An excerpt from a recent e-mail I wrote, intentionally pretentious but completely serious:

"A sophisticated analysis might suggest that Rage used Sony, the very symbol of the corporate, political, economic machine they were raging against, to get the anti-machine message out to more people. In this sense, it's a guerilla tactic; you steal weapons from the very army you're fighting against, and use that army to defeat itself, enriching yourself in the process.  read more »

Yeah, that's me back there, first guy on the Colavita train, with one lap to go at Austin. It would be sweet if instead of watching the sprint and getting 5-10 all the time, I actually got something done. I should be psyched about top 10, but all I can really think about is all the things that go wrong on the last lap sometimes.  read more »

We're in Austin this week:

http://www.attcrit.com/

We checked out Lance's bike shop today. Pretty neat.

I should have more to say. It's been about 10 years since I've been to Austin, and I spent the winter training here in 1998. It's one of my favorite places. But sometimes bike racing is just airplane/host housing/bike race/host housing/airplane. It kinds of feels like that today.

If you haven't seen it already:

http://velonews.com/article/77753/time-s-eric-barlevav-wins-the-35th-annual-harlem-classic-in

My favorite part of those photos is me getting ready to put my hands up after leading Eric out when I realized he was going to win, and then having to put them back down to avoid not running him over.  read more »

I love these guys:

The A-Train Goes Old School

They say that converts make the biggest zealots. For a couple of guys who just discovered 'cross, you will not find more passionate fans of the sport.

The fact that they like me makes me wonder what's wrong with them.