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goatspeak: June 2014
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. Saturday, june 28, 2014: western suburbs, chicago, illinois. Saturday, June 28, 2014: western suburbs, Chicago, Illinois. One of my secret pleasures is jumping in on an out-of-town group ride. Meaning that I'm from out-of-town, and I'm jumping in on someone else's group ride. Yay for the internet. (How did anyone find anything in the pre-internet age? The modern suburb is full of curvy subdivisions built around uninspiring cul-de-sacs and populated with ticky-tacky. The architect...
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goatspeak: February 2014
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Monday, February 24, 2014. Southern x 2014 race report/review. 1) Weather. Perfect. Both for the race on Saturday and the RHR-South team gap ride Sunday morning. Worth the trip just to warm my skin in the seventy degree sunshine. Great company. And those Georgia mountains are just so awesome.the paved roads, the dirt roads, the whole works. Would really like to spend more time playing in those woods. Atop Woody Gap Sunday morning. Wonderful. Managed 5th in the old guy class. Yay for mid-life? Matters....
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goatspeak: 2014 trans-sylvania epic, stage three*
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014. 2014 trans-sylvania epic, stage three*. I woke up thinking that’s when these things usually end. I’ve done a couple of four-day stages races. One of them twice. But the most we usually get is three. But I woke up this morning thinking ok, well, stage three…after today, four more to go. Not even half done. Today we rode enduro. What is endure, you ask? Well, let’s start with the race profile. Lots of up and down. Only the down mattered today. And, for me at least, can be terrifying.
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goatspeak: 2014 trans-sylvania epic, stage 7
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014. 2014 trans-sylvania epic, stage 7. In Down the River. Ed Abbey publishes perhaps the most entertaining book review I've ever read. And he didn't write it. His friend Dave did. The book reviewed was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Anyway, here's Dave. And he's reviewing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This here book Zen and the Art of. He clearly isn't using the word "sick" like the enduro riders were during TSE. Or Anthony Clark. He gives us tips on setting ...
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goatspeak: 2014 trans-sylvania epic, stage 6
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Friday, May 30, 2014. 2014 trans-sylvania epic, stage 6. Yay It finally came together. Third in the 40 . Aaron said I wasn't smiling. I thought I was smiling. I was happy, anyway. Fun day today. Forty some miles. Lots of trail. Some pretty rough trail, but I rode it ok. Not awesome, but ok. And I had a lot of fun, so an all-around cool day. Was craving a salty snack today like you wouldn't believe. Won some cool socks from Freeze Thaw Cycles in State College. We're praying for you. Give him our best.
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goatspeak: saturday, june 28, 2014: western suburbs, chicago, illinois
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. Saturday, june 28, 2014: western suburbs, chicago, illinois. Saturday, June 28, 2014: western suburbs, Chicago, Illinois. One of my secret pleasures is jumping in on an out-of-town group ride. Meaning that I'm from out-of-town, and I'm jumping in on someone else's group ride. Yay for the internet. (How did anyone find anything in the pre-internet age? The modern suburb is full of curvy subdivisions built around uninspiring cul-de-sacs and populated with ticky-tacky. The architect...
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goatspeak: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Wed and thurs, july 2 and 3, 2014: glacier national park. Wednesday and Thursday, July 2 and 3, 2014: Glacier National Park. Glacier Nat'l Park is essentially a north-south mountain range with highways up either side and several roads that run up the drainages. Here you can see I was camped at one and rode to another.and back. Most of the same terrain on this ride.but instead went up the Many Glacier drainage, which was very pretty, by the way, and highly recommended. From Minneap...
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goatspeak: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. My favorite "business" books. Making a quantum-leap-like departure from the usual goatspeak fare, I'm going to post something vaguely related to what I do for a living.which is to say the thing that I do that allows me to pay the bills and allows me to live. Or at least live the life I'm living. Yes, indeed. Perhaps the least sexy discipline in the academy. Management. But I don't really think of myself as a management scholar. And now I work in a business school. I'm pa...
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goatspeak: sunday, june 29, 2014: the "judson," chicago, illinois
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Saturday, July 5, 2014. Sunday, june 29, 2014: the "judson," chicago, illinois. Sunday, June 29, 2014: The "Judson," Chicago, Illinois. Yes, it's flat. No wise cracks necessary. If your search for a group ride in Chicago happens to lead you to chicagobikeracing.com, you will see "Judson" listed as starting at 7:30 am, that the ride starts at Judson and Greenleaf, and this peculiar note:. The pace stayed high and the mood animated for 30 miles or so, but somewhere on the route back I suppose folks just go...
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goatspeak: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Bike tip of the day. There is often a right way and a wrong way to do things. In cycling (as in so much of life), it's not always obvious what the reasons for the right way are. In fact, I'm not sure it's even appropriate to ask. Why. Isn't it enough, for instance, to know that Merckx did it that way? But it is appropriate to ask what. And so here's your tip of the day:. Can you tell me which pictures below depict properly positioned skewers? What do you think? Do you have it?
