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damn hell of a lot of words... no, that isn't 1500 words... another mark... posts

But, staying true to my purpose, I am not going to change the main intent of the brain dump beyond this little - damn that's a lotta words.

So what prompted me this instant?
BKW! Padraig's prose about a product has me just about sold on it. Wait. That's embrocation. GeWilli is mr. anti-embrocation. Well, let me tell ya. I am. But the copy in that entry has me itching to run down to the Hub to check and see if they have any or can get me some. Why? Not sure. I like the barrier of the stuff I've been putting on when I put it on. It doesn't have anything other than lanolin. And yes. If you try and wash it off before it is absorbed by your dead skin cell layer, it is a bitch to get off. But a drive home post race and ya can wash pretty easily. Gotta say though. This RECORD Pregara Forte stuff. Sounds pretty enticing.

Okay - then there's the CONTEST. Maybe this luck I'm having winning iPods will rub off with videos. Yes, in addition to the cool tiny light and svelt 4gig iPod Nano (with the cool little color screen and everything) I seem to have added a black 80gig classic. Damn that is a lot of data, and one heavy ass chunk of hardware (compared to the nano).

So get your cross racing fingers over to Henry's place, enter the contest and order a few DVDs to tied ya over till Cross camps open up.

Another thing i noticed. Since someone's all worked up about specificity and purpose. A nice little interview with a few climbing dudes is up at PEZ.
So here's the summary - go read the whole article for the details (if you want)

Rubber on the Road
Let’s summarize some key points:

• You are what you train for. Burke making the statement “you are what you train for” is very important.
• Different kinds of climbs.
• Power to Weight.
• Climbing Cadence.
• Tempo.

A good read. Nothing ground breaking. Must train body to adapt to higher cadence. Wait. Where have we heard that before? Hmmmm. Sounds familiar.

Yeah but my training reccomendations of Ride, Not Too Much, Mostly Hard. Is too esoteric and vauge. I guess it is good that people can find a coach to tell em what to do. Maybe they need a coach to tell em how to have fun, how to cook, how to live, how do stuff. Roadies are so funny sometimes. (where's my little stick poking ani-gif - paging OoVoO)

alright rain. AWESOME! YES. Shorts and shortsleeves on the way in! RAIN ON THE WAY HOME.

It just doesn't get a whole lot better than this in the spring!

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