Wow, it was a great feeling coming back from the Wiss ride today and seeing that KC had such a rocking ride in Belgium! Hard to believe she almost did to the world what she did to the US National championships a few years back today! I assume she didn't get the starting position she deserved since her UCI points are quite few compared with all of the World Cup racers, so even more props to KC knowing she had to get through the fodder on the way to Silver!
What an awesome ride by Page too! To come back from such an injury and not only be competitive, but also be in a strong position to get the gold show's how hard this dude works and also how hard he's worked to gain the respect of the other cross racers in the World.
Velonews has some of the most rocking pictures of the days races:
http://www.velonews.com/race/cyc/articles/11548.0.html
Ride on,
-BC
Sunday, January 28, 2007
New Year, New team
Just last week I decided to move to a team which has all my training buddies on it. It was a hard decision as all the people on the Guys Racing team have been awesome, but when it came down to it, I didn't ride much with them as they all seemed to live far away from Center City Philly and I would only catch up with them at most every few weeks or so.
The dudes who I do 90% of my group riding all live within 2 miles of Center City and hence a few months ago they started talking about leaving their respective teams and creating a new team based in Center City and with that they created a team rightfully named, in French, the "The City's Team": http://www.lequipedeville.org/.
It should be another fun year getting to know all the new people my fellow riding buddies have asked to join the team. What's going to make the team unique is that it's more of a club than a "racing team" as we are going to participate in a good majority of the Philly benefit rides during the summer months. Pretty much every person on the team was at one point a hardcore racer, some still are, but mainly it's people who love to ride hard, train hard, and compete, but who don't necessarily want to race every weekend.
The dudes who I do 90% of my group riding all live within 2 miles of Center City and hence a few months ago they started talking about leaving their respective teams and creating a new team based in Center City and with that they created a team rightfully named, in French, the "The City's Team": http://www.lequipedeville.org/.
It should be another fun year getting to know all the new people my fellow riding buddies have asked to join the team. What's going to make the team unique is that it's more of a club than a "racing team" as we are going to participate in a good majority of the Philly benefit rides during the summer months. Pretty much every person on the team was at one point a hardcore racer, some still are, but mainly it's people who love to ride hard, train hard, and compete, but who don't necessarily want to race every weekend.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Go ride your bike!
Rode the Wiss with the Sunday Posse today. Trails were hard and fast (just like how your mom like's it Windows!) today and we rode incredibly quick and smooth. Too quick actually, b/c the dudes I ride with had frozen hands b/c they hadn't planned on how much faster things would be. There was just a few icy sections which added a wee bit of suspense. Total ride time was 4 hours, which was crazy, as it sure didn't feel that long. It really amazes how time flies while mtb'ing. It must be that since your focus is typically not more than a few hundred feet ahead, that you just do hundreds of little bits of distance, and you never actually feel like you are covering much ground (as compared to a road bike ride).
Dude, another week flew by way too quick. I can't believe it's almost February! Racing season is getting close. I just swapped teams yesterday. No one on my old team knows yet (outside of the prez), though half of my old team is on my new team anyways...
This past week I received an email which really got me thinking, as I've seen such a thing printed dozens of times the past few years. I receive a WebMD email 2-3x a week at work and this week I got one which mentioned how married people live a "happier" life than those not married. It got me thinking about people I know that fall into each category, especially those that are "still" single. I realized that some people who work hard, party hard and live life really hard, approach everything like a game that they have to win, and yet they win and they are never happy.
I wonder if they ever take that into consideration for these Marriage happiness studies. I'm thinking that some people who are still single, are single for a reason and most likely it has nothing to do with the marriage thing.
Whoa, now that it's gotten cold here, it's really sad to see all the homeless coming down into Suburban station. I easily can count a few dozen in my 3 block underground walk in the morning. Also it's obvious many more people are staying down there as the urine smell's gotten a lot worse. It's really sad that there's such an issue here, I've heard Philly's actually one of the worst cities on the East Coast for the amount of homeless people. Something like 3000 people at any one time. Most are pretty harmless and you don't ever feel threatened, though there's definitely a schizo or two who can be pretty darn scary.
OH one big word of advice, which sounds harsh at first, but if you think about it, it makes sense. NEVER give a homeless person money. Buy them food, give them clothes, but NEVER give them money. If you feel for them, donate to a homeless shelter, but never just give that needy hand money directly. I know this may sound inhumane, but I back in my non-profit days, a homeless shelter Exec. Director told me that exact statement above.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day (or two), teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lot longer. Something like that.
