An excerpt from a recent e-mail I wrote, intentionally pretentious but completely serious:
“A sophisticated analysis might suggest that Rage used Sony, the very symbol of the corporate, political, economic machine they were raging against, to get the anti-machine message out to more people. In this sense, it’s a guerilla tactic; you steal weapons from the [...]

Yeah, that’s me back there, first guy on the Colavita train, with one lap to go at Austin. It would be sweet if instead of watching the sprint and getting 5-10 all the time, I actually got something done. I should be psyched about top 10, but all I can really think about is all [...]

We’re in Austin this week:
http://www.attcrit.com/
We checked out Lance’s bike shop today. Pretty neat.
I should have more to say. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve been to Austin, and I spent the winter training here in 1998. It’s one of my favorite places. But sometimes bike racing is just airplane/host housing/bike race/host housing/airplane. It kinds [...]

If you haven’t seen it already:
http://velonews.com/article/77753/time-s-eric-barlevav-wins-the-35th-annual-harlem-classic-in
My favorite part of those photos is me getting ready to put my hands up after leading Eric out when I realized he was going to win, and then having to put them back down to avoid not running him over.

The original plan was for Andy, Jon, Stoop, and Jackie [...]

I love these guys:
The A-Train Goes Old School
They say that converts make the biggest zealots. For a couple of guys who just discovered ‘cross, you will not find more passionate fans of the sport.
The fact that they like me makes me wonder what’s wrong with them.

If you’re looking for a place to live in Boston, we have a room open at the Cycle-Smart Center For World Domination:
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/roo/717440708.html

I’m looking to add 2 new clients to the 3 that I’m currently working with, at Level 1 or 2.
As the president of Cycle-Smart, I have to be selective and limit the number of clients I work with. Much of my time is spent training, racing, traveling, and managing the business, so my coaching clients [...]

I might be talking about Philly with that line, but I had bigger problems today.
My MacBook battery seems to be on its last legs. I ran the battery all the way down and back up again to calibrate it, but there was no joy. Essentially my computer thinks there’s no battery left when it’s still [...]

It’s 95 degrees in Philly today. It’s going to be 97 tomorrow - record high temperatures. Philly’s hard enough, and I’m not exactly built for effective heat dissipation. I don’t have the best surface area:total body mass ratio, if you know what I mean. I predict a slow, slow race, possibly 6:30, and half as [...]

This picture was actually from right after CSC, but that counts as Philly week these days.
More later when I have time and a good connection.