I wasn’t quite ready to say that I’ve done my last race for the season. But was I willing to get all my gear together, then get up at 5 AM then drive 3-plus hours in order for that to be so?
That’s always the test for me: do I feel motivated enough to go [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘travel’
August 23, 2009
Famous in Michigan
July 28, 2009
Not-so-deep post-Superweek thoughts
After the last few weeks my jerseys are beginning to resemble pin cushions.
9 races in 15 days (Tour of the Valley + Westlake + Superweek) weakens your immune system, allowing you to catch the dreaded summer cold and waste the race fitness you just built.
A VW Passat wagon can fit a bike, 4 wheels, work [...]
July 27, 2009
Not the same old …
When you find yourself staring at the same jerseys, same bikes, same wheels week after week it can get a little boring. It’s often the same guys in the breakaways, same guys sprinting at the end.
One of the reasons I like going to Superweek is to race against different guys. And not just [...]
June 26, 2009
You say Ver-sales
Before leaving for the Ohio time trial championship in Versailles, my son informed me of the correct way to pronounce where I would be going.
“It’s Ver-sales”, he said. “They don’t like it when you say it like the French city.” As a college student at a small Ohio liberal arts school, he now apparently [...]
May 31, 2009
Nobody walks in Florida
Go for a walk in Florida and you risk being stopped by the police. That was the experience of Viktor, my friend and colleague from Germany.
We were at a work conference in Florida back in February. The conference was about 40 miles north of Orlando, in a pleasant area covered with orange groves and lakes. [...]
July 9, 2008
Even the Panhandlers are Polite
Outside Magazine tells me I’ve just been to one of the “The 20 Best Towns in America”.
Returning home from Louisville after Masters Nationals, I found the latest Outside magazine waiting in the mail stack. Louisville is on their “top 20 towns in America” list. So … was it?
First night there, eating dinner and seeing all [...]
June 23, 2008
Cow town
During my college days at Denison I had to endure the jokes about Ohio from the prep school kids from “back east”. Columbus in particular, being nearby, had a reputation as a “cow town”. Never mind that those of us from Cleveland called it that too.
Driving to Columbus for the state time trial [...]
