the brilliant MegA puts out a nice cross vid and a whole encyclopedia of entries.
reading through the Sucka Brook banter i'm thinkin: "sweet, now i can get my ass handed to me in a 4th dissypline(sic)"
(1st: RR, 2nd: TT, 3rd: Crit, 4th: Cross)
The whole 'spinach' deal is crazy. I feel for the producer. That's gotta really feel like shoving a spruce tree up your ass if you are counting the beans.
Oh and Horizon. I didn't know about the boycot until i pulled up this link searching for info on why my mother told me. That PCC (a wholefoods like co-op that's been around longer than Wholefoods... see, seattle didn't just start the Coffee trend, they started the "natural" grocery store chain too) dropped Horizon because they investigated and determined the cows were not seeing enough sun or getting enough grass for their standards. So buh buy Horizon.
Which i just learned is owned by Dean Foods. No shit? Wow. Anyway. My only hope is that Horizon isn't the producer that is making the 365 Organic branded dairy products.
read all about it with this google search
one of the better articles comes from the Seattle Weekly, and scary bit from there is Walfart's diving headfirst (more like cannon ball) into the organics market. WE're Fucked, or should i say the organic dairy industry is, unless these standards are tightened down.
finally the direct link for one of the PCC statements.
PCC is cool. Since 1953... But then what do ya expect from a place like Seattle.
And Patty O'G has given the thumbs up to posting some cross nuggets from the book.
Gonna try and make that a regular thing. Maybe see if i can get em all scanned and then use them to set the ton for how i did in the races... Oh and the commentary about the Great Dane is a do not miss, he's got a bit about the shitty bacteria... haha...shitty bacteria...
nevermind, must be lunch time (after actually) and the blood sugar is dropping...
And seems that the U got their act together and sent out the PO... which is nice... cause if they had blown $47 grand by being late... that would have been a sucky thing to have hangin over the scope.
Cross tips... i was unable to take in the 'local' camps, and will have to make due with practicing with Shannon's kinda tips in mind. Hell he is the '05 Men's 35-39 National Champ. Guys like him showed up at Bob Beal this weekend. Make me out for laughing stock cannon fodder.
3. What's a good training plan?
Well, there's a few schools of thought. You can do like Tonkin does and ride your bike as much as humanly possible. I'm talking every waking hour when you're not at work. This works well if you work 60 hrs/week like he does, but plan on giving up a social life. It does help if you eat butter.
I try to ride less, but skip the butter. My goal is to ride as little as possible but still be able to win races. You'll have to experiment a little, because that amount of riding varies from person to person. I've pretty much settled in on commuting to and from work.
mmm butter... well me not so much but i don't skimp on the meat stuff... me no vegan eh?! one (one of my broz) in the family is enough. But the commuting to and from work.
I would like to try and get the cross bike suited up for commuter duty and well that means the three sets of wheels shared by the Croll, Klien and P-mount would all become property of the 'Croll' The Rolf VectorPro's get designated as 'race' wheels. Yes they are clincher... i'm gonna have to suck it up riding them cause there ain't NO budget for a set of boobulars, the current cross wheels on the croll potentially get set up for road training or second cross wheels. and the beat to shit P-mount wheels get left doing commuter duty. Now... to see if i can make the Trailer work with the cross bike with the different bracket (can't use the drop out hook up with the Ritchey dropouts on the croll...
That was the other 'DOH' factor this weekend. I hadn't been on the Klein since Sunday. And the geometry IS different between the Pmount and the Klein and while the seat position and all that is close, the disparity between the size of the bike, the bottom brackets and the rest of the crap... makes me look lazy for not having it exactly the same. Oh well. Cross is coming up soon. Right?
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