Well, it wasn’t terrible. I spent the morning rebuilding my road bike in the hotel room, and the stress and hassle and discomfort of crashing on Sunday and everything that followed was definitely still with me. I felt good riding easy, but painfully blocked going hard, so I just tried to relax and have a [...]

A photo essay.

The hardest part about Vegas now will likely be getting to and sitting on the plane. I’ve decided to only bring one ‘cross bike to make things easier. If you flat or crash in ‘Cross Vegas, as I learned last year, your race is over anyway.

Do. Not. Want. To. Go!

My weekend went like this:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=/photos/2008/sep08/nittany_lion08/080920-Nittany-396
And then like this:

Thanks for the photo to whomever it was I stole it from on Flickr.
2 crashes in 2 days in 2 races I had the potential and opportunity to win. My road bike is totaled, and I’m doing similarly poorly. The photo captions on Cyclingnews for Saturday make it [...]

This has always been one of my favorite magazines. I let my subscription lapse, but obviously I need to renew. You should, too. Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.

No sooner do I start the beer log then I decide to cut my beer consumption down to 1 beer per week. Seriously. It’s cyclo-cross season, I’ve trained really hard, I have some big goals, and it’s just dumb to weigh 5 more pounds than I need to because I’m drinking a beer every night. [...]

You ONLY step through if:
1. You’ve clipped out of the left pedal already and are riding on the arch of your foot.
2. It’s a fast approach to the barrier so you have sufficient time to set up and coast.
The default dismount is to clip out of the left first, and just step off around the [...]

Molly Cameron is crushing it, and here’s what it looks like:

That’s 6 months of base, 1 month of intensity, owning a bike shop, opening a fitting studio, and maintaining a relationship. And the first race of the season looks like this:
http://app.obra.org/results/event/13073
Looking at that chart, and then those results, makes me like my job.

I think my life is finally slow enough, for the first time in about 6 weeks, that I might be able to do a real blog entry. It’s really too bad; so many notable things have happened since the start of August that would have merited entire entries unto themselves. I’m going to try to [...]

Seriously, more later, but in the meantime:
Last night:
Ommegeddon
Tonight:
Dogfish Head Black and Blue
I noticed one of the rider signed up for ‘cross camp this weekend rides for the Ommegang sponsored club in New York. Please God, let him bring beer.