Apparently I scared a few of you with my melodramatic blog entry last week. It’s true; it was a rough, long week. I have been so, so tired after getting back from Europe and then racing out to Northampton for our double race weekend. I rested all week the week that followed, and tried to [...]

Some days you can only listen to Rocky to feel better.
One More Work Song Blues - Rocky Votolato
here it comes again
i’m watching myself through everybody else’s eyes
same old shit again
if this is my heart, why’s it still beating?
’cause i’m dead inside
the root of all evil is grounding me
if i were really smart, i’d just get [...]

Just because Lance is showing up at jitbag local Texas bike races because he’s not eligible to race in sanctioned events until after January, does not make those jitbag races “National Events.”
http://www.cyclingnews.com/mtb.php?id=mtb/2008/nov08/rockyhill08
It’s cool if you want to cover Lance, but don’t cover those races like they matter beyond being local events. They don’t. Lance showing [...]

But it’s always nice to get a little:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=news/2008/nov08/nov05crossnews

“Exit polls revealed dramatic demographic gaps in the gay-marriage vote. While about six in 10 voters under 30 opposed the ban, about the same proportion of those 65 and older supported it. There were sharp racial discrepancies as well. Even as black voters overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama — a gay-rights supporter — in the presidential [...]

http://embrocation.blogspot.com/2008/11/totally-jazzy.html
I promised myself I wouldn’t get up there. It only took 1/2 a beer to talk me into it.

So tired. So very, very tired. But I’m also so excited. I woke up at 7 am and nearly skipped down to my voting place. I have been waiting for today for a long, long time. I have never been so excited to vote, never believed so much in what’s possible.
“For the first time in [...]

This is kind of embarrassing:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=cross/2008/oct08/podboreny08
Again, I didn’t get lapped 4 times, I got lapped with 4 laps to go. There has to be a better way to score lapped riders that reflects when they got lapped. I have to work on that.
It would also be great if you could put little self-made notes that they [...]

As I just wrote to a few friends, my trip to Europe ended to with me careening into a tree in a really muddy, steep, switchback descent in some God-forsaken place in the middle of nowhere, Czech Republic.
The broken knuckle will heal ok, but I snapped my left hand Red shifter clear in half. And [...]

I was so excited about Woerden, I couldn’t wait to blog about it. Instead, I spent the next morning packing up all my stuff at Sten’s place in Lille, and then driving with my old Nerac teammate Nic Smutny 11 hours from Belgium to his home in the Czech Republic.
We’re in a town called Znojmo, [...]