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{ Monthly Archives } July 2006

My weird bike ride and bad news for Landis

Last night I was riding east on 38th street on my way to south Minneapolis from uptown. While I was waiting for the light to change at the corner of Bloomington — I [...]

Every little thing matters

Floyd Landis left nothing to chance in the final ITT stage of the Tour this year. The final 59 second margin removed the opportunity of there being a real race on the last [...]

VeloNews Sacked! — by me at least

I’m sure that VeloNews had great coverage of this years Tour de France, but I haven’t seen any of it. You see, the majority of their content was video which was [...]

I’m convinced that we are watching history…

Oh BOY! Here we are; uncharted waters. I’ve avoided writing about the tour until today, but I simply can’t restrain myself anymore. This is history! (and it has nothing to do [...]

A Demonstration of Scarcity

The next time that you go the local gas station, take a look at the prices and think about that cost as a single gallon or liter. As you are absorbing the real money cost figure, [...]

Rookie’s Triathlon, part two

This is part two of the results from the Elysian Rookie’s Triathlon. The swim leg is covered by part one.
Transition one
It took longer moving at T1 then I would have liked. I had problems pulling the jersey [...]

Rookie’s Triathlon Results, part one

Well, I survived.. Some points of emphasis:

Lake water isn’t good to drink. Try to avoid it, M’kay.
The name of the event was The Elysian Rookie’s Triathlon. Note that apostrophe in there, it’s possessive — like, say, a bar [...]

Vague signs of life

I have a sort of plan through which I believe that I can actual live to see Saturday night. It came to me today as I was attempting to extend my [...]

Two more days..

Two days are all that’s left to establish a swim stroke which I can sustain for 600M. I’ve declared Friday to be a rest and travel day and the race is [...]

An unhappy coincidence? CM’ers arrested.

On Friday night I was on my way to the going away party of a friend when I accidentally came across the Critical Mass ride. I was riding into the uptown area and the Mass was [...]

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