Thursday, April 17, 2014

Race Report to Come; Just Not My Own.

People of the Internet! I'm resurrecting the blog, possibly temporarily, possibly not. We'll see how it goes. I just got back from a mind-exploding trip to the spring cobbled classics of cycling, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Each race is an incredible spectacle and a testament to human toughness, grit, and the ability to develop buttocks of titanium through hard training. But one of the things that inspired me most about the trip was the people I met who love cycling and endurance events and, in some cases, push through a lot of inconvenience and pain to take part in them. I will write more on this because it's tying in with various things I've been thinking about. Meanwhle here's a picture of cycling's most charismatic rider (IMHO), Fabian Cancellara, three-time Flanders winner. Followed by Sep Vanmarcke, Spartacus is chasing down a breakaway on the way to this year's victory.  
image of Fabian Cancellara on the Oude Kwaremont, Tour of Flanders 2014

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    1. OK, I'll try! Tell all your friends to encourage me.... ;-)

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  2. Glad to see new posts from ya! & this is especially timely as I prepare to do "as much as I can" of the MS150 ride next weekend w/my boy... (Feeling woefully undertrained but what else is new?)

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  3. Good to see you blogging again Jayne. Since our sites are very similar (in both name and theme) it helps to have more voices for sure. On another subject, I got an interesting contact from a company yesterday that found my site but thought it was you ... I can share that info offline if you contact me. I am at FatSlowTriathlete@gmail.com. Again ... good to see you back!!

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