Other writing

I know i don't always read the whole internet anymore, but there are three pro's who've said a bit that's worth reading:

JPow

Myerson

Tillford

And something different: a bit on Meeting Ernest

Still need to try and write up Sunday's race. If nothing else to document it for myself.

Am thinking about Ice Weasels, gearing most.  Found Coady's gearing from a few years ago, I think i've got an idea as far as what i'm going to try to run, still not sure about which bike. I've been using the White Blue in all the singlespeed race (all two of them) but Sunday's mid-race swap made me realize how much heavier it is.  That said being heavy it didn't feel slow except when I was running with it. I've only been on the IW course once, two years ago.  Probably bring both bikes get there early and hang out and figure it out.  It is cross y'all, this figuring shit out is most of the fun.  The mental part.

Saw Derdowski yesterday, all slinged up. 6 broken bones. No surgery though.  Collar bone broken, but not detached, just gonna heal up on its own.  Scapula cracked (broken - that's a big f'n bone, takes a lot of force to break them).  They didn't see the 4 broken ribs until they did the CT scan to check the lungs. One up front and three around the back. But overall he's still thinking a lot about next year's CX season. Hoping we can keep him in NECX but he's headed where ever the job offers come from.

I did see a tweeted photo of Myette, looking bruised and puffy, hoping y'all heal up fast. A year of injuries... Dean joined me on one of the long rides, when we met up with Nicky, and this summer he had to deal with a detached retina. The recovery from that makes breaking a bone look luxurious.

We are all on a fragile edge of health. Pushing the limits and sometimes paying a price.  Sometimes it is doing something optional, sometimes it just happens to us.

But we're alive.

Being alive, even when it is shitty and dark and depressing, mentally or environmentally, there is really no alternative.  Carry on.

We all die, and that's it. Done.  We lost Brubeck yesterday, but his music and influence lives on.  We all can only hope to leave something as lasting when it is time to go.

What you do does matter. JPow, Adam, those guys get it. Seriously, take time to read Jeremy's words.  The choices he makes are worth it, worth it for everyone.  And yes, sport is not alone in the corruption and cancer of the egos of men.  Business, no different.  In all things you can go the route of exploiting the situation  to your own singular advantage or you can focus on doing your best, honestly, fairly, with integrity.

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