Today, ~40 miles, on zmook's now-yearly Paul Revere's ride. A surprisingly uncrowded bike path in the morning (I say "surprisingly" because spring has finally found us, and it was 70 and sunny); off at Lexington Center to take that lovely chunk of Mass Ave outbound, peel off to Concord. Bridge, reenactors, flooding (that is one high river). Back to ( Read more... )

Got the bike out of the garage today, since it is beautiful out ( Read more... )

Tested out a bike route from the new house (moving next week) to work today. I'm moving farther away, so I was concerned, but it was awesome! ~7 miles, 50 minutes. Compare to right now which is ~6 miles, best case 35 minutes. Not bad :). I can definitely get it down to 45 minutes once I'm more familiar with the route (and figure out a better ( Read more... )

Why Floyd is the man, #190428091: he also is really funny.

As you might gather from this article, his roommate in Spain, Dave Zabriskie, is a weirdo, too.

Gosh: Floyd Landis is more hardcore than you.

I've just gone from "I guess Floyd is my man this year" to raving looney Floydmania. (Thanks to chrysaphi for the link.)

Today, nonnihil and I hit the path with sweetmmeblue, all the way out and back. I was a bit concerned because I had no idea how it would turn out; was I right in my hypothesis yesterday that I can ride a long time on the flats and it's only the slopes that bother me? would I have legs left after yesterday? would I have any core endurance ( Read more... )

Gosh I'm tired.

Was out riding today with zmook et alia, one of our standard loops through familiar roads down to Dover and back, a 60 mile route. Being an evil bastard he stuck Arlington's water tower hill near the beginning of it ( Read more... )

I don't even know what to say about Le Tour, other than incoherent and aghast shrieking. I don't know whom to cheer for any more (Landis? Leipheimer? this year's Voeckler/Rasmussen/darling?). I feel bad for Vino (never did anything wrong, betrayed by his team) and Cancellara (the shocking tenth man on CSC, by rights in the Tour when they're one ( Read more... )

Yeeeargh! CSC left Fabian Cancellara off its Tour roster! Because this year's route has no team time trial!

I'm sure that, like, two of you can appreciate the horror of this situation. But trust me, it's awful! If only Crazy Jane were still writing her tour blog, because she would empathize. How to say...this guy could be winning time trials ( Read more... )

Rawwwwwr ( Read more... )