Racing...again

Finally got my first racing miles of the year on my legs yesterday evening. Rode the world famous, Tuesday night training series at El Dorado Park in Long Beach, California. Achieved my standard goals for the first race of the season: (1) Stay upright and (2) Don't get dropped. Number 1 is not as easy to achieve as it sounds. Unfortunately a clubmate didn't stay upright as the pack entered the last turn. Fortunately, for him, his injuries are relatively minor, but, as I understand it, quite painful.

So now it's time to get a bit more serious about achieving my goal of a 40 Km time trial in less than 60 minutes (my personal hour record).

Cycling and Leg Hair

Some of the responses to a leg shaving question on a cycling forum are just way too funny.

Heras suspended and stripped of Vuelta title

I can't believe that there is so much pressure to cheat (yes, cheat) in professional cycling. Here is another rider that I want to believe is innocent but I keep having a harder and harder time believing their denials. Roberto Heras rode a great Vuelta, but was it a drug-aided win?

As I said earlier, we have to get to the real root cause of the problem by eliminating the motivation to take performance enhancing drugs. Deterrence through drug testing is obviously not enough. In fact, we need to create an environment where athletes are motivated to be clean -- not motivated to figure out how to cheat.

Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow Split

Well, for some reason this took me by surprise. I am interested because I am a fan of both, but that's as far as it goes -- interested. However, there is some pretty harsh stuff on the web, here and here.

Anyway, I hope that their futures apart from each other go well.