Category Archive for 'Cyclists'

The Purposeful Lance Armstrong

Andrea’s blog inspired quite a lengthy comment from me. I even told her that I should be posting it on my blog since I’m experiencing a little writer’s block. I wasn’t really going to do it, but changed my mind shortly after clicking the submit button.
Andrea wrote about Lance Armstrong’s comeback and referred [...]

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Anticipated Loss

Blogging has its own little community. A person starts a blog and shares it with his or her friends. Then, that person checks out the links on his or her friends’ blogs and finds that he or she is suddenly checking out several blogs. This happened to me.
One day, while reading Ali’s [...]

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We travelled to “Tom’s house” for the fourth race in our UP Cyclocross Series. It was a beautiful, sunny day complete with bikes, brew, and burgers and brats on the grill. Yes, cross is done with style in our neck of the woods.
I had a great race. I also had a bit of [...]

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The battle between cyclists and drivers continues, and it even worsens in some areas where driving is the predominant mode of transportation, as in Southeast Michigan. With high fuel prices and a dragging economy, the bicycle has become a popular mode of transportation. Unfortunately, many roads were not built with the cyclist in [...]

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Fat Cyclist Interview

I am a Fat Cyclist fan. I discovered the Fat Cyclist through Ali’s blog.
Fatty’s Fat Cyclist Fake News Service recently published a story about Lance Armstrong’s return to pro cycling. What I found particularly noteworthy about this blog post is one of the notes at the bottom citing Fatty’s interview in the September [...]

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One of the interesting things about the Internet is the vast network of people out there. I’ve met a lot of those people through the MMBA. Unfortunately, I’ve met most of those people during races and related social events when crowd hopping is a necessity.
For example, I was deliriously happy at [...]

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Inner Turmoil

I wanted to return to Copper Harbor, today, for several reasons:
* Many of my friends were there;
* It is the place to ride;
* A music festival raising money for the new stage was the event of the weekend;
* It is the last weekend our AmeriCorps group was staying, and I wanted to say goodbye.
I headed [...]

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