Prologue

There are times in life when you get the lightest taste of something, and you know it's important. You see a person and you know your fates are intertwined. You see a place from afar and you know that someday you'll be there.

This particular story begins nearly six years ago. In January of 2008, my employer sent a handful of us to the ( Read more... )

Andrei Kivilev died today. You probably never heard of him; he was an impressive fourth in the 2001 Tour de France, an attacking climber and a surprise challenger to Lance Armstrong during the three-week stage race. He was riding this year’s Paris-Nice race and apparently got tangled with another cyclist and endo’ed. Fractured skull, coma, death.

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