Oh and here's a conspiracy theory for dat azz. One of the high-rolling client's who come into my office and hang out every day (he's retired) posed this interesting theory a few days ago. What if the US finally realized that the war in the Middle East and the impending economic one with Venezula cannot be won Militarily and instead decided to do it economically? What if our gvt. opened up the strategic oil reserve, without anyone finding out? What if they started shorting millions of oil contracts to lower the price? What if they say were paying Qatar billions to ignore OPEC and keep pumping? No one would ever know and yet Iran would fold. Since Iran is supposedly founding the Iraq insurgency, then that would obviously die back b/c Iran would have it's own problems.
It's just this dude's crazy idea, but to me it was worth a few "what if" brain cells.
Alright, it's winter time and it's time for bed.
-bc
Warm thoughts, from Key West:
Dude, another week flew by way too quick. I can't believe it's almost February! Racing season is getting close. I just swapped teams yesterday. No one on my old team knows yet (outside of the prez), though half of my old team is on my new team anyways...
This past week I received an email which really got me thinking, as I've seen such a thing printed dozens of times the past few years. I receive a WebMD email 2-3x a week at work and this week I got one which mentioned how married people live a "happier" life than those not married. It got me thinking about people I know that fall into each category, especially those that are "still" single. I realized that some people who work hard, party hard and live life really hard, approach everything like a game that they have to win, and yet they win and they are never happy.
I wonder if they ever take that into consideration for these Marriage happiness studies. I'm thinking that some people who are still single, are single for a reason and most likely it has nothing to do with the marriage thing.
Whoa, now that it's gotten cold here, it's really sad to see all the homeless coming down into Suburban station. I easily can count a few dozen in my 3 block underground walk in the morning. Also it's obvious many more people are staying down there as the urine smell's gotten a lot worse. It's really sad that there's such an issue here, I've heard Philly's actually one of the worst cities on the East Coast for the amount of homeless people. Something like 3000 people at any one time. Most are pretty harmless and you don't ever feel threatened, though there's definitely a schizo or two who can be pretty darn scary.
OH one big word of advice, which sounds harsh at first, but if you think about it, it makes sense. NEVER give a homeless person money. Buy them food, give them clothes, but NEVER give them money. If you feel for them, donate to a homeless shelter, but never just give that needy hand money directly. I know this may sound inhumane, but I back in my non-profit days, a homeless shelter Exec. Director told me that exact statement above.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day (or two), teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lot longer. Something like that.
Oh and here's a conspiracy theory for dat azz. One of the high-rolling client's who come into my office and hang out every day (he's retired) posed this interesting theory a few days ago. What if the US finally realized that the war in the Middle East and the impending economic one with Venezula cannot be won Militarily and instead decided to do it economically? What if our gvt. opened up the strategic oil reserve, without anyone finding out? What if they started shorting millions of oil contracts to lower the price? What if they say were paying Qatar billions to ignore OPEC and keep pumping? No one would ever know and yet Iran would fold. Since Iran is supposedly founding the Iraq insurgency, then that would obviously die back b/c Iran would have it's own problems.
It's just this dude's crazy idea, but to me it was worth a few "what if" brain cells.
Alright, it's winter time and it's time for bed.
-bc
Warm thoughts, from Key West:
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Stiffness tests
Think your bike is stiff compared to others? See if it's on the list:
http://www.efbe.de/testergebnisse/enindex.php
MTB ride tomorrow. I hope it's worth it as everyone's rocking out tonight, but I'm staying home even though the mojo's been good this week.
Ride on,
-BC
http://www.efbe.de/testergebnisse/enindex.php
MTB ride tomorrow. I hope it's worth it as everyone's rocking out tonight, but I'm staying home even though the mojo's been good this week.
Ride on,
-BC
Monday, January 15, 2007
I'm a gym rat now
Only rode for 3 hours total the last few days, but easily put more than that in the gym. Hopefully I don't regret it if winter actually does show up.
Rocked out again with the Pepster, this time at McGillians for the Eagles game. We had a rock'n good time, you can't beat Woodchuck on tap, plus they had good beer for cheap by the pitcher. I stuck with the cider.
