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HEAT

Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth. It’s beautiful Susan, her hair sticky with gin, Our Lady of Wet Glass-Rings on the Album Cover, streaming with hatred in the heat as the record falls and the snake-band chords begin to [...]

Bitchslap!

Much has been written over the past couple of days about the relationship between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, as evidenced in this excellent summary from the BBC:

BBC SPORT | Other sport… | Cycling | Armstrong hits back at Contador

Lance Armstrong says his Astana team-mate Alberto Contador has “lots to learn” after the [...]

2009 Ride #30

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It’s really, really muggy this morning … yuck. The air is thick and it’s hard for this boy to breathe, but it still felt good to get outside, if only for a little while.

Stayed flat in Holladay and Murray. Now, shower (again), then down to Library Square with the girlie [...]

Poetry Friday

COMING TO THE MORNING

You make me remember all of the elements the sea remembering all of its waves

in each of the waves there was always a sky made of water and an eye that looked once

there was the shape of one mountain and a blood kinship with rain

and the air for [...]

It never ends, does it?

Di Luca suspended after positive doping test – Cycling – Yahoo! Sports

AIGLE, Switzerland (AP)—Cycling’s governing body suspended former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday after he tested positive for the banned blood-booster CERA.

The International Cycling Union told the Italian rider he was provisionally banned until his national federation can have a [...]

Jens

Tour de France: Jens Voigt has keenly negotiated the ups and downs of professional cycling – ESPN

BOURG-SAINT-MAURICE, France — Let’s pause and, for just a moment, put peloton politics and doping speculation and Contador versus Armstrong aside to celebrate the career of the most conscientious man in the business, Jens Voigt.

It was horrifying [...]

Ummmm … yeah.

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2009 Ride #29

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Felt better than yesterday, both in legs and lungs … the tailwind going up Emigration Canyon certainly helped on the climb when I made the turn and Pinecrest to head to Little Mountain summit, the full wind in the face put paid to my plans to finish the climb. Turned around, and [...]

Hincapie’s heartbreak

A lot has been written and Twittered about the events that eventually denied George Hincapie his second chance to wear the maillot jaune at the Tour de France.

If Hincapie had been able to hang with Sergui Ivanov, rather than finishing at the back of his breakaway chase group, then this whole point would be [...]

2009 Ride #28

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Doctor Cross may be able to easily drop me on a climb, but I can catch him on a descent without having to work too hard.

It was hot hot hot today. Wearing black jersey/shorts combo was probably not the wisest move, but the red made me feel like a ripe tomato. [...]