Damn it Geoff Proctor!, now i'll never be satisfied...
getting paid to race? for cripes sake man! us racing sucks! Those guys get PAID to race over there! Farking brilliant!
Geoff Proctor:
"Even the smaller races are paying something in start money. It's very foreign to the American riders. In America, we pay to race. Riders in Europe could not fathom paying for races."
if that doesn't just bite my balls...
more incentive to race next fall... even if i DO have to pay for it... heck it is fun... and hopefully the coming New England Cyclocross season will be enough motivation to get me on the bike and focusing on getting fast, fast enough maybe not to eat everyone's dirt...
but i'd be delighted to eat marianne stover's dirt all day long - don't tell my wife - but i'm smitten. That photogenic--smile... Kicking ass in cyclocross (enough to win my heart any day - if it hadn't already been spoken for by an elite rower).. i'd better leave it at that - donna wann to make too much of it - oh and i did find a nice image of her that i managed to grab at Nats... #222 blasting along the bottom of the jelly belly bowl... oh and she's from maine - dats almost enough for me right there!
okay - enough of this day dreaming about unobtainuim - i have a better chance at scoring an IF cross-machine than well i'd better not write it down... besides - i wonder if its okay to even mention all that...
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okay well...
alright - in effort to keep this shit from pilin up at once:
heres the later afternoon stuff
just got back from bopping up College street hill - first 3/4 great - last 1/4 sucked...
its short enough that you can maintain some speed but just long enough to make you work for it...
and man o man did i work for it- it is steep enough that you cannot stand normally on the sidewalk or road - crazy goofy angle...
but fun as shit man - and my cadence at the top was so lopsided and i was all bugged out so much that i could feel the fluxuations in the power in my eyeballs... kinda oomph oomph... i gotta work on some circles or something if i'm a gonna make a go at the cyclocross end of it all... and by god i will... granted my commuting miles don't add up to a whole lot (20-30 miles avg/week) but its a power ride - a good hill both ways... and with traffic so a big incentive to keep the speed up around 25 the whole way... no it ain't a big deal but its enough work luggin my tall lanky ass up and down carrying an excessive amount of stuff in my "OLD SCHOOL" timbuk2 messenger bag... i never liked riding with a backpack... gimme the one shoulder thing all day... the camel back is borderline obnoxious and seein as my bladders have been harboring god knows what for years i'm not about to start using them until i get my over extended ass into a shop to pick one up...
speaking of shops... I'm needing to check out the Hub... reccomended by the BCC gang - okay reccomended by one of the gang... still needing to check it out... maybe they've got some of that T-9 gold to fend off the corrosion I'm starting to build up on the nuts and bits...
okay - will wait to post till tomorrow so i don't blast the blog with trifecta action!
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This is tomorrow - or should i say today/this morning... waiting on service guys for the microscope... doing concentration calculations for a fixation run of lichen collected from the 'vaction' trip to the PacNW (home)... well the service guys are here... and i'm just about dried off from the ride in - funny how fog at 20 mph gets ya soaking wet... and 30-32 degrees - not quite cold enough to freeze it.
man i love commuting by bike!
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