It was really a fun crowd and I think I met like 10 new friends by the end of the night. I also met some hottie from New Orleans, so I called Colin "the professor" (he's from Nawlons too) and told him to get his butt over to McGillians and meet probably the only other person from Nawlons next to him and Of course he ends up already knowing her. Strange how this city feels like Delaware once and while?!? Had one woodchuck too many and didn't make the Sunday mtb. ride, I bet Colin made it and made me look like a chump.
Had a fun day of painting and working on mixing some more music. I remembered where I had seen some DJ programs from a while back (TUCOWS.com) and downloaded the "MixMeister Express 6". The program is straight dope! You can just click and drag your music and goes through it and tells you what the bpm (beat per minute) is and so you can make your own mix by having the ends and the beginnings of tracks overlap so it's seamless (aka FLOWS). For instance, I took a Timo Maas track and laced it up with Billy Idol's dancing with myself (my 80's @ 120 remix) and it was rocking. What makes the software super dooooper sick is that you can take a track which is say, 140bpm and lace it with something which is 110 bpm and it will speed up or slow down the track so it's seamless. You don't even notice it, it's that good!
I'm all hyped up for tomorrow, crap it's been 3 days off work and I don't know what to do.
Ride on!
-BC
Rocked out again with the Pepster, this time at McGillians for the Eagles game. We had a rock'n good time, you can't beat Woodchuck on tap, plus they had good beer for cheap by the pitcher. I stuck with the cider.
It was really a fun crowd and I think I met like 10 new friends by the end of the night. I also met some hottie from New Orleans, so I called Colin "the professor" (he's from Nawlons too) and told him to get his butt over to McGillians and meet probably the only other person from Nawlons next to him and Of course he ends up already knowing her. Strange how this city feels like Delaware once and while?!? Had one woodchuck too many and didn't make the Sunday mtb. ride, I bet Colin made it and made me look like a chump.
Had a fun day of painting and working on mixing some more music. I remembered where I had seen some DJ programs from a while back (TUCOWS.com) and downloaded the "MixMeister Express 6". The program is straight dope! You can just click and drag your music and goes through it and tells you what the bpm (beat per minute) is and so you can make your own mix by having the ends and the beginnings of tracks overlap so it's seamless (aka FLOWS). For instance, I took a Timo Maas track and laced it up with Billy Idol's dancing with myself (my 80's @ 120 remix) and it was rocking. What makes the software super dooooper sick is that you can take a track which is say, 140bpm and lace it with something which is 110 bpm and it will speed up or slow down the track so it's seamless. You don't even notice it, it's that good!
I'm all hyped up for tomorrow, crap it's been 3 days off work and I don't know what to do.
Ride on!
-BC
Saturday, January 13, 2007
The Word of the Day boys and girls.
IS FLOW.
Life is simple as that, just go along with it or start it and make sure it doesn't stop.
Everything flows, but doesn't have to.
Cycling feels like flying when you flow and when you stop flowing you typically are flying off your bike...
Work isn't work, it's just having a good time when you flow.
The trees dance in the wind, instead of break, when they flow.
Birds gain altitude in the air when they flow.
DJ's are DJ's because they make it flow.
A paceline is only a paceline when it flows, if not it's a clusterphuk.
Sex is better for both when you flow.
Money's to be made in the market when you flow, go the opposite way and you learn the lesson soon enough.
A river's only a river if it flows meandering along. If it's not then it's an Army Corps of Engineer project.
A highway is only fast when everyone flows. One bad driver, fast or slow, and there's no flow.
A rap's no rhyme if the words don't flow.
Life's a lot easier if you just make your surroundings flow with you, if life ever seems hard, then something must not be flowing and you should correct it asap.
Hit up another warm January day for a ride today. Kept it short, just 2 hrs :-( ,and tackled some hills in Conshi and Gladwynn. Damn I love hills, they really tell you where you are at as far as fitness, and they can be a ton of fun when you flow up them.
Yay, I have the Fatboy Slim Essential Mix again. Nothing like hearing Funky Fresh 100 time in 4 minutes again.
Ride on!
-BC
Life is simple as that, just go along with it or start it and make sure it doesn't stop.
Everything flows, but doesn't have to.
Cycling feels like flying when you flow and when you stop flowing you typically are flying off your bike...
Work isn't work, it's just having a good time when you flow.
The trees dance in the wind, instead of break, when they flow.
Birds gain altitude in the air when they flow.
