Mar

31

Go Coach Go!

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Cool thing: my coach was selected to go to Europe to race for six weeks.Funny thing: he's racing for the U-23 national team! I feel so old. I am not even close to being U-23... when I was 23 I was living in Charlottesville, dj'ing and honing my music snobbery at the radio station, and cursing the cyclists who were clogging the roads I took to the barn every day.

Mar

30

The Price of Fame

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I've had to go and take down or edit several previous posts. Sigh.

Mar

29

Made Me Laugh

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"This porridge is TOO COLD!"-Kelly Benefits' Johnny Sundt, to someone who was complaining..."The bums drive me nuts! I mean, you drive down any street in my neighborhood and you have to look out so you don't hit some dude hauling a trash can in a shopping cart with sleeping bags or whatever down the center of the street! But now I feel like a bitchy white chick. I mean, it's like, whoa I have to dodge the bum on my way to my MASSAGE. Poor me." -me ranting and raving about Oakland tonight whilst getting my, ahem, second massage of the week"You girls all made all your special mix bottles with your names all ...
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Mar

29

Shh

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Playing one's iTunes out loud at work should be BANNED. Get HEADPHONES.(note: perpetrators are the assistants to the non-recycling rich parents mentioned yesterday)(note #2: none of these folks are my co-workers. they are space-sharers but not co-workers)

Mar

28

Grr

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I find it ironic that people I know who have children are also the people I know who don't recycle.

Mar

27

The Store

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Spinach.Soy Milk.Chocolate Milk.Mushrooms.One Grapefruit.One Apple (of which I will probably have only one bite).Three Pints of Ben and Jerry's.This is my I-have-been-gone-for-eleven-days-and-there-is-nothing-in-the-fridge grocery store trip. Egads.

Mar

26

Home Again Home Again

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jiggedy jig, or something. Isn't that a nursery rhyme?Anyway, Sharon and I got up at 5:30 this morning and hit the road from Redlands/L.A. back home to San Francisco, thinking we were early enough to "avoid traffic." We thought wrong, but it wasn't so bad.At some point pre-coffee and pre-breakfast, we realized we needed gas. S.F. Mission Blvd sounded pleasantly Bay Area-like for a Southern California freeway exit, so that's the one we took. We were actually in search of Starbucks and gas but we quickly realized we didn't hit the right demographic for the former and opted to take care of the latter instead. A little civic packed to the gills and topped ...
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Mar

25

Yay Redlands!

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O.K.I just finished a really hard stage race! AND I finished in not-worst place! The team finished in 9th place overall, right up there for qualifying for a travel grant for the Bermuda Grand Prix at the end of the year.This was a really great race, one of my favourites. The courses were demanding and rewarding, the competition was top-notch, and our host family was absolutely amazing. So amazing that Sharon and I were like "oh, we'll just stay in Redlands for another night and drive home tomorrow, since it will be better for recovery and everything..."Good thing we didn't hit the road tonight, today's stage was super hard (all warnings about the full-gas ...
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Mar

23

Lazy

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We just did the infamous Oak Glenn stage of the Redlands Classic. It was pretty awesome. Really awesome.I am lying in bed at 4:30 in the afternoon trying to regain my usual spunky chattiness but it's taking me a while.So, no pdf's of the stage profile or statistics of climbing and miles and watts and kilojoules with which to impress you. Acquiring such details requires energy that I simply don't have.But, the gist:-our own Martina P. took the second of two intermediate sprints!-no crashes (a FIRST for this NRC season)!-gorgeous views of the San Bernadino mountains-rumor has it that there is a new ...
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Mar

23

Podium Girl

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We cheated a bit, and brought our own podium girls... Our host sister, Caty (right) and her friend Island are the podium girls for the race this weekend! The guys are psyched to finally have hot podium girls after Tour of California's doozies.
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