nevertheless I must protest – 6-plus [...]
Mar
11
New England Spring
March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Ugh.
After this many months of sticks against the sky (ie, leafless trees against a gray backdrop), I’m just bored. Bored with waiting for warmer weather. Bored with putting on 19 layers of clothes to go ride my bike. Bored of the long evenings. Bored, in fact, with riding my bike. Even bored with myself.
Daylight savings, [...]