DJ's are DJ's because they make it flow.
A paceline is only a paceline when it flows, if not it's a clusterphuk.
Sex is better for both when you flow.
Money's to be made in the market when you flow, go the opposite way and you learn the lesson soon enough.
A river's only a river if it flows meandering along. If it's not then it's an Army Corps of Engineer project.
A highway is only fast when everyone flows. One bad driver, fast or slow, and there's no flow.
A rap's no rhyme if the words don't flow.
Life's a lot easier if you just make your surroundings flow with you, if life ever seems hard, then something must not be flowing and you should correct it asap.
Hit up another warm January day for a ride today. Kept it short, just 2 hrs :-( ,and tackled some hills in Conshi and Gladwynn. Damn I love hills, they really tell you where you are at as far as fitness, and they can be a ton of fun when you flow up them.
Yay, I have the Fatboy Slim Essential Mix again. Nothing like hearing Funky Fresh 100 time in 4 minutes again.
Ride on!
-BC
Sunday, January 07, 2007
LMAO, I forgot how funny TheOnion is
Check it out too if you haven't seen it in a while:
http://www.theonion.com/content/
They're having their 6 years of Bush, "A Celebration of Courage" tribute right now.
Funny stuff!
Let's see if I can get 2 posts in today so I can get bumped back into the "regular posters" list...
http://www.theonion.com/content/
They're having their 6 years of Bush, "A Celebration of Courage" tribute right now.
Funny stuff!
Let's see if I can get 2 posts in today so I can get bumped back into the "regular posters" list...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Happy 2 double 0 Seven!
WOW, we are years from that Y2K thing now aren't we? Remember when that's all people were talking about? It's amazing how simple our worries were back then as compared to now...
Word, the weather has been wicked good and I hope all you bike people out there are riding like it's your job these days! My legs were cooked from the gym this past weekend, but I sucked it up anyways and had awesome rides on both Saturday and Sunday. The mtb. ride on Sunday is now becoming more and more fun as we all get used to riding trails again. All the dudes I ride with at one point raced mtb's, but none of us had for at least 3 years when we decided about a month ago to start riding on Sundays. What a blast it's been! Wissashickon is just a sweet trail system, really mind blowing at how good it is considering it's smack dab in a city of 1 point something million people.
I have a new boss at work. He's a baddas, just like FatMarc. A cool dude, smoother than snoop dogg, but still commands a ton of respect. It should be another kick-ass year in Philly, I'm really looking forward to it.
Did nothing special for New Years Eve. The rain kept me from venturing out, plus my mom and stepdad are helping me re-do my kitchen and so I worked on that with them until 9pm, then cleaned up and hung out with the ladies from 3 doors up. They rocked out differently than most, but it was fun and the smack talked during the 1am Scrabble game would make the most veteran NBA player cringe at such harsh words of trash talk coming from the ladies mouths. It was fun and I hit the sack by 3, to get up too soon and start on the kitchen again. Pictures will be coming soon.
Hope y'all have a great 2007!
Don't forget to ride your bike.
-BC
Word, the weather has been wicked good and I hope all you bike people out there are riding like it's your job these days! My legs were cooked from the gym this past weekend, but I sucked it up anyways and had awesome rides on both Saturday and Sunday. The mtb. ride on Sunday is now becoming more and more fun as we all get used to riding trails again. All the dudes I ride with at one point raced mtb's, but none of us had for at least 3 years when we decided about a month ago to start riding on Sundays. What a blast it's been! Wissashickon is just a sweet trail system, really mind blowing at how good it is considering it's smack dab in a city of 1 point something million people.
I have a new boss at work. He's a baddas, just like FatMarc. A cool dude, smoother than snoop dogg, but still commands a ton of respect. It should be another kick-ass year in Philly, I'm really looking forward to it.
Did nothing special for New Years Eve. The rain kept me from venturing out, plus my mom and stepdad are helping me re-do my kitchen and so I worked on that with them until 9pm, then cleaned up and hung out with the ladies from 3 doors up. They rocked out differently than most, but it was fun and the smack talked during the 1am Scrabble game would make the most veteran NBA player cringe at such harsh words of trash talk coming from the ladies mouths. It was fun and I hit the sack by 3, to get up too soon and start on the kitchen again. Pictures will be coming soon.
Hope y'all have a great 2007!
Don't forget to ride your bike.
-BC
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