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CHARITY
Why are so many bike rides and races associated with a charity?  The hard truth:  being associated with a charity greases the government gears.  It all gets easier. Promoting is still very hard work. Without the promoter’s charitable heart nothing would happen. (Jeff promotes CBR) (Matt promotes OverTheHump and 50MileRide) (Jon, Andy, Jake and their..
LOTOJA TRAINING RIDE #5 – CHRYSTAL LAKE
The Route: GMR to Chrystal Lake and back. Goals:  test food choices, saddle height, gearing, get Nate’s take. It hurts.  We hammered up GMR (2300′) and now we are hammering up to Chrystal Lake (4000′).  It’s my first time to the lake.  The ProEco’s (Chris, Slayer and Jerry) are pulling away.  I’m in full diesel..
HOW TO BUILD A TEAM – GETTING STARTED
Todd, I want to build up ______ cycling… how do I do that?  It’s a good question, and I get it a lot, but it’s not the place to start.  The fundamental questions are:  Who you are? and Where do you want to go?  Here’s a snap shot of a conversation with my friend who..
DRIVEN BY PAIN
Everything we make and do is driven by pain.  If we’re feelin’ pain, we want eliminate it so we create something way better… turning pain into gain. Tired of ill-fitting, ugly kits… we searched out the best Italian fabrics and created beautiful cycling gear. Frustrated by a giant bag with no organization… we developed the..
JUST KIDDING
Want to change up your riding?  Grab your mountain bike, head out with the high school kids.  Be prepared to stop and talk and size up gnarly stuff.  That’s how kids ride.  Just for fun. That’s what we did tonight. We just rode. No agenda, no plan. We stopped above some crazy steep drops, then..
RUSSIAN MISSILE OBLITERATES PELOTON
I can’t really compare the attacks to anybody else I’ve ridden with.  They are violent and vicious.  But lots of guys can pedal ferociously.  They are extremely ambitious,  miles from the finish line.  Nothing original there, really.  The thing about Sasha’s attacks is the resemblance to inter-continental ballistic missiles. Imagine those Space Shuttle videos from..
SLEEP MORE, LOSE MORE
My sleeping schedule is off… I’ve stopped reading and picked up binge watching at night.  First MadMen then Shane said, Dad you gotta watch Designated Survivor.  It’s always fun to watch a show together… and since he and Abbey are home for the summer… well, here I am… it’s late and I’m getting fatter, because..
THE 3 N’S OF SELLING
If you’re knowledgeable, nice and never frustrated… you’ll sell a lot of stuff. The goal isn’t to sell a lot of stuff… it’s to help people out.
LOW-TO-JAW TRAINING RIDE #4
Today I had two goals:  sort out my saddle and long steady climbing… and hang out with Hartono before he moves back to Indonesia – hanging out is not a goal, it’s too important.  We’d be checking those boxes down on Palomar – apparently rated the #10 most difficult climb in California (it’s not that..
MAYBE WE’RE ONTO SOMETHING?
Just two observations about today’s gripping Tour de France stage:  SKY dominated the stage, while wearing their new white jerseys.  Today’s stage was awesome, because it was only 100k. Are we onto something? TMWC went to white jersey this year. We started a series of 100k bike races called HUNKR.
THE RE-RIDE
Whether you ride or drive to the ride or race, on the way home you have the re-ride. Â This is usually much better than the actual ride: more animated, more exagerrated. Â Somehow it always reminds me of the old black and white movies where the couple lie in bed smoking, reliving the heat and passion..
