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The only thing you need for joy is sweat
There was plenty to learn when I took up cycling just under two decades ago. While I’d already spent three decades learning how to run and ran thousands of miles over the years, cycling was completely different. I needed to … Continue reading
Posted in cycling, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons
Tagged cycling, road cycling, sweat, sweating, training, triathlete, triathlon
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Road Test on the aero bike
With an Olympic Triathlon planned for this Sunday, I set out on a “road test” in aero this morning to practice position and ride strategies. As you’ll see below, even Strava recognized this ride was a bit quicker than my … Continue reading
Posted in competition, cycling, cycling the midwest, tri-bikes, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons
Tagged aero position, aero road bike, cycling, road cycling, triathlete, triathlon
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Road bike happiness
Last night I led my daughter’s boyfriend Kyle on his first road bike venture. He’d grown up as a proficient and daring BMX racer, so the whole road bike thing wasn’t as threatening to him as it might be to … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, newbie, road bike, road cycling, Waterford
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Barely in control of the stupid beast
It used to be that the greatest threat to human beings were large animals. Supposedly we’ve evolved in some way, conquering both nature as a wild place and our own nature as a result. But it isn’t quite true. In … Continue reading
Making sense of things down the road
By Christopher Cudworth Roads are very symbolic objects. We use terms such as “somewhere down the road” and “on the road to success” because roads take us places we want to go. We tend to take our roads so much … Continue reading
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Tagged beneficiaries of success, cycling, cyclists, down the road, echo of history, making sense of things, on the road to success, Oregon Trail, road cycling, Road Runner, road running, road surface, runners, running, somewhere down the road, tarsnake, tarsnakes
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Why we should forgive rather than forget Lance Armstrong
Retired professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton’s book The Secret Race documents the doper’s decade of the 2000s when bike racers made a common practice of taking performance enhancing drugs and doing blood transfusion to increase hematocrit counts and raise oxygen carrying … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Cantador, Alexander Vinokourov, blood doping, Christian Vande Velde, competition, criminal charges, cycling, cyclists, Floyd Landis, French media, George Hincapie, getting popped, health, hematocrit, hematocrit level, Lance Armstrong, Lance Armstrong comeback, Livestrong, Livestrong Foundation, Nike, peloton, porn, porn star, porn stars, road biking, road cycling, steroids, The Secret Race, Tour de France, Tour titles, Tyler Hamilton, USADA, Velo News
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For those who run and ride, the right car can be a Godsend
By Christopher Cudworth Anyone who runs and rides knows it is important to have the right support vehicle to enjoy your activities. A good car has to be reliable, get decent gas mileage, hold a roof rack and have storage … Continue reading
I yam what I yam. Hewwhhgh. A runnersk and a cyclisk. Hek hek hek.
By Christopher Cudworth “Hewwwgggh. Hi theresk, mateys. Gladsk to sees yah’sk.” Heck eck eckeck. Ahhh, Popeye. You could hardly understand a word he said, but that was the point, wasn’t it? Popeye was a man of action. Once he got … Continue reading